More vegetables and a quilt . . .

I took the time to photograph my vegetable share this week -- red kale, romaine lettuce, spinach, kohlrabi, zucchini, radish and buckwheat sprouts and garlic. Next week I will start getting fruit and flowers as well as vegetables. I love the taste and smell of fruit that has a chance to get ripe on the tree or vine. I will have to use up the rhubarb in my garden while I wait for my fruit shares to start.

I also got my first package in the quilt block of the month program that I joined. I ordered it from Keepsake Quilting. I need to felt the wool and then I can start assembling the first block. I am pleased with the colors. The pieces are blanket stitched onto the background and will form a full size bed quilt when it is completed. I can either put it in the sewing room/spare bedroom or add more fabric around the edges to make a Queen sized quilt and put it on my bed.

Still Life with Vegetables

Two versions of my vegetable share this week. The real vegetables with red leaf lettuce, garlic scapes, sage, zucchini, radishes, sugar snap peas, kohlrabi, strawberries, rainbow swiss chard, and tomato puree. A quilt version with strawberries, radishes, squash, peppers, eggplant, tomato, and carrots.
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I created the quilt using EQ6 tonight while waiting for my daughter's karate class to end. I am not completely satisfied with the quilt but I was limited by the blocks in the library and I only had time to play with one layout.

This is a short entry. I sat down and started to learn how to use electric quilt this evening. So far I have created a simple quilt. It was very easy to do, with practice, I should be able to use other patterns and color combinations to create anything I want.

Dinner tonight was beef with barbeque sauce, cabbage and radish slaw, and scallion biscuits. I made potato/corn chowder for lunch tomorrow and a buttermilk/scallion salad dressing. Tomorrow night, tandori chicken, roasted potatoes and tomato/cucumber salad.