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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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[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

I'd liken it more to my Kitchen Aid mixer, but that's just b/c I am uppity. ;)

Seriously. I sometimes get so wrapped up in my ridiculous DIY lifestyle, where instead of just buying a damned sweater I do things like shearing, skirting, picking, carding, spinning and knitting it. All by hand. And usually it makes me so happy to do it, and gives me such energy I cannot even tell you. But then I have days like today where I really wanted a bowl of creamy carrot-potato-dill soup and a nice hunk of zucchini bread, but after a long day of physical labor in the sun in the upper 90s w/ near 100% humidity, instead of going out to pick my onions and carrots and dill, and shredding zucchini and mixing up the bread, I came home and showered and, in spite of my gnawing hunger, passed out for like 5 hours. So I figure, I can get a sock knitting machine and not feel bad about it, especially if I bred the animal and fed and pooper-scooped etc etc for its entire life and sheared it myself, and ain't nobody from Seattle gonna call me a weenie for it. ;)

[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.