It's been over a month since I retired from the Old Creamery Quilt Shop in Randall. Prior to retiring, I started a to-do list of things I wanted to do when I no longer went to work 2 or 3 days a week. I don't think I've done anything on the list yet. BUT -- I have been busy.
I've spent many hours in the yard and garden. I put blocks around 3 sides of my flower bed, the 4th side is the fence. The flowers are starting to bloom, and I love it! For the first time in years, I have hollyhocks. I'm not sure if it's one or more plants, but all the blossoms are pink. The old-fashioned hollyhocks are also blooming. That's what my mom called them. I'm not sure, but they might be a mallow. They're about 2 feet tall and have small pinkish-purple flowers like hollyhocks.
There are also some yellow daisy-like flowers. White daisies that I transplanted from the lawn (where they are again in bloom) are in bloom.
The lettuce reseeded itself and we had lettuce to eat before anything else was up. Dozens of tomatoes also reseeded, but most of them I pulled out, remembering how many there were last year.
I also dug out a multitude of hostas, ribbon grass, creeping charlie and a dark red clover with yellow flowers. And weeds and grass. Oh, also Bishop's Coat. Other than the creeping charlie, I replanted much of it in a new spot that needed some flowers.
But it hasn't been all gardening. I've submitted several proposals with new designs. The designing started while I was still working at the Creamery.
I have 2 new patterns with Northcott, one is a Halloween collection--I hope it does as well as Black Cat Capers did 2 years ago. The other one is a Christmas/winter panel.
I have a pattern in the 2024 All Minnesota Shop Hop magazine. I love the fabric and it will be so much fun to sew this one up.
After that two more for Northcott, a winter flannel and a patriotic print.
And a couple weeks have gone by since I started this...
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