It has been so long since I have been sewing.  Years of starting and not finishing, buying more fabric, starting something else…. it takes a toll on skill levels.  My ability rating isn’t raw beginner, here’s how you plug in a sewing machine! But, I’m telling you, laying out the fabric and taking shears to cut was scary! Well, to those who over think everything, it was!  Sewing pj’s has been a gentle nub back to the machine.

I have been eying those jumpsuits. With bunny feet sewn in they just might make a cold bed in the travel trailer worth crawling into.  What about grabbing two mini-dachshunds and firing them under the covers? One is usually covered nose to tail tip in mud and the other is too much of a princess to be used in such a harsh manner.  She insists I am the first into the bed; thus my need for a pink bunny suit.

Here 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!

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!)