Barn Pixie

I'm girding myself for errands today. I need to get to the pharmacy for migraine meds for me, and likely for the other two a well. We finally finished the second giant hunk of braised meat, at least to the point where the rest can go into a lasagna. Alice has finished her last project and handed it in, and is finished with school until she takes the sailing part of her SEA semester. I am thinking I might recruit her for quartermaster apprentice, and get some help with the food management and prep. She was the person in her house at SEA who knew what they'd run out of, how much of things they generally got, and how it played out over the week. And she was shocked at how much space it took up in her brain. Some of that can be offloaded to a list, but it does help if individuals have specialties.

I've been cooking for, like, three weeks solid? And I am kind of sick of it, and I can only see it getting worse as time wears on. I am deeply grateful that the kitchen clearing part is not my department. I cook, Al cleans, Alice bakes sugary things that make people happy. So far that is a reasonable division of tasks, but the cleaning has to expand a little because the pixies are not coming in every two weeks, and the kitchen floor is getting gritty.

I wish I knew why I was making a quilt? Part of it is using up the weird floral fabric I had in hand, matching it with solid greens I also had on hand. But the end result is going to be smol - I have 94 4" blocks, and I have not even though about how I will arrange them yet. I thought I had 144, but I doubled something once too often. 144 blocks would give me 4' square, which is a couch blanket, and only good for lap coverage. I have more pre-cut pieces.... I could make more blocks and see what happens. That is Timna's best trick, and her quilts are A.MAZ.ZING.

Hah. I just found another 60 5" squares, and 250 2.5" squares. These are all blue/green though, instead of acidy yellow greens and olives. something will become clear.