Yesterday was sunny and hot, and so muggy that you sweated sitting perfectly still. I worked in the flower beds for a literally hot minute, planting some flower tubers my daughter-in-law gave me - hosta, balloon flowers, crocosmia, and columbine.
Granddaughters 1 and 3 came over mid-morning. #1 worked on her quilt while #3 piddled with fabric and paint.
#1's quilt is going to be so heavy she won't be able to roll over in bed. She used a variety of prints and solids for the top, a spongy fleece-y batting, and minky for the backing, cutting it all in 10" blocks, intending to sew them together with the joining seams exposed on top. Although she used the walking foot for the sewing, the quilt sandwich did not want to go through the machine; the minky more or less just wiggled when the feed dogs moved. We tried putting a sheet of paper under the minky, and the sandwich buzzed right through the machine, but that left bits of paper in the minky (not to mention the waste of good paper). We tried Press & Seal under the minky, but it was a no-go, as it wanted to stick to the machine. Lengthening the stitch length to 4mm, lowering the tension to 3, and "helping" the sandwich through the machine was the answer. By the end of the day, she'd quilted all of the blocks and squared them. Today, she'll start sewing them together.
The skies were clear at sunset, but a couple of hours later, it started to thunder, and lightning flashes were nearly non-stop. It rained heavily during the night, and some of the roads flooded. Farmers and gardeners seriously need a break from all this rain.
Today, I need to go to the grocery store. There's a pot-luck dinner/reunion of Nanny's family this weekend. Everybody's supposed to bring a dish, and I have nothing to cook.
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