Gin

@ginjones

I'm in training to become a Nac Mac Feegle. Their motto is: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!" WEE FREE MEN by Terry Pratchett. Meanwhile, I'm a traditional mystery author and patient advocate. GinJones.com

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Gin@ginjones· 3d

Don't know enough about southern/hydroponic gardening to suggest specific options, but FWIW, I like growing mixes (which can be chosen for your zone, I think) rather than single varieties of leaf lettuces, just because they're so pretty in color (red!) and shape (ruffles!).

Bouquet of leaf lettuces in a variety of shapes and colors (mostly green, but a few reds in the middle of the collection).

Gin@ginjones· 4d

The fourth (and probably final) book in the garlic farm series will be available on Tuesday, so if you haven't read the other three, and want a taste, the first one is free through the weekend: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Cover of SIX CLOVES UNDER, featuring rolling hills, a farmhouse and related buildings, with a marmalade cat in the foreground, keeping an eye on a crate of garlic and assorted vegetables.

Gin@ginjones· 29d

I remember making them ourselves when we went camping to make grilled PB&J or "pies" with canned pie filling and bread for the crust, using a pie iron like this (although I remember it as much lighter weight):

Long-handed pie iron, with a two-part round metal grill (like a small waffle iron) at one end and two handles that become one when the grill is closed. From here: https://www.pieiron.com/collections/great-for-the-bbq-grill/products/round-cast-iron-pie-iron-original-by-rome

Gin@ginjones· Jul 3

Here are the rest.

Six cat-sized quiltlets that are mostly green (except one that has a yellow border and a little green on a black background), in a variety of simple geometric designs. These are mostly left over scraps/units from a high school graduation quilt for a niece who requested that it be in her college's colors.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 26

Wanna magnet now! My collection has plenty of room for expansion!

Five magnets on a black fridge, plus an Easter bunny in a painting smock. Three magnets state "I romanced the Runoff" (2020), or "I Romanced the Vote" (2022 and 2024, along with another one in a fancy flowery font that says "FUCK SCOTUS." And finally there's one from a similar fundraiser in the mystery reader/writer community that shouts Voting's No Mystery.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 13

Also on east coast (too hot even for curling up in boxes)

Tabby cat stretched out on nice, cool desk, between keyboard and monitor, with head butting up against a (usually fought over but rejected today) Priority Mail box. Thermometer in background reads 79 degrees Fahrenheit.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 8

My princess cat says this is ALMOST enough layers of quilts for her to safely sleep in without feeling any peas beneath them. Pic taken before I had a chance to put away quiltlets after photo shoot for @romancingthevote.com auction.

Tabby cat seated on scattered pile of ten quiltlets in a variety of colors and designs.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 7

Aaaaand done! Really appreciate not having to paste in the bio for each submission!

Five quiltlets scattered on the floor on top of each other in a variety of mostly intense colors. Pink one on top is made of leftover blocks from the pink baby/lap quilt already submitted for auction.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 7

Okay, getting ready to submit all the quiltets as buy-it-nows for the @romancingthevote.com auction. Managed to take all the pix with only one major photobomb! Now I need to find a place to store everything where Mabel (and her two sisters) won't shed all over them! #QuiltSky

Five quiltlets with, appropriately, a tabby cat settling in for a bath and a nap. Quiltlets are about 18" square(ish), in traditional blocks of squares/triangles/strips in a wide variety of colors.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 7

Made these approx 6"x8" bags from hand-marbled lightweight fabric to use as gift bags, but apparently I never give gifts this size. Should I make them a buy-it-now for @romancingthevote.com auction? And if so, suggestions for price? I've never bought a fabric bag, because I just make what I need!

Ten draw-string bags, about 6" x 8", made from marbled fabric, one with marbled hearts, the rest all-over patterns. Most have a good bit of yellow and turquoise, a few are predominantly teal blue, a few have a faded red in them.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 7

#WIPsnips Guide->Lead (synonym): "You’re just stuck in a rut that leads back to Maine. It’s not where you belong though. You don’t have friends there, people who care about you, like you have here.”

Cover of RHUBARB PIE BEFORE YOU DIE, with a greenhouse, row of rhubarb, scattering of garlic and a marmalade cat watching over everything.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 6

Sneak peek of 5 lap/baby quilts (35-38" square) I'm about to upload to the donor form for the @romancingthevote.com auction (first week of July—mark your calendar now, because you won't want to miss it)! Please keep in mind my photography skills are nowhere as good as my quilting ones. #QuiltSky

Five lap quilts folded in quarters, inside out, with a corner flipped to show the front side. All the same basic design (nine-patch variation), all intense/jewel colors. One is purple; one has a bright blue border around a variety of blues and teals and purples; one is pink; one has a variety of blues/purples/greens and yellow block centers, all on a light background; and one is dark blues on an intensely golden yellow background (and a slightly mustardy yellow back).

Gin@ginjones· Jun 6

I've been so busy with secret projects that I keep forgetting to mention the re-release of book 2 in the Garlic Farm Mysteries on this coming Tues! Re-release of Book 3 will be in July, and a brand-new Book 4 is already up for preorder (August release date). www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Cover of RHUBARB PIE BEFORE YOU DIE featuring a greenhouse, a row of rhubarb plants, a scattering of garlic heads, and a marmalade cat keeping an eye on everything.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 2

Maybe she'll surprise you and get it FOR you. You can start dropping hints now! Is this the one you're talking about? Lighting isn't great at this hour. Colors truer in original group pic. Green is very neon, purple is very grape.

Quiltlet about 18" square, just 2"squares and framing, all in grape purple, neon green, turquoise and blue.

