It's July 1!

I HELD STRONG!!!

I did not break down at 11:59 last night and fling myself into the laceweight, but it was a close thing. The yearning for a lace scarf was very tough to resist, but already having 4 lace projects on the needles made it a bit easier.

This morning bright & early I closed my eyes and reached into the Project of the Month bin and groped around until I had a bag that didn't contain yarn--no sense blowing my WIP marathon on the first day--and I pulled out this:
Eight white napkins that I bought quite some time ago, intending to embroider roses on them to match our dishes--which of course hadn't happened. Since I have to change the sewing machine to embroidery, and I was pathetically close to finishing my last sewing project, I buckled down and finished a cotton pique jumpsuit for wearing around the yard. The pique is a bit heavier than I would have hoped, but it is nice & loose for hot summer days and.....IT HAS POCKETS!!! I love pockets--probably because women's clothes so rarely have them. I suppose the women's clothing industry must keep pace with the women's boot industry, which produces boots that can actually get wet with the frequency of Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets. But I digress...

Once that was done, I could set up the machine for embroidery and I just finished the first napkinI'm going to do 4 in this slate blue--which matches the dishes nicely & accents the placemats--then 4 in navy blue to match the placemats. As soon as I go get some navy blue thread. Honestly, it looks like I own all the thread it is possible to own, and I would have sworn up and down there wouldn't be a color of machine embroidery thread that I didn't have, but I seem to not have anything remotely close to navy. I do, inexplicably, have 37 shades of "gold." which is not even slightly helpful at this point. Blast.

The July "Soup Night" is coming up in a couple weeks, and instead of serving soup I decided we'd hose a zucchini cookoff--which might mean that we are spending the evening alone--and I wanted to have prizes to hand out for the best dishes, so...
I was thinking of "Zucchini....the fruitcake of summer," but I'm not sure everyone would get that. I have 3 towels & thought I'd have prizes for the top 3, so technically I could put the same thing on all 3. Not too creative, but easy. Another thought was, "I don't have too much zucchini, I have too few neighbors." Thoughts?

Theo was thrilled and spent most of the day snoozing in the sewing room, and I even did a little knitting, starting the edging for the blue & white blanket--which I was saving up as an "almost done" project to give me a firm boost into the WIP marathon--and ripped it out. I started to crochet a border, ripped it back, started 3 different widths of garter stitch edging, ripped them back, and have now decided that maybe I should start with a different project
and frankly at this rate, Luna Moth is a whole lot closer to being finished than that [bleep] blanket...

Comments

RobinH said…
Y'know, back when you started talking about how excited you were about the first zucchini of summer, I thought, 'should I say something?'. But then I thought, 'no, Toni clearly *really* likes zucchini, and I don't want to be all negative'.

See, here it is. You plant one zucchini plant. Unlike every other garden vegetable, you get way more than you planted. Then each plant produces seventy-bazillion zucchini. Which are seriously *stealthy*- one day you pick forty-seven teeny tasty zucchini, and *swear* you got them all, and the next day you have three more that are the size of Hondas.

This is how my mother found out that you cannot substitute zucchini for the pasta in lasagna--at least not without mass revolt in the ranks. Also that zucchini bread is tasty for the first seven thousand loaves, but your family starts to turn pale green at the thought by mid-July.
July 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM
Mandy said…
The blanket will get finished eventually. It's time has not yet come......
Those napkins will be beautiful. How nice to have two sets of four. The slightly different colourways will even look good together if you happen to suddenly need eight napkins...
July 2, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Daniele said…
Okay now, isn't it technically "cheating" to "feel around in the bag and find something without yarn." ;) he he

As for having the most embroidery thread, I challenge thee to a duel!

Loving the blue roses - and the Zucchini language is perfect! I totally get it!

OH! And Luna Moth! Can't wait to see it finished!!
July 3, 2009 at 4:33 AM
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