Fabric Explosion

I sew a lot during the winter. Mostly clothes for my Victorian collection of clothes. This leaves me with several bags of scraps. I divide them up by colors, and put them aside for something. I never know what, but I know they'll come in handy for something. For some reason, I have the Depression Era mentality.
I was going through my fabric stash, and realized I could make a nice blanket as a gift for one of our neighbors. She is older, and is always cold. A nice warm lap quilt should do the trick. The best part of it is, she is my sewing buddy. She has taught me more things about sewing than I could ever learn elsewhere. She went to school for sewing back in the 1920's. Her knowledge is something I cherish.
The scraps are divided, and now I will cut them into squares to make the quilt. I know she will love it.

Cabin Fever

Cabin fever has long set in. We are tired of snow. We are tired of white. We are elated on days where it warms up to the 40's because the snow starts to melt. Dripping can be a beautiful sound.
During the next few weeks, we will begin looking at the seed catalogs again, and actually get down to ordering them. Even though we save seeds, we still wind up buying some.
This year, we are trying a couple of new varities of tomatoes from Johnny's Selected Seeds. We like the looks and the description of the Striped Cavern, and the Japanese Black Trifele. With the Japanese Black Trifele, you can hollow them out like a bell pepper and make stuffed tomatotes. My mouth is watering as I think of all the delicious dishes, sauces and salsas that I can make using these tomatoes.