Picked peaches and apricots yesterday. Today I dried the apricots and started peach wine. Lest I forget, this is the recipe for this batch of wine… 6lbs peaches after pitting (skins on, smashed with a potato smasher), 10lbs sugar, 2.2 gallons DI water, 5 campden tablets, 3.75 tsp acid blend, 2.5 tsp pectin enzymes, 0.5 tsp tannins, 1.25 tsp yeast enzymes, 1 pkg wine yeast.

Apricots on drying racks.

Peaches come from a can…

 

Infusible ink is fun. Just playing around with it. I think I’ll make a set of these towels.

Infusible Ink, Polyester.

Fuzzy Cluckers.

 

Finished a few more blocks. The blocks are just placed next to each other, but you get the idea of what it will look like. One more full column and then a border and I’ll call this quilt top done. But for now, I think I’m going to take a sewing break for a week or so.

Quilt pieces, cotton.

Stormy skies.

Guess what I did today! You got that right, I worked on the quilt. 18 more pieces done. An end is in sight. Hurray! 

Quilt Pieces, Cotton.

Shadow bridge.

 

Finished 20 more 3.5 inch pieces. Current status: 47% of the quilt blocks are made. Almost halfway there! In other news, I saw a post today that it took someone a year to finish this same quilt. I totally understand. 

Quilt Pieces, Cotton

Summertime.

Only several more rows to go… ugh. 

Quilt Pieces, Cotton. 

Thin leaf huckleberries.

 

6 miles & 1300 gain biking today. Plus some quilt work. 

Quilt Pieces, Cotton.

Mountain Bike Views.

 

Getting some quilt work in this week.

Quilt Pieces, Cotton.

Damn.

 

Two more done, twenty gazillion more to go. Perfect time to run out of thread. 

Quilted Squares, cotton.

Sunny flowers.

 

Making some head way with the current quilt. I cut pieces for the first two rows and made a few blocks.

Quilt squares, cotton.

Dahlias in bloom.

 

Just a little birdie today.

Brown Creeper, Watercolor on paper.

Roses in bloom.

 

I’m not falling down the make your own clothes rabbit hole, I promise. It’s just that I really, really liked this material when I was at the store… so anyways, for todays craft… I made the shirt I’m wearing. It’s rad. 

Shirt, silk.

Oh deer.

 

Some planets I recently viewed in my telescope. 

Mars. Watercolor on paper.

Jupiter. Watercolor on paper.

Saturn. Watercolor on paper.

Such a lovely garden.