This week I made a York Apron.
This is from fabric that I recently purchased at a fundraiser sale at the Costume Museum of Canada in Winnipeg (this is just the start of sewing with the fabric I purchased - great deals!). This one is a quilting cotton.
The apron has a nice cross-back. All the edges are trimmed with bias binding (made from some green cotton I was given). I changed the pattern a bit - I made the front top a bit wider for better coverage, so the straps on the front and back are wider too. I made the short length, with bucket pockets and the high neckline. Next time I would use a walking foot to sew on the bias binding (it is one long piece all around). The apron is so bright and cheerful, and lovely to wear.
Since I had leftover fabric, and the fabric is bright (something that I don't have too much of) I made the cat a new anti-predation collar. This time I didn't make the full circle (so that it would be less clown like).
It is the same size as her break-away collar.
It lays flat on her (looks more like a shirt collar, she just needs a tie, maybe a bow..... somehow the little outdoor cat now has her own bedroom and a wardrobe! When I suggested to my family that now that we live on a farm we should raise a beef calf or a pig for meat, to become more self sufficient, this was pointed out to me).
The collar seems to be working - it has been a few weeks and I haven't seen her catch a song bird, just lots of mice, voles and ground squirrels.
This week I spun a tiny amount of rabbit fur.
So fluffy! To make the beard of a tiny gnome!
This one is for a friend. The rabbit fur comes from her daughter's rabbit.
This past weekend we had high winds, and with a loaded apple tree it marked the start of apple canning season.
A few batches of apple sauce.
A batch of apple jelly.
and the latest batch fresh from the canner (I learned that it seems much easier to make apple jelly when you let the juice drip overnight).
This tree is still loaded, plus there is another apple tree not quite ripe and a crab apple tree, so lots more to can - apple pie filling next!
Photos from around -
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| A Hummingbird at the feeder |
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| A Winnipeg Parks Rose from the garden |
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| So many Blackbirds |
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| Berries on the wild asparagus |