Heat and Hot Water

The husband spent the weekend finishing the wood boiler project. I know better than to interrupt him when he is in focused work mode. Just before dinner, I spotted this:

The wood boiler is now operational. We can use this to heat the house and keep the propane as a backup heat source. The wood boiler is also hooked up to the hot water heater to provide virtually unlimited hot water. (DD#2 will be happy to hear that.) The system looks like this:

The husband explained it to me, but I didn’t make an in-depth study of how this works. The wood boiler comes with an app and is hooked up to our wifi. He has been keeping tabs on the temperature from his phone. The house did get pretty toasty last night, although anything above 70 degrees is too warm for me.

On to the next project.

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While the husband was working on the wood boiler, I cut out fabric for this:

This is the A Little Somethin’ Jacket by CNT Patterns. We’re going to try this as a class next month. The class coordinator at the quilt store south of town suggested it. She made one years ago and liked it well enough that she wants to try making the jacket again in flannel. I pulled a rayon batik out of my stash—it’s the wrong season for a light jacket, but I know the store has rayon batiks in stock and I try to make class samples in fabrics they carry. If I like this, I might make a version out of some heavier rayon knit (sweatshirt weight). Theoretically, this could even be made from a ponte knit.

The pattern consists of three pieces. The front is self-faced. This shouldn’t take long to make up. I’m doing the tunic version with long sleeves, although I suspect it may still be short on me. We’ll see.

I’m also going to make another Liesel + Co Easton Cowl. That’s the class I am teaching on Friday. Tera texted me yesterday to let me know she’s planning to take it. I made that top way back in May or June and I want to familiarize myself with the pattern again. I’m doing the long-sleeve version this time.

I’ve got a few other patterns stacked and ready to cut out once I get these two done.

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The mother of one of my high school friends sent me this by way of my mother. They’ve been in Women’s Club together for decades and Laura reads the blog, so she knows how I feel:

I showed it to the husband and it made him laugh, too. Thank you, Laura! I have this hanging over my desk now.