Category Archives: Sashiko

Simple Sunday

Posted in California, home stuff, Sashiko, Uncategorized, Walking by

A lovely fall morning. I feel pretty good this morning. Most of the dex has worn off and isn’t affecting me too much. We had a nice walk without anyone there again. It’s kind of weird since the two nice ladies haven’t been there all week. Maybe they’re on vacation. It’s pretty dark when we get there but daylight savings is less than a month away so that’ll change things.

I decided NOT to go into Anytime gym this morning and instead power washed the outside windows with the outside Windex. I’m really late on this since I do the windows once a quarter but not last quarter. It’s very easy to use the spray bottle attached to the hose.

I also started a loaf of whole wheat sandwich bread. Not sourdough just yeast. I almost always use King Arthur’s recipes. This one called for a 1/4 c veg oil which I thought was a lot but did it anyway just to see how the recipe turns out.

I’m rethinking a bread machine to make dough but not really sure yet. There are a couple of ones that I like that are in the $125 range so not like a Zojurushi. Unless I found another used Zoju I wouldn’t spend that much money for just doing the dough cycle. The one I looked at a Youtuber was using and liked that the pan was ceramic not teflon so that was interesting to me. We’ll see. mixing in the Kitchen aid is just as easy for the most part.

Here’s the quilt frame set up with the Japanese quilt on it.

I’m not trying to do perfect rows or anything, just quilting using the Sashiko stitching.

It may take a while….

Simple Sunday

Posted in Blood test, bread, California, camping, cooking, decluttering, Flylady, freezer cooking, Lake tahoe, minimalism, Sashiko, simplicity, swimming, Uncategorized, Walking by

A lovely walk this morning with a few people there. Sundays are my favorite day to walk as usually there is no one. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the weather turns.

Yesterday the pool was quite busy and I shared a lane. I noticed more of the ‘regulars’ there so it must be the news is out that the pool is open. It was still great. This week will be different as I have 2 days of doing other things and then next Sunday we’re off to Tahoe for the week. We do plan to use the gym at least 2x and walk when we can.

Here’s a sample of the Sashiko I’m doing on a pair of old jeans.

I got these 2 books from the library. Both are quite good with patterns. I liked the one on the left more.

Working with the denim was more difficult but it’s just a patch so I’m not concerned about even stitching. Just random running stitches.

Here’s a picture of the sourdough rye I made. It had good flavor and it did a fairly nice spring for being rye. Rye is hard to do but I’ll do another loaf eventually.

I’ve been playing around with sourdough focaccia too. I still haven’t gotten the top all crispy like the YouTube channel showed. I’m thinking the oven needed to be hotter?? Not sure, but I’ll keep trying. I wanted to perfect a bread that we could use for sub sandwiches and the focaccia seemed like a good option.

This morning, I plan on going to the gym for just weights, no treadmill as I walked this morning and I don’t want my knee to be overworked. Then I have double-stuffed potatoes to make and freeze. Yesterday PGE had our power off all day so I couldn’t use the oven.

Flylady zone is the bedroom. If you follow along a tip I read from Peter Walsh was ‘ask yourself what the room in question is for’, so like the bedroom is to sleep, rest, etc. So remove anything from the bedroom that doesn’t support that. No electronics for instance. After having done Feng Shui for years, I do think what you have around you does affect you on some level. I don’t do FS anymore but the principles of FS and minimalism are quite similar. Keeping things harmonious and uncluttered is key, along with subdued color palettes.

I get my labs tomorrow so I should know by Friday what we’re going to do with treatment.