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[oneroom]

Does anybody out there quilt? I'm not making a quilt, per se, but I am sewing some plaid flannel onto the back of a lightweight wool to make a blanket. I thought I might do some "quilting" on it - that is, sew designs through the whole thing to help it stick to itself. I don't know if this is clever or a terrible, terrible idea. I also don't know how to choose or make a design.

Edited: Simple embroidery. That's the solution. I'm doing swirls.

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[oneroom.livejournal.com]

Omigod, do you have a Kitchenaid mixer? That is the one reason I would ever get married - just to get the Kitchenaid mixer.

Do you know about those vacuum packed soups? They aren't very good, but they aren't very bad, and if you add some fresh herbs, they pass for decent quick dinner. You should grab some for evenings after days of 90 degree farm work. For serious.

And lordy I would never call you a weenie. I am from the land of the lotus eaters and you pick up poop in an average day. The day I actually get off the couch on a ninety degree day to go care for a farm animal is the day I get to call you a weenie. Even if you do end up getting a sock machine. :)

[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the help. Usually, though, instead of buying lots of packaged stuff, I try to cook from scratch in quantity, and then refrigerate and freeze portions for later meals. So I can pull out and defrost a slice of meatloaf from the freezer, and warm up some carrot soup, and slice a cucumber, and voila, lunch. But sometimes that fridge is bare bare bare and I wish I had anything, even a vacuum packed soup.

To the grocery I go.

P.S. I bought the Kitchenaid for myself. Fuck some men.

[oneroom.livejournal.com]

I am all about the homemade and in the freezer dinners - I'm just saying I also like the back up of the store bought, every once in awhile. The other night I was so tired-and-hungry I ate a can of tuna fish. Plain. I forced myself to actually put it in a can and add salt and pepper, just to make it a little less pathetic.

PS - Re: the Kitchenaid, you're my hero.