cloth: salmon cuisine & swim camp

My favorite meal this past late summer because it was such a delicious accompaniment to all the fresh vegetables from the garden was one of those ginormous ready-to-bake Salmon Milano from Costco. I slow baked the salmon and served it with roasted zucchini and yellow squash and an heirloom tomato salad and rounded out the meal with homemade fettucine Alfredo. For a few days, I kept eating the leftover salmon straight from the refrigerator instead of mixing the fish with green onion, mayo, and celery for a salad or a melt. Winter is approaching, and I'm craving salmon again.

And I regard it as a fait accompli that I finished not only the No Shrinking Violet quilt, but also Swim Camp, both which I'll be gifting to a recently born grandniece and a grandnephew born less than a year before her. That's 2 Christmas presents for children who can't yet read off my list. And I did no hand stitching on this baby blanket, but completely quilted it on my domestic. The aqua Aurifil thread looks great on top of both the navy blue and sky blue and cerulean fabrics.

I stitched a little too much binding, but that beats having to run to the fabric store because of running out. 

 

As usual, I had fucked up the joining of the binding ends and had to do-over twice by watching a YouTube tutorial.

And there was a bit too much pilling from the batting, but it'll all go away when it gets laundered.                                      

I do love this quilt and hope it's cuddled under for napping.