Yesterday was spent helping the girls sew their quilts from 2 birthdays ago, when their friends came over and made squares that I intended to sew into quilts for them.

I think it’s cool that they’re old enough now to sew their own quilts. The girls and their friends glued fabrics cut into flowers/butterflies/suns/etc onto white background squares and then wrote on them with colored Sharpies. I bought coordinating fabric for the background to sew the squares to. This was all done in the spring of 2007, I believe, and it’s been sitting in a laundry hamper in my craft storage room ever since.

Yesterday morning, the girls sewed the fabric shapes down to secure them to the white squares. I’m hoping that when we wash them, the edges will fray and look cool. Next, we cut background fabric to connect the squares into strips,

now we’re sewing the strips to background strips, and sewing those together.

The sewing machine and iron were going all day, and the girls were in heaven. It was a nice day despite my lack of the intended make-up sleep.

Poor Clark had a fever, so he was mellow. I didn’t get much chance to knit on my shawl. I didn’t cook much of anything, except…

and maybe I’m totally behind the times on this, but Nalley makes turkey chili! If you recall, Nalley chili has been my rock-bottom-I-need-to-eat-something-and-everything-else-makes-me-sick food. It’s not something that I normally consume, I have to be pretty desperate and have to not look when I’m eating it because canned beef totally freaks me out. Anyway, I was at the store and saw the turkey chili. It was on sale for $1 a can, and I bought 4, feeling optimistic. Half a can served as my lunch yesterday, and while it is a bit bland, it’s totally edible and I got some protein!

So that was nice.