her able hands

Official Spring, and we woke to a thick coating of frost on everything. The next five days we have snow flurries forecast, and high teens to low twenties at night. I’ve been up since 6 am, my mind whirring like an over-zealous wind-up clock—plotting, planning, and trying to figure out how to squeeze three or four extra hours into the day. Will make some sort of an omelette and the beautiful organic greens I got at Kreiger’s for supper, with a light chicken stock garlic soup.

Chris got the windows mounted onto the cold frame yesterday, now we just need a couple of pieces of plexi-glass to cover the width (window about a foot too narrow.) By the weekend I’ll have it planted with spinach, mesclun, lettuce, and chard. If we don’t get any more rain, my peas and radishes will go in the ground this week too. I’m thinking I’ll just lay the seeds on top of loosened soil, then cover them with a few inches of straw. That’s what I’ll do with the potatoes too, help give them all a fighting chance against the super-wet, heavy clay soil. Last year they all rotted in the ground before they got to sprout.

I finished a writing project yesterday, something I agonized over for two days, and sent it out into the world. If anything comes of it, I’ll tell you all about it, but for now I’m just crossing my fingers and enjoying the fact that I got it done. I think I did a good job, too.

I’d like to make a couple more changes to the site—the main thing to make a navigation bar under the banner, instead of having the links in the sidebar. The banner needs a little more work too, I think it floats there on the page without an anchor. Maybe it’s just a question of framing it, but when I try to do that in the code the frame doesn’t butt up against the image. When I try to do it in Photoshop CS, I can’t seem to get the measure all the way around exactly the same. Working on it though, and learning a lot in the process. My brain feels bigger.

I have a stack of fabric waiting on the cutting table, the light orange at the bottom is a cotton quilt I picked up at a thrift store. I’m going to turn it into a few shopping totes. The orange and pink/red/white cottons are for something I’m making for Miz Untitled.

It’s time to shop for more bib fabric, too. Thank you all so much for buying my baby bibs. I love the thought of so many gorgeous kids sporting my work! Send me pictures so I can get my Happy Customers page made! I’m down to 8 cut and ready to sew. I hope to get out this weekend to stock up on fabric and snaps. The market season will begin in just a few short months, and I need to have plenty to bring with me, plus the shopping totes to sell.

Anyhoo. Happy Vernal! May your day be eggy and bright. I’ll try to write something more interesting tomorrow.

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