I have done some stitching this week, but no quilting. None. There were a couple of days I didn't even feel like going up to my sewing space. I just felt I needed to be preparing my home somehow, I'm not even sure how, but I feel so unprepared if we have to stay home for another month to stop this virus. My quilting mojo has disappeared, or maybe it has just been temporarily replaced by things that seem to be a little more necessary right now. I hope that's it and that all this will be behind us soon. So instead of sewing this week, I've been making clothing for little boys. Since the grands are living with us now, or next door as Hubby calls it, I see a lot more of the boys every day and I have noticed that neither one of them have clothes that fit. Both boys are small for their age and their jeans are about five inches too long. We had some exceptionally warm days this week, so instead of risking a trip to a store, I remade a pair of my shorts. I don't like the waist band, but there wasn't enough fabric in the shorts to make another band.
I also made some face masks, cloth toilet wipes. and cloth napkins even though paper napkins are the only paper products I've seen in stores in the last couple of weeks. I'd like to think I'll never need the toilet wipes, but the local Dollar General has to have police escorts for the toilet paper delivery. I don't know how other people know when the delivery is, but I need to find out before we are down to our last roll. We had heard that the Dallas stores are so depleted of groceries that people are coming here to shop, but I didn't really believe that rumor until Hubby went to the store a few days ago and saw some people who he said were obviously from North Dallas. If they thought there would be toilet paper, water, or yeast on the shelves, they made a long trip for nothing.
Speaking of yeast, I found a jar of yeast in my refrigerator that expired April 2019, but it seems to be good. I decided to try making a mother yeast starter with a little of it and had one failure I had to dump out. I started another and made one loaf Friday. The bread tasted a little different than that made with dried yeast and the texture was a little tough like sourdough, but it wasn't bad. Definitely not that tangy, sour taste like sourdough. I'll make a loaf today that will be the real test of the starter.
Okay, on to the sewing reports. I used some fabric making the cloths and masks. No fabric out of the stash for the shorts.
Like I said above, there were a couple of days I didn't even go into my sewing space, so my sewing time took a hit this week.
I hope all of you are staying safe, washing your hands a lot, and keeping your distance. Who knew that we would be saying "I wouldn't touch that with aten six foot pole would ever been mandatory?
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I also made some face masks, cloth toilet wipes. and cloth napkins even though paper napkins are the only paper products I've seen in stores in the last couple of weeks. I'd like to think I'll never need the toilet wipes, but the local Dollar General has to have police escorts for the toilet paper delivery. I don't know how other people know when the delivery is, but I need to find out before we are down to our last roll. We had heard that the Dallas stores are so depleted of groceries that people are coming here to shop, but I didn't really believe that rumor until Hubby went to the store a few days ago and saw some people who he said were obviously from North Dallas. If they thought there would be toilet paper, water, or yeast on the shelves, they made a long trip for nothing.
Speaking of yeast, I found a jar of yeast in my refrigerator that expired April 2019, but it seems to be good. I decided to try making a mother yeast starter with a little of it and had one failure I had to dump out. I started another and made one loaf Friday. The bread tasted a little different than that made with dried yeast and the texture was a little tough like sourdough, but it wasn't bad. Definitely not that tangy, sour taste like sourdough. I'll make a loaf today that will be the real test of the starter.
Okay, on to the sewing reports. I used some fabric making the cloths and masks. No fabric out of the stash for the shorts.
Like I said above, there were a couple of days I didn't even go into my sewing space, so my sewing time took a hit this week.
I hope all of you are staying safe, washing your hands a lot, and keeping your distance. Who knew that we would be saying "I wouldn't touch that with a
I pretty much lost my mojo up till about last Thursday. I think it just took a bit of time to get my head around what was happening and adjust to the new normal. I'm just hoping this isn't the new normal for long.
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