Not a Goose to be Found

Another autumn week went by in a flash! I am busy with customer quilts, several of which also required binding. I have a couple of tight deadlines because the clients are flying off to Australia and Houston and want to take the quilts with them. I went along to the Doughtys Fabric roadshow in a Cornish village Hall where I bought 3m of fabric to line the coat that has been on the go for ages since I “lost” its lining fabric in my move.

Nessie had a fancy haircut and the groomer decreed that she should attend the hairdresser every 8 weeks! She looks very smart but I wouldn’t dream of going to get my own hair done that often;)

Trees are starting to show off their autumn colours and I found a lovely clump of little puff ball mushrooms.

On Wednesday evening I ventured into town to experience the Tavistock Goose Fair at which there were no geese for sale. There were many trashy market stalls, food trucks and an impressive funfair which did not impress Nessie. The streets were rammed with people - I don’t think it is something I will rush to attend annually but now I know what it is all about.

My sister was enthusing about how wonderful it is to borrow books and magazines on a Kindle from the library. However, I had to buy a half-price Kindle Fire since the basic E-readers are not compatible. I enjoyed making it a sleeve which somehow ended up half an inch too short when I put it together so I added a frill so it would not annoy me. I has made me think that it would be fun to add frills to patchwork notebook covers (and other things like the seams of my unfinished coat) so that might be a new project for me…

Making and Baking

Despite telling myself that after a busy work week I should try to do fewer weekend chores, I seemed to still be buzzing around with my hoover and checklist. It was a very busy week at work with classes running every day, including my 2 day overlocker workshop. Everything went very well but there was a lot of reorganising to do at the end of each day to make the classroom ready for the next round of tuition.  

I decided not to go anywhere over the weekend and I don’t know how I would have fitted in an outing anyway. Nessie and I ventured out to the park to watch the ceremony in honour of Polo, the town’s stray cat as he was made a “Catizen” by the mayor. 

I made quite a lot of messes in my kitchen and created piles of washing up. I put my lime pickle into jars and started another batch. I made more apple, date and apricot chutney,  2 apple cakes which looked ugly but tasted great, and a huge pot of soup.

I was glad that the weather was wet and windy as it meant I could hunker down at the sewing machine to make a notebook cover for Nella’s birthday. The fancy stitching takes far longer than you expect (every time) and I always wish I had remembered to add some sort of elastic closure. I don’t have my overlocker at home so I missed out decorative cover-stitch and fringing but hopefully, she will like the scraps that I selected.

PS - who needs a fancy iron that turns itself off? My old one just keeps going and I now command Alexa to turn it on and off with a smart plug!