Quilting House of Horrors!

Pashy finally took a turn at not eating, but it didn't last for too long.  One day.  Janet says that was longer than Bronwyn's stint as a vegetarian when she was a teenager!  Pashy's robust appetite has returned!  Here's our current food system, the variety pak!

On the left, Pashy's food with peas, at the back, Noodles' food with carrots and yam and on the right, mine with ground beef, rice and cottage cheese.

Janet thinks it's so cute the way Pash holds onto her bone.

Janet and Phil splurged and treated themselves to first of the season halibut.

Janet was pretty shocked at how small a piece of halibut was for $13.33!

Look!  It's an all white meal, save for the carrots and big dollop of butter on Skinny Minney's rice!

Janet's fabulous Thursday volunteer friends went for lunch to celebrate Welda's 90th birthday!

From the left, Barb, Janet, Doreen, Katherine and Erin.  Welda, birthday girl is in the front.  Welda comes every Thursday and peels veggies for 3 or 4 hours.  There a couple more Thursday friends, but they were unable to attend. 

We have gone from a Quilting High to the Quilting Doldrums.  Turns out it is difficult to stitch straight lines on a piece larger than a table runner.   In addition, Janet now realizes the table runner was easy and that she isn't the brilliant quilter she thought she was.

Janet's frenemy, the stitch ripper!

Judging by all the bad words we hear, it's safe to assume the stitch ripper spends a lot of time being used.  We fear Janet may wear the fabric out, replacing her stitches!  Let's give up this silly dream, Janet, and go back to something manageable - tag blankies!

After talking to Banana on the weekend, it was ascertained that the trusty Janome Memory Craft 4000 is actually about 20 years old.  Karen offered to loan Janet her old machine which is about 4 or 5 years old.  It even comes with a cute suitcase!

Karen says not to examine so closely.  Janet did check out some quilting blogs and says not everyone's stitching is perfect.