Well, friends, we've made it through our school years. Of course there was one last hiccup. On my son's last day of school they were briefly under lockdown. No one was harmed and the whole thing lasted less than 10 minutes. Someone was spotted heading toward school with a gun. It was a BB gun and the person/student was apprehended outside the school doors. Graduation is this Saturday. More on that in a minute.
You may have seen my finished Magnificent Mystery top on this month's OMG post, but if not, here it is. I have decided how I want to quilt it, so it's just a matter now of making the backing and finding time to get it on a machine. If you want to read a few more details about it, scroll back one post to the May OMG link up.
I also quilted a fat quarter's worth of Annie's Soft and Stable. It was my first time quilting it and it was a breeze.
The cup size is one that is recommended based on my measurements, but it looked like I could fit a small chicken in each side of area just under the armpit. My chest is not where their chest is. Plus the bodice itself was a lot shorter in the front than the back. It barely covered the goods in front. The back wasn't actually too bad other than the copious amounts of excess fabric on the sides. But the bodice fit looked nothing like any of the models on their website. Theirs were all much longer, ending closer to their waistlines.
I remeasured myself and entered the numbers in their fit calculator. My upper bust measurement varies by 1/2" or so depending on day and time. If I put in the half inch, I get one size. If I round it up (like I did for the first try), I get a completely different size and cup size. I wish I had someone close by who knows what they are doing who could help me fit this bodice. I've printed off the smaller size and cup size bodice and will try again with that. I might try to just have my son and husband help drape and trace me to get a general size idea if the second bodice doesn't work. It might scar my son. lol. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. Ugh.
Okay, moving along, I've quilted just a few things since last week. Thursday and Friday I had a ton of pick ups and drop offs, so I didn't accomplish anything those days. I took the long weekend off. 🎉
I quilted Interstellar Lite on Penny's quilt.
Heather selected Ansley Park for her quilt.
And Trudy went with In the Swirls.
We stopped to get groceries the other night and Kroger had a robot doing inventory. My husband reached in to grab some asparagus near where it was scanning. It got confused and started spinning in circles. It has "eyes" that blinked at you on the other side.
My son and I went to the IU Surplus store to poke around. We didn't get there quick enough after they stocked all the small appliances and furniture after the students moved out. They did have tons and tons and tons of cleats of all sizes. This pair was a size 19 I think. It was huge!
And we were scouring Facebook for hens that were approximately the same size as Nugget. She is still being shunned by Peanut and Smoky. Peanut even tries to keep her from the food. Smoky is trying to keep everyone away from Peanut. I saw that Henry had some blood on his wing the other day. They haven't fought in quite some time, so 🤷🏻♀️.
We ended up driving an hour each way to pick up two Barred Rock hens. I think they are a bit younger than Nugget, but fairly close, maybe six weeks instead of eight. Their integration into the coop seems to have gone a lot better. I think they were housed with a large flock of all ages previously, whereas we raised Nugget (with the two roosters we had to give back) from one day after hatching. We left them out in the dog cage in the run Monday and put them up in the coop that night.