Gin@ginjones· Jun 2

Today's to do list includes dividing the quiltlets for the @romancingthevote.com auction into two collections of buy it now items (to make it easier for buyers to choose their fave). How would you divide them?

28 quiltlets (average 18" square) in a variety of simple designs but wildly different colors, all tossed in a confused mess on a wood floor

Gin@ginjones· May 23

First harvest of the season (1 small head of tatsoi and 1 radish) becomes world's tiniest salad. Okay, it's more of a garnish, but not bad for late May in New England!

Small blue bowl with five or six small round leaves (tatsoi) and three slices of radish. Maybe a quarter of a serving of veg, total. If I'm estimating generously. Please tell my cardiologist that I am indeed eating my veg.

Gin@ginjones· May 3

Test block for my next bed sized quilt! #QuiltSky

Ten inch block, off white background printed with little white flowers, a blueberry print forming four tulip shaped units connected by a center blue square, and contrast squares in a red paisley.

Gin@ginjones· May 2

I've got a bunch of quiltlets (cat/doll sized quilts, approx 18" square) ready for buy-it-nows, and at least three lap/baby quilts (approx 40" square) ready for auction. Still need to take pix and write descriptions before June. Sneak peek of the lap quilts below.

Three quilts, all the same nine-patch variant (squares/rows of blocks are different sizes and blocks alternate light/dark), but one is shades of pink and the other two are more scrappy, shades of blue, green, yellow, pink, purple.

Gin@ginjones· Mar 21

Mabel is such a great name. For pets and protagonists (like the one in the book in my profile pic)! This is my Mabel:

Tabby cat sleeping on her back, with her feet in the air, toes curled.

Gin@ginjones· Feb 23

Here's a sampling of the drifting from the #Blizzard of '26. It's in front of my garage, and pretty, but also the deepest I've ever seen it, having lived in this house for thirty-plus years!

Snowdrifts that look like they've been carved like the edge of glaciers or mountain peaks. Rising about halfway up red garage doors for size reference. Pile rising to the left is a white plumber's van with about two feet of snow on top of it.

Gin@ginjones· Feb 17

Mine's from December, with Rosie helping me finish a Christmas quilt

Tabby/white cat sitting on a red, green and white star block quilt I'm trying to finish machine-quilting before Christmas.

Gin@ginjones· Jan 26

My two foot high raised garden looks about six inches tall with all the snow!

Mostly snow, with pickup truck and cars in background, and what looks like a six inch high corrugated metal strip running horizontally in the foreground, and a stake sticking up at each end.

Gin@ginjones· Jan 26

Made this lap quilt for friends 30 years ago. The binding (despite being well cared for) disintegrated, as happens with any quilt that's used for its intended purpose (I always hope it will be). 2d pic is after replacing the binding. Please ignore cat fur—it loves black textiles! #QuiltSky

Black & white print border of a black and white quilt folded into quarters, showing multiple iterations of disintegrated black binding along the edges, ranging from entirely gone to still recognizable as binding with only the outer edge raw.

Same quilt border (different print though), folded in half, showing the new, entirely intact, black binding. Full confession: about half of one of the pictured edges is covered with cat fur, particularly noticeable on the solid black fabric of the binding.

Gin@ginjones· Dec 31

Three of my intended entries—my designs are a lot simpler, but I make up for it in quantity! These are baby/lap quilt size. I think I have another one in purple too, but not sure where I stored it. (I did say I was ready!)

Three baby/lap quilts in the same basic nine-patch variant, set alternating light and dark. One is a variety of jewel tones on a gray print; another is darker pinks on a pale pink print, and one is a combination of both color groups on a gray print background, with a bright blue border.222

Gin@ginjones· Dec 20

A little holiday present from me to you: the Christmas novella in my Crazy Cat Lady Chronicles is free through Christmas Eve! www.amazon.com/Four-Night-C... #BookSky

Cover of Four Cat Night, featuring Sal, a marmalade Maine coon cat, plus a Christmas tree, and a cozy wood stove, along with the tools of the nurse practitioner Wyn's trade, her first aid kit.

Gin@ginjones· Dec 16

I had a pink phase this past summer, and made three (or four?) pink quilts! Not my usual fave color, but I couldn't rest until I'd made them. Here's one. They'll likely be auctioned off the next time @romancingthevote.bsky.social has an auction.

Square baby/lap quilt in dark/bright pinks on a white background. Squares are a variation on the 9-patch, alternating dark and light.

Gin@ginjones· Dec 15

My SIL, sadly gone now, did some amazing gingerbread art for a local competition, although none featuring an entire street! Here's the only one I could find quickly. The theme that year was apparently "Santa on vacation." All elements (except the plywood board) are edible.

Airstream-style camper made of gingerbread, with a Christmas tree lying on top of it as if just picked up from the lot, and palm trees in the background, a beach chair in front. There's a little card reciting the theme as "Santa on vacation," and a blue first-place ribbon.

Gin@ginjones· Dec 15

The final stop in the Holidays & Homicides blog tour (unless I fell asleep on the bus and missed one) is a review here: saphsbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi... #BookSky

Cover for Holidays & Homicides (cozy fireplace scene with the back of a chair and the suggestion of a poison victim), with added text about the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour December 2-15

Gin@ginjones· Dec 13

Today's first stop in the Holidays & Homicides blog tour is here: fuonlyknew.com/2025/12/13/h... and the second stop is here: readingismysuperpower.org/2025/12/13/b... #BookSky

Gin@ginjones· Dec 10

It's great to be able to sew exactly what I want, except then I need to find the time. I've been thinking for a year or two about making a quilted version of this cape, either short like the red one as a "bed jacket," or ankle-length in lieu of a dressing gown.