- Thanks to all who offered to be my interfacing purchasers
- Many thanks
- I have decided to order Sewers Dream from B.C. and try that
- And get other stuff ordered when I am next in the US
- That's plan A and B will let you know
- Spring here seems to have come and gone before lunch yesterday
- Judging by today
- Summer came and went in the afternoon
- Pretty grey here and wet for more or less forever
- Hardly notice these things
- Weather in the sewing room is usually pretty constant
- But the vegetable gardener is pacing
- Something about the ants
- And germination
- The biggest ants have moved into the house
- We are conflicted
- As my husband says they are so big they feel like pets
- They are always carrying their dead away
- Like the Marines I guess, none left behind
- We find this quite moving
- How can we flush such pathos down the drain?
- So now we are carrying them out on a wooden spoon to the outdoors
- The rigid and the loyal
- Where presumably they go eat the seedlings
- Until my fusible arrives I am basting in sewn in
- Kind of like basting
- Easy on the mind
- Do you ever get fevers to sew something totally unrelated to the 14 things you have piled up
- In the next to sew stack?
- Suddenly I want to make bags
- Damn that Facebook
- I was going to swear off it totally ever since my FB acquaintance
- Posted that picture of the lost sock she found attached to her sheet from the dryer
- This is news?
- This is what social media is adding to my life?
- I mean isn't that where we all keep our one socks?
- You know the mates for the ones you just threw out because they had been kicking around the drawer solo for months?
- Then before I quit
- All these groups I joined post pictures of things they make
- All these handbags now with blush hardware and floral prints
- That wouldn't go with anything I wear or use
- My handbags have to be able to live on the floor of the car so kids can walk on them
- Just under the ice scrapper for the car window
- Or be thrown in the grocery cart
- But still these bags are so pretty and I want to make one
- But I am so behind in my production
- These days what I give for birthdays are promises
- Got to deliver or I will get a reputation
- Speaking of which
- The nicest thing happened this week
- One of the kids asked my to take off my jacket so her friend could feel my muscle
- So I stood there in the schoolyard with seven year olds feeling my bicep
- Those vintage machines are not light you know
- And then when we went home the youngest asked me to juggle a jar or peanut butter and a jar of jelly
- Which I did
- Let's say if you try this at home
- May I suggest plastic containers
- Got a good laugh though
- And got it cleaned up before the real boss came home
- I guess I was still excited about the bicep thing and got carried away
- Which can happen at any age
- Count on that
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- 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
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Flypaper thoughts after supper edition
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4 comments:
Pity there isn't a video of the juggling!Totally identify with the pile and going off-piste. I have two wedding dresses to finish, and have been making pom pom accessories instead. Still, I have a couple of weeks before the wedding, and the pom poms could adorn the reception venue. Unlike the dresses, it doesn't matter if they come out lopsided, which is probably why they're so attractive. And they are lovely rainbow colours!
Delightful sounds so old-fashioned, but it's the word that springs to mind whenever I read your blog. I am filled with delight. :)
I frequently experience the phenomenon of being suddenly inspired to sew something completely different when I'm looking at a pile of projects in various stages of unfinished-ness. Usually these great ideas require masses of new tools and supplies, YouTube videos, books and patterns. I am a very experienced procrastinator!
I try not to plan too far in advance because I do tend to get drawn off into a new idea rather than completing a pile of planned projects. Cutting out 5 things and sewing them all up will never happen to me.
Love the pet ants story.
ceci
It's not spring here until we get ants! I recently noticed the 'dragging off the dead ant thing' very curious, but it hasn't stopped me from stomping on them.
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