I was anxious to get the sauce tomato plants planted. Today I cleaned up the raised bed for them, planted them, and applied kraft paper mulch.
I think next year I'll grow about half as many. This year is an experiment to see which varieties do better, and whether the home-saved Roma VF seeds give a good crop. I get the drip irrigation installed next.
Today I trimmed off the excess batting and backing, sewed together the binding and sewed on the binding. After washing, here is the quilt. It's about seven feet by seven feet, good for a queen size bed.
No garden today. I had to be around for contractors and fuss over sick Rufus. He seems to be improving.
I used the indoor time to finish the quilting for the batik disappearing nine patch quilt,
This is a description of how a disappearing nine patch works.
Here is the actual traditional nine patch quilt that I finished earlier this year.
Back to the current project, I opted for the modern quilting concept of sewing parallel lines.
I think parallel lines are a good choice for this modern, geometric quilt with colorful fabrics. It can be tedious, sewing lines repeatedly. I used painters' tape to help me keep the lines mostly straight.
I finished all of the quilting.
Now I need to trim off the excess batting and backing, nice and even with the quilt top, then sew on the binding which makes a nice border and edge for the quilt. I chose plain black cotton fabric, which I think will make kind of an elegant binding.
I did not prewash the fabric. When it is washed, I hope the washing and drying will give it a kind of crinkly quilted look. Sometimes it works.
I made Betty's (Betty Crocker) Chocolate Chip cookies today. We had pecans so I used those instead of walnuts. The chips were something like 65% cacao.
Actually, I did like the last batch where I used chopped peanuts instead of walnuts. They are all good.
My oven needs two or three minute more than the recipes state.
The bag of flour had recipe for lemon cookies. Maybe those are next.
This is the Hardy Chicago fig tree that I gave a major workover in mid March. The final result looked like this:
I wondered if I killed it. Now most, or all, of the branches have big swelling buds.
Give it a few weeks. Fig trees are very resilient. Assuming these branches continue growing, they should be tipped at about a foot, and then at another foot. This variety bears on new growth, so maybe...
