Packed and Ready to Go, and Purchasing the Pyrex

California wildfires are creeping closer to our locale. Seven years ago this month, 9 of the 10 acres burned on the property.  

Glad I've got 3 cat cages, but I could only image the chorus of discontent should we have to pack it up. The cats are rarely confined, the most recent the youngest one having been spayed earlier in the year. 

I would be heartbroken if I would have to leave behind all of the sewing patterns I have listed. They comprise the majority of my listings. On the pattern subject, here is the cutest of the sewing pattern sessions.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185005530209

Sometimes parts of the pattern are missing and I can't sell it. This one deserves it's place in the sun for a day, it is missing the pattern instructions. 

Quilt update: I had been on the lookout for a border fabric for the Not-So-Western quilt and found the perfect one. 

Here is an image of the quilt top, pre-border fabric. 

Mystery quilter provided me with this completed backing for a few dollars at thrift that matches my flimsy. Love it when the heavy work has already been completed for me!

Once I get the quilt top to the right size, I will choose either the Old McDonald or The Sheriff as the quilted design. Still on the lookout for a midnight blue batik for the quilt's binding.

Finishing the post with a piece of Pyrex, most fantistical! While I am not a Pyrex phanatic, I do have a few pieces. For $3.99, I am pretty sure I could make a profit on this one. I had never seen this astrological pattern before.

P is for Pyrex and Poetry - A to Z Writing Challenge topic

I never thought much about Pyrex before I started blogging but then I discovered a subset of thrifters who wax poetic about Pyrex.  Yes, entire blogs devoted strictly to Pyrex.  Certain patterns are coveted as if it were the holy grail.  I have one wheat pattern bowl, I'm not sure where it ranks in the desirability of the Pyrex collecting set. Dare I say it?  To me, it is just a bowl.  Well, this starburst pattern IS pretty cool.

via Pyrex Collective.  She writes:

I got this starburst casserole dish recently and saw one just like it that ended up selling on Ebay for $120!  Can any of you tell me about it -- when it was made, if it was a promotional, what the pattern name is, etc?  Do any of you know why it would sell for so much?  I'm assuming it was bidder's frenzy and that two people just REALLY wanted it a lot!  Regardless of how much it's worth, it's not leaving my collection any time soon! 

Here is some pink Pyrex for sale on www.shopgoodwill.com.

On a different subject, April is National Poetry Month and in recognition of that I give you:
(Don't stop there - keep scrolling down for the last tidbit re photography  ...)

Why I Am Not a Painter

BY Frank O'hara

I am not a painter, I am a poet.

Why? I think I would rather be

a painter, but I am not.  Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg

is starting a painting. I drop in.

"Sit down and have a drink" he

says. I drink; we drink. I look

up. "You have SARDINES in it."

"Yes, it needed something there."

"Oh." I go and the days go by

and I drop in again. The painting is

going on, and I go, and the days

go by. I drop in. The painting is

finished. "Where's SARDINES?"

All that's left is just 

letters, "It was too much," Mike says.

But me? One day I am thinking of

a color: orange. I write a line

about orange. Pretty soon it is a

whole page of words, not lines.

Then another page. There should be

so much more, not of orange, of

words, of how terrible orange is 

and life. Days go by. It is even in

prose, I am a real poet. My poem

is finished and I haven't mentioned

orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call

it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery

I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.

Just had to add this ...