Placemats

It’s a beautiful day today, but not a very good morning.  Have the vertigo happening.  Will need to rest for a while before I go to the Shack today.  I did get my chicken in the crockpot.  Hopefully, it will be finished before I head to the Shack.  I hate to leave the crockpot on when I am going because of Curious Penny.  I worry she will hurt herself.

The chicken sure tasted good.  Yes, it was finished before I went to the Shack and I had it for supper.  Yesterday was Friday and I had fish.

Spent the past couple of afternoons working on the placemats.  I now have finished mine and will be finishing Jana’s.  I just have to put the binding on hers.  I hate to do binding!

Jana’s placemats are finished.

My Placemat (I made four)

Jana's Placemat (I made four)

The tops of these placemats look crooked.  I assure you they are not.  I guess it is the way I stuck them on the wall hanging and direction in which I took the picture.  I definitely have to learn to do better.

These past couple of weeks have been busy but I sure would like to go shopping, if only to the grocery store.  As you can tell from my blogs, I have been doing a lot of quilting and have plans to do quite a bit more.  I am also watching a weekly video that is doing a “community quilt.”  It’s a lot of fun since it is one I haven’t done before, or seen.  I have downloaded instructions on several quilts that I would like to try.   I have plenty of fabric.  What I don’t have I can order online.  As for binding, I would really like to learn the secret of how to do it correctly.  I have watched several videos, but I am still struggling. 

I have been doing quite a bit of reading – getting caught up on my large collection of books.  I am also getting caught up with some television shows that I recorded.  I ride around the yard (both front and back) on my golf cart to check the trees and bushes we planted.  Sat on the patio a couple of evenings.  Gee, my life sounds exciting, but it’s better than the alternative.  I attend Mass “in Cincinnati” at either St. Peter in Chains Cathedral or St. Jude’s.  St. Patrick’s, where I attend Mass in Phenix City, announced on their bulletin that they would be live streaming Mass on Facebook.  However, I cannot find a link so I will continue to go to Mass in Cincinnati.

Renea picked up some groceries for me from Winn Dixie.  Monday night I went to Kevin and Renea’s for supper – Kevin fixed LaRosa pizza.  Yumm!  Tuesday night I went to Kevin and Renea’s for supper – Kevin fixed Tacos.  Yumm!  Tonight I will be staying home.  I really appreciate it when they fix me a meal.  I find it hard to cook for one. 

Monday I spent the afternoon at the She Shack.  I embroidered the first two days of Christmas.  I found a pattern for the twelve days of Christmas.  I will be making a wall hanging.  I like the way they are turning out.  I am embroidering each day on a ten inch square of white.  I will trim them, add sashing, batting and backing.  I have everything I need.  I am also making another set of placemats for me using The Courthouse Steps pattern.  After this I have two quilts I plan to make.  I have the patterns and everything except the backing.  I am trying to make good use of my time.  It seems we have another thirty days to stay home.  I do hope to get outside and weed my azalea bushes.

Yesterday we had some rain.  They were predicting that we would have severe storms and possible tornadoes.  Our area was lucky.  We had some rain.  However, south and east of us there were several tornadoes.