Recovery day!

     Ahh, another Christmas under the belt.  That belt certainly needed expanding after eating.  How come every year I try to cut back on how much I make and I still make too much.  So what did I make?  The final meal ended up:

   Pork roast cooked over a bed of onions

   Parsnips

   Mashed potatoes and gravy

   Green beans with bacon bits in it

   Pumpkin Pie parfaits

     Dan took home ALL the leftovers from the table (a little bit of everything) so it was a good thing that I hadn't put out all of the pork.  LOL.  I think it was my best so far.  He also took home his Christmas present which was:

    Homemade egg nog mix

   Homemade hot cocoa mix

   Miniature marshmallows

   Various candy bars (of his favorite kinds)

  His favorite dip (chili dip)

   Chips

   That should last him until New Years.  That is what I thought.  I found out that he had already broken into the Oreos and they are gone.  He did eat some of his left over pork and mashed potatoes the other night also so I know it was not ALL eaten in one night.

   Today I finished doing all the dishes and laundry so that was enough work for me.  LOL.  that meant I brought out all the projects that I want to work on at the beginning of 2025.  I am trying to figure out how many new projects (or project how many I will collect) and which projects I totally NEED to finish.  So that meant today I cleaned up the sewing room/bedroom and and pulled the projects on my ironing board to keep in sight.  That is when I discovered my hexies.  By the time I separated them out I have two different stacks.  One stack is for regular hexies and the other is for Quilt As You Go hexies.  There is one project that I have that is technically not a hexie but rectangle but I am so used to saying hexies.  It would be more accurate if I say English Paper Piecing (EPP).  So I am working on the rectangles.  I did separate all the pieces and I wasn't happy with the how the rectangles felt.  So instead I disassembled what I had done, which was only around 5 EPP pieces) and am trying something else.  Tomorrow/today I will sew some of the new methods EPP pieces and see if I like that better.  Basically I am putting fusils on the top and bottom of the piece.  It feel better.  I'll know more after I attach some of those rectangles together.  

   Another project that I will be working on is the last dragon.  That will be a copper dragon.  I couldn't find my original dragon pix I had found so I had to pick out a different one. That is ok.  This one should be cute.  

   That's about it for this update.  I will write later in the week to report on how the EPP worked out.  I need to figure out how wide I want to make this project.  It will take forever to do but that is ok.  It is all about the learning process isn't it?

   Have a great day my friends.