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The tweenies

I’m sort of inbetween again. I’ve got some ideas perking around in my head but nothing that I’m ready to start on quite yet. Or is it just the heat? I guess I can’t use that excuse really since last night, in a desperate act to be sewing something I made curtains for the living room. And gentle reader, I’m here to tell you in oh so not humble terms that I not only serged the top and bottom edges but I actually blind hemmed them on my sewing machine. Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.

These already come with a good dose of virtue since I bought the fabric for like a dollar or two a yard tops in NYC. Ralph Lauren fabric baby. Oh yeah. I’m enjoying the moment while it lasts!.

Getting back to the heat for a moment, it sure is hot. Left the cellar door open for the cats, but of course an open door holds no blipping appeal for any self-respecting cat. We already knew that.

And on a quilting note, my quilt Shine will be off to Vermont tomorrow for the Vermont Quilt Festival. The slides turned out quite respectable. I was going to shoot another quilt but lighting things when it’s this hot? I think not.

I had made some fabric purchases from Hancock’s Memorial Day sale and well, it’s just fabulous. One was a set of 10 yard pieces of batiks. $2.50 a yard. These have gold over printing which is fine. I can’t decide which I like better on some, the front or the back. In any case a stack of new fabric is always good for a) making you put away some of the old I mean “aged” fabric so the rest will fit, and b) getting the juices going.

Finally two interesting food-related links.

The first from Fortune “I guess it’s the iced coffee that makes me perky not the heat” Elkins: a study that shows that food odors in the car impacts driver behavior.

And finally an interview of Eric Ripert, chef at Le Bernadin. When asked to name his guilty pleasure:

Guilty pleasure: Eating dark chocolate. I do it every day, a few times a day. I am the nightmare of the pastry chefs. I steal from them all the time. And I always have chocolate in the house.

Amen.