Lost and Found

My Bountiful Basket!

Plain sight

Scraps for bowls

Missing sets of swap blocks

Coffee bean burlap bag.

Last year a friend got me hooked on Bountiful Baskets. We got several baskets before our garden started producing.  I usually get them every other week since there is just the two of us feeding off of the basket.  This is our first basket of the year.  And I am pleased, it was a good one!  I hope to get another next week.

A couple weeks ago I had blogged about losing my swap blocks and how they must be in a very safe place.  Sure enough they were in plain sight!  I have a couple of hooks on the side of my cutting table. I use them to hang scissors, rotary cutters, measuring tape and a bag into which I throw my skinny leftover strips for bowls.  I must have hung the bag with the swap blocks on a hook so I wouldn't lose it.  Famous last words.  I have been working on the blocks.  I really need to knuckle down and get them finished and in the mail.

I have been roasting my own coffee for a few years now.  The company I order my green beans from have started to package the beans in these cool burlap bags!  I made a lined knitting bag for my friend and it turned out nice. I have a bunch of these bags (we go through a lot of coffee in this house!) and want to make more for my Etsy shop.  Hopefully if I get the swap blocks finished I can get a prototype made up, I need to improve the design from the one I made for my friend.

This is my Off the Wall post for this week.  Check out what everyone else is up to at Nina-Marie's blog.