Jinny Beyer Moonglow, and the Sally Ann Store

Jinny Beyer Moonglow Quilt.  The paper pieced blocks were all quilted with stitch in the ditch and an arc-ey type of background fill in black thread.  Impossible to photograph, at least by me.  The feathers in variegated thread turned out quite lovely, though, and very visible.  This is a gorgeous quilt.

 I hit the local Salvation Army Thrift Store today in search of wool sweaters for a little craft project I'm planning to teach at Morning Out.  I'll save you the time - there is no such thing as wool sweaters.  They were almost all Acrylic.  I found a few that were blends, with only 10 or 20% wool.  Finally after 20 minutes of riffling through racks of sweaters, I got one that is mostly wool, so it will hopefully felt nicely in the washing machine.  However, after that little find, for some reason I decided to check out the rest of the store.  I ended up at the small appliances (boy, people get rid of a lot of toasters!).  Look at my EXCELLENT $10 bonus item.

DH looked askance at me, and I have to admit I was worried about the grease that had never been cleaned out of it (hopefully not from someone frying up possum burgers... aarrgh...).

But it folds up into a nice little travel package, too!  Now it can come along with me on retreats and cook up my oat pancakes.  Yum yum.

 When I first saw it I had a brief moment of unbridled joy when I thought it might be a panini press.  I AM encouraged however, and may hit the thrift shops a bit more frequently if I can find great stuff like this.  That panini press may be out there somewhere...