fabric-be-gone!

So…my friend Arizona Mary sent me a cute write-up after Tuesday’s blog on Michael’s gashouser eggs: 

“I have never heard that term? I assume you're talking about the egg in toast. I just Wikipedia Eggs in the basket. Who knew?

--- Variant names for the dish include "cowboy eggs", "toad in the hole", "one-eyed jack", "gashouse eggs", "a hole in one", "eggs in a nest", "eggs in a frame", "rocky mountain toast", "spit in the ocean", and "popeye eggs".

The dish can be seen being prepared onscreen by actor Guy Kibbee in the 1935 Warner Bros film, Mary Jane's Pa, leading them to sometimes be known as "Guy Kibbee Eggs". They are sometimes called "Betty Grable Eggs", stemming from the preparation of the dish in the actress's 1941 film Moon Over Miami, although the script refers to them as "gashouse eggs". The name "Gashouse Special" is used in the 1975 book The Kids' Kitchen Takeover by Sarah Stein, attributing the name as her husband's idea.  The dish is prepared in the 1987 film Moonstruck (by Olympia Dukakis' character). It is also prepared in a 1996 episode of the sitcom Friends, by the character Joey Tribbiani, who refers to it as "Eggs with the bread with the hole in the middle, a la me!" It is called "Eggy in the Basket" by Stephen Fry's character in the 2005 film V for Vendetta. It is prepared using fresh eggs by Susan Sarandon's character Marnie Minervini in the 2016 film The Meddler. The dish is also portrayed in Lucifer (TV series) S02E07 where Lucifer enjoys one made with sweet bread and oyster leaves.”

See….my blog can be educational too (thanks to my friends :~).

Michael headed back out to the chiro on Wednesday (9/13) and then onto breakfast (free stack of pancakes at IHOP) before hitting Lowe’s and the DOLLAR STORE and ALDI’s and then home.  I SKYPE-d with Janice for an hour and we had a wonderful talk.  She really helped me with some fabric I’ve been struggling with.  Many people have remarked to me that they can’t believe the beautiful quilts that I give away, and truthfully it is very easy for me to give them away.  I’ve had the joy of working with the fabric, sewing it all together and finishing the project.  Plus, I have had several instances of starting to make a quilt for myself…and then somehow God puts someone in my path that it seems like the quilt was made for…and I again am able to let it go.  And for me, I don’t want to end up with a closet full of beautiful quilts that never do anything for anyone (please do not read this as a judgment of people who make and keep their quilts…everyone is allowed to feel how they feel and their feelings are totally valid!)  I make quilts to keep people warm, and to bring some beauty into their lives, not to keep them.  However, where I DO have a problem with letting go….is fabric!  I become very acquisitive with fabric that is given to me and I don’t like having that feeling.  Part of it is because I know people give me fabric because I do a lot of charity work, and they like the idea that their fabric will be used for charity quilts, and I feel like I really need to not let them down and I need to do charity quilts with it.  I received a bag of free fabric several years ago, and when I looked inside it was mostly batiks and OH how I didn’t want to let any of it go.  After I calmed down a bit I decided I couldn’t keep all of it and I called my friend Loree to share some of it.  Recently (within the past 6 months) she and I revisited that bag and she took a bit more…but still every time I looked in the bag I would see another beautiful piece of fabric and I couldn’t let any more of it go.  I started reading a new book yesterday: “The road back to you: an Enneagram Journey to self-discovery”.  They had a really good description of this type of hoarding behavior that struck home with me.  When your hands are clenched so tightly to something, you can’t possibly open them to receive anything else the universe has to offer.  So, Janice and I were talking about it and I went and grabbed the bag.  The result?  A pile of fabric will be going to her (yea…so glad SKYPE was working so that she could see and choose): 

a pile of fabric will be given away (note the recently made selvage ball strips in action): 

and I kept only 2 small pieces of what was in the bag (the stars becasue obviously I think I can use in a patriotic quilt and the deep blue batik becasue it is gorgeous and there are several yards there  :~):  

I immediately felt lighter and better…I am very glad she (and the book) were able to help me let go of both the fabric and the feelings!  After our talk I had a bit of breakfast before heading back to the studio.  My plan was to fire up Miss Scarlett and finish the last 2 rows on the second patriotic, but instead I got a call from a new quilting client and met with her about her quilts.  It was after NOON before I finally headed downstairs to get some crafting work done  :~).  I got the next-to-the-last row of quilting done and started the last row…my bobbin ran out and I had to wind a new one and start up again.  Well, apparently I never put the bobbin thread through the bobbin tension…so my last row ended up to be a whole LOTTA rippin’ and a little bit of sewing…

all of the ripped out thread!

but finally after over 2 hours (some of it spent on my back underneath my machine, ripping out bobbin thread) it was done…YAY!!  

Michael and I headed out for a late dinner at Olive Garden and when we got home around 8 PM I did a little sewing on my pinwheels before heading up to snuggle with my honey.