Roast Pork and Marinated Greens with Caper Aioli and Pickled Onions Sandwich

Workshop Lunch:
Sandwich platter:
    Roast pork and marinated greens with caper aioli and pickled onions
    Baked ricotta with marinated greens, arugula, and caper aioli
A bowl of mixed pickles:  fennel and carrots
Quinoa salad with marinated artichokes, picholine olives, lemon zest, and parsley

Ceramics Works-n-Progress: Tiles

Materials:  Sculpture Mix, white and black underglazes, rubber stamps, Minnesota clay pad in black

Need to glaze and cone 6 fire these babies.

Ceramics Work-in-Progress: Pit Fired Heart

I know later I remember what clay this heart is sculpted from that a clay mate gave me.

Ceramics Works-in-Progress: Succulent & Cacti Planters

Ceramics Works-in-Progress: Frost Porcelain Cabochons & Pit-Firing Heart

Materials: Frost Porcelain clay, and shucks I can't remember the clay for the heart which a clay mate gave me

Work-in-Progress Sewing: Beginning Quilting Class

It all started with watching a Creative Bug video on how to piece a top for a Rosy Quilt and then buying one French General mini charm pack of another from Etsy, some pink hued Kona solids and flower prints from Joann's, and then discovering some gorgeous rose prints from a local quilt fabric shop.  I worry about the combination of quilt fabrics from Joann's which are so thin and flimsy than more expensive fabrics.

However, I'm stuck.  I still have yet to make a border or two and include a backing and a binding.  Nor do I have any idea how to sandwich it all together into an actual quilt.  And so I signed up for a beginning quilt class at a local quilt fabric shop.  I was and am so excited about this project.

I found some vivid orange-colored yardage from Amy Butler in my stash and then picked out another Amy Butler fabric in a tangerine lotus print to go with the tangerine dots.

In my stash was this orange Amy Butler Midwest Modern print.

And I picked up online Amy Butler's lime dot fabric to coordinate with a color in the lotus and Midwest Modern fabric.

I found on Etsy a sale on this Amy Butler tangerine roses fabric as well as 2 yards of the tangerine dots for only $10, which I think will all make a pretty backing (maybe).

Juxtaposed together.

Sewing: Crib Pennant

I had leftover patchwork from the big dots pillow I'd sewn and hate to waste and decided to turn it into a crib pennant for my baby nephew, Rhys.  I cut out triangles from Wonder Under fusible web and ironed the "rough side" to the wrong side of the patchwork fabric.  I then cut out the pennants.

I then peeled off the fusible web paper and stuck the sticky sided patchwork fabric onto aqua blue fabric, spritzed it with water to help stick it better, and then pressed with a hot iron to fuse.

I sewed the two fabrics together with the zig zag setting on my sewing machine.

I printed out and then cut out on Arial letters of my nephew's name on card stock.  

I traced it "backwards" on fusible web and stuck it (spritz and steam ironed) on aqua blue fabric.

Lastly I zig zag stitched the aqua blue letters onto the patchwork pennants and then stitched aqua blue ribbon to string the pennants together.

My niece penned me a lovely thank you card in baby Rhy's voice.  I now want to sew a baby quilt for Rhy's pending baby sister.