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Happy sewing.

Flypaper thoughts after supper edition

• 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