March 6th, 2008, posted in Sewing
“Holly Jolly” #DBR3101 copyright 2006
Fat Quarter Tree Skirt and Table Topper ~
Rosina SmithHere is a picture of my Mother’s birthday present . . . as usual taking a couple of years and several months in the process. I wish I had a picture of my face when I was about to cut the centre slit. After all the hours of cutting and piece and quilting, you want me do do WHAT??? The proposed tree skirt came very close to becoming a table topper. I appreciate the care Rosina took in writing out the instructions. This is my first major pieced work (as opposed to the appliqué I usually do) I had no difficulty working step by step to completion.
Thank Rosina, for an enjoyable project!
November 28th, 2005, posted in Sewing
I finished sewing a little envelope to wrap some Christmas ornaments in. I had been wondering how to present them. Just sticking them in the card to fall all over when opened didn’t seem . . . well – finished! for some reason. This illustrates how much better I’ve been feeling lately. I sat at my table, measured and marked out a plan to make the wrapper. Aside from one blip in sewing (didn’t follow my own directions!) it fell together beautifully. To quote from one of my canary’s favourite explosion filled TV shows, “I love it when a plan comes together!”
It is too bad I only had one length of this beautiful ribbon. It is perfect for the case. If I had known I would be inspired to make this project, I would have bought pretty ribbon while down below. One never knows what ones brain will run with! Knowing me if I had bought ribbon it would be sitting in my ribbon box for the next 10 years – and I’d be lamenting not having some other much needed *now* item. Somehow, hearing others bemoaning that their craft/needlework store is ever so far away, when mine is 300 miles or internet order variety, leaves me a might unsympathetic!(And it is so hard on me to have made a number of ornaments and not be able to show them off! Hurry, mail deliver soon!)
May 15th, 2005, posted in Critters, General, Knitting, Sewing, Stitching
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas. – –Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Lately my life has been making as much sense as Groucho’s quote and I haven’t even had the pleasure of sitting down and enjoying a good banana. At least Wascol has a good handle on life.
Five months can go pretty fast when you are messing with medications. It is pretty frustrating to think you have found a keeper only to have side-effects surface. Considering it was my eyes swelling this was one side effect I wasn’t going to just live with. Somehow experimenting with new medications is not my idea of having a good time. But I am determined to relax and enjoy each and every moment . . . but I’ll give fair warning, “Don’t mess with my sleep patterns. I’m not very pleasant when I don’t get enough sleep!” (with the deepest most sincere apologies to Dave and Jeremy)
Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey that reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we live it. After all, Number One, we’re only mortal.
–Captain Jean Luc Picard Star Trek Generations Paramount Pictures, 1994
It seems all I have been doing is shifting piles of stuff from one part of the house to another. [same ol' same ol'!] But I here are some pictures to show not all has been lost.
‘my dog ate my yellow crayon’ by LBB 
I read recently on a blog that the best thing to knit at 0200 was squares or dishcloths . . . 
Funny how when I pulled this out this week it came together so easily; it is definitely a project you don’t want to tackle at the low end of living. Happy Birthday, Kale! Love Grummy-come-lately!
