Flypaper fly by

• Have done some sewing but no time to blog
• Leave for 2.5 months in Florida day after tomorrow
• Packing the RV in the driveway and continuing what passes for normal life
• Question
• Should I take UFOs or new stuff to make?
• Some of those UFOs have at least 5,000 miles on them already
• There and back and the sleeves still not in
• Never under estimate the power of a good garment
• True story here
• Last weekend my 88 year old mother was woken up in the middle of the night
• Woman at the door was battered and said the Hell's Angels were after her
• What did my mother do?
• Exactly what any good Christian with not a brain in her head would
• Let her in, called the police, and called the woman's mother
• Her mother would want to know
• All ended well by the time the cruisers left
• Apart from the nearly giving my sisters and I a stroke when we heard this
• Why, why did you do this mom?
• Don't you watch the news?
• "I knew she was not a bad person" said my mother.
• "How could you possible tell that?" I asked
• "She was wearing a good coat," said my mother
• I forgot to ask what the fabric was
• And you wonder where I got it from
• My youngest is still on tour in Peru
• And everyone thinks I wake up at night and can't get back to sleep because of my age
• Actually it's their age
• Big snowstorm forecast for when we drive into Boston and when I was planning to see my kids in NYC
• There would have to be one big pile of snow before I drive past New York without a site visit
• I think they might be afraid of that
• My own grandmother was a Winnipeg snowshoe champ in her day
• If you have ever stood on Portage and seen the police in buffalo coats you know that is no joke
• That woman was riding around in the bus in nylons, a mink coat, zip up overshoes and a plastic rain hat at -50 into her early 90s
• The insulating value of a good tight perm and button earrings
• I have decided to redefine my own style
• That's as far as I've got so far
• Some of the ladies in the sewing guild are brave
• Inspired me to try arty
• First time
• Made Cutting's Easy, ageless and cool pants
• Magnificent instructions
• Not sure that I have not produced what my dad would have called Whoopee pants
• When I slow down enough for pictures you can tell me
• BTW best sewn item of 2015 was a sleeping mask
• Makes the difference between sleeping like a rock and like a skipping stone
• Think of Miss Daisy and I driving down in an RV full of unfinished projects towards the sun
• Will have time then to post of the journey
• Now back to packing