I forgot to mention it a couple days ago when I completed them but, I have socks! The second one came out slightly large than the other. (I’m apparently starting to relax out of the beginning knitter’s propensity to knit tightly. Wish that hadn’t happened mid project, but that’s ok.) I also need to find […]
My weekend started out with a lovely girl’s breakfast out with my mother, followed by a mutually enabling trip to some local craft stores. We checked out a little fabric place on the East End, where I found this great fabric: I’ve recently found out a good friend is pregnant with her second child, and
I was in a bit of cleaning mood last night, so decided to take a tour through my UFO drawer and the spillover on the top of the set of drawers holding the UFO drawer. In the grand scheme of things, I’m actually not that bad off, but the pile is still a little sobering.
Well, it’s starting to happen. I could see my breath this morning when I was on my way out the door on the way to work. Which immediately put me in mind of the two plants I have in the backyard that I want to bring in for the winter. We definitely haven’t had any
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I finished the top of my celestial postage stamp quilt. Hurray! I think I’ve only been sitting on this since 2002. It’s definitely been a lesson in humility re-cutting all the squares and sewing half of the quilt back together. It still didn’t come together quite perfectly, but will make a perfectly good throw for
Though most of my weekend was a dismal failure due to the heat, I did at least manage to get more than half of my celestial postage stamp quilt sewn together before having my bobbin run out completely derailed my progress. (For some reason, this almost always involves seam ripping, and that makes me grumpy.)
I need a new chair for sewing. I set my machine up at the dining room table. That in and of itself isn’t bad. The table’s actually a fine height for sewing. It’s the dang dining room chairs that are killing me (and we’ve even gotten new chairs that are far more comfortable than the
Due to the excessive rain today (I’d wanted to get some gardening done before departing for my vacation on Wednesday), I managed to get the rest of the squares evened out in my celestial postage stamp quilt. I toyed with the idea of at least getting strips together, but the near dusk-like quality of the
A mere two weeks and two days later, I finally regained the full use of my computer, just in time to be going on vacation next Wednesday! Ah well. Hopefully, I’ll still have the time to catch up on some of the posts I’d wanted to do. At the very least, last night after only
Well, I’m mildly ashamed that this is my first post for the month of July, but not only is my computer still unformatted, but I’ve had to take some time to deal with the conclusion of my grandmother’s fight with ALS. I’ve come by my crafting skills from Grammie. In her later years, she made