It's a long Bank Holiday weekend, and the sunshine is still hanging around. I swear when I was a kid every Bank Holiday weekend was soaking wet, all rain clouds and hanging around indoors ...
Here's a quick round-up of the latest fabric postcards I've made. Saturday's began with a plain dark blue background with a couple of added inserts in purple and a punchy pink.
I kept stitching into it, enjoying the perfectly imperfect crosses and lines I made.
Another day of my soon-to-end challenge completed. Once again I've used the cover of this quilt book by Maria Shell as a background.
Sunday's postcard is a play on a muted colour palette and straight lines.
Progress was made.
I sat outside, enjoying a peaceful morning sewing by hand, listening to bird song and watching the sparrows sipping water from the makeshift bird bath.
And again, this time against a different background.
Apart from craftiness, I also recently - inevitably - did a quick mooch around a few charity shops. I bought a dress, which I definitely won't wear as it's not quite me, though I love the material. Also, a shirt, which I initially thought would join the dress in being chopped up for future patchworking. It's a size 8, and I assumed it wouldn't fit me. But it's more of a 12 than an 8, so it's been washed and hung in my wardrobe. Honestly, size labels in clothes are meaningless, aren't they?
Today I collected chard leaves from the allotment, to add to a stir fry for lunch. I sowed chrysanthemum seeds and put in some squash plants a neighbour gave me, chatted to a nearby plot holder - bless him! He's even less idea what he's doing than me. I had to explain the mystery plants that'd self seeded on his plot were poppies - and I promised another plot holder I've save some iris tubers for his missus come the autumn.
Coming home I made lentil burgers, based on a recipe I found online. It's a really economical way to get your protein. You soak a cup of dried red lentils in water for an hour or more, then drain and rinse them before shaking off most of the water.
Put the lentils in a bowl. Add a handful of chopped spring onions, a grated carrot, ginger and seasoning. Plus a tablespoon of plain flour as a binding agent. Then, I used a stick blender to whoosh 'em all up into a sticky paste like mixture.
I made nine smallish burgers and left them to rest on grease-proof paper, so they could firm up.
Into the frying pan ...
I think I'll add more carrot next time as they could do with being a little sweeter. But they were good to eat, and all those lentils must be doing good too, surely?
Anyway, that's all for now. I'm watching 'Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland' on the BBC iplayer, and it's grim but compelling stuff. I'll try and fit in another chapter of Alice Hoffman's 'The Probable Future' before I go to bed too. It's so beautifully written.
Bye for now.
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