Search

Sewing with less stress Front

Sewing with less stress Front
My newest sewing book

Sewing with less stress back cover

Sewing with less stress back cover
What my new book is about

Clothesmaking mavens

Clothesmaking mavens
Listen to me on the clothes making mavens podcasts

About me

My photo
I am a mother, a grandmother, and a teacher. But whatever happens in my life, I keep sewing. I have worked as a political communicator and now as a teacher in my formal life. I have also written extensively on sewing. I have been a frequent contributor and contributing editor of Threads magazine and the Australian magazine Dressmaking with Stitches. My book Sew.. the garment-making book of knowledge was published in May 2018 and is available for pre-order from Amazon
SIGN UP BELOW FOR BARBARA EMODI'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

FOLLOW

SIGN UP TO FOLLOW BARBARA EMODI'S BLOG "SEWING ON TH EDGE"

Follow me on Instagram

Instagram
Follow on Bloglovin

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Flypaper thoughts San Antonio edition


  • Really nice day walking around San Antonio Texas with my husband in a newly acquired cowboy hat and Daisy in a stroller
  • Yes he did
  • It was hot and he needed a hat 
  • And the next thing I knew
  • Suits him actually
  • Have you ever been there?
  • The downtown is like a limestone surface of streets
  • And walk down some stairs and it's Venice
  • River walks, sidewalks along narrow water no guardrails
  • Really like Venice
  • Who would have thought?
  • It was so beautiful I held myself back
  • Didn't suggest we find that fabric store
  • Filed that away in my personal account as a behavioural credit
  • Sure to be cashed in
  • Do you know there are roads in Texas that have an 85 mph speed limit
  • How good are you at serging in clear elastic in shoulders?
  • Working on a new top in the rv
  • Always tape my shoulders to stabilize but should do the elastic
  • When I try it I cut it into ribbons
  • Just lay in down and serge over it says Trudy
  • It lies down on her serger but jumps up on mine
  • Exactly the sort of thing I am in the rv to work out
  • In private and in another country
  • So if it takes forever to do right
  • We can keep it to ourselves
  • Interesting top
  • Sort of flared with pockets
  • For some reason it reminds me so much of one of the little bags old ladies have for clothespins
  • Like I wish I had
  • You know the ones with the bias binding that hang on a hanger
  • Well this one is going to hang on me
  • I am going to find it very handy when I hang out the wash at home
  • There is a man in this state park who rides a recumbent bike
  • He has a pole mounted across the back
  • And two Dobermans attached one at each end
  • Sort of like propellers on a plane
  • They fly around here while he whispers to them
  • Never have seen his wife yet
  • Probably in the camper wondering how she got here in her life
  • So glad I am not the mother with five small kids in a tent
  • Or do I wish I was
  • On second thought not sure
  • Pretty sure about the man on the recumbent bike
  • Lots of DYI around here but none involving flying dogs 
  • Yet
  • More like cooing to Daisy in a dog stroller
  • Short legs can only sightsee so far
  • My son in Austin keeps texting me
  • More fabric arrived here mom
  • Circling around back to Austin for 3 weeks
  • Staying in the vicinity means he can still live his life with us in town
  • When he can duck out and do that
  • Gives me time to think about clear elastic too
  • And find that fabric store
  • Believe I have a credit