I cut fabric—a skirt, two tote bags. Mused over other projects. Dug through my supplies. Needed a few things. Got dressed.
Bath and Body Works: new shower sponge
Home Depot: curtain
rods and hydrangea food
Costco: returns, plus
olive oil and honey
Post Office: mail letters that wouldn’t fit in our condo’s
outgoing mail slot
Taco Time: a girl’s gotta eat
Joann’s: 1/8 of a yard of denim, some Heat ‘n Bond, a
magnetic purse clasp (Don’t look! Don’t look at all the pretty things! I
looked.)
Car wash: ‘nuff said
Bank: deposit checks
Project: I applied
Heat ‘n Bond to the denim and then cut letters out of the fabric with my
Sizzix, then ironed them on to the bottom portions of legs of pants I had cut
off (I do a lot of cutting off of legs of pants for some of my family members),
sewed up one end and across the corners to make a rectangle-shaped bottom,
added a cord and a handle, and made cute little initial bags. I can’t show a photo because someone is
getting those for a gift!
Oops, I should have bought ¼ yard of denim. I forgot I needed some for the strap of
another tote bag that I didn’t have quite enough fabric for. Made do.
I also put out a Facebook call, plus one strategic email, for scraps of
polyester fleece batting that I can use for the tote bags. It needs hardly any, and I didn’t want to
purchase a whole piece when I just need a few smallish squares. Three different people have offered me their
leftovers! This is why crafters are
hoarders. I once needed some wine corks
for a project (believe it or not, I didn’t have enough of my own), and a friend
gave me a huge bag of them. The things
people keep on hand!
A good friend and I have an outing tomorrow. We chatted online about what we’ll do; it’s
so seldom that we both have daytime hours free at the same time. So fun to make plans! When I get tired of working on projects, I
check Facebook, play online Scrabble or Solitaire, or read articles I have
saved.
Darrel came home. We played a game, he napped, I puttered
some more, he woke up, I made dinner, he put the sash rods on the French doors
to the craft room, and we ate and played another game.
Oops, I should have bought a full yard of the denim. I forgot I needed some to make a two-fabric
child’s dress. I keep picking up pieces
of fabric and patterns that I want to make work, but I don’t have quite enough
of something to do that project, so I
set them back down. An hour later, I do
it again. There must be some way to make this work, I think, but
alas! not without another trip to Joann’s.
Project: I made sash
rod curtains for the French doors out of a piece of novelty tapestry fabric
that I love and bought some time ago for this purpose. They actually went together pretty fast, in
spite of my error. I ripped a piece of
muslin in half to use for the lining, but I did something wrong and it didn’t
rip evenly (usually it does). Or maybe the piece wasn’t a perfect rectangle to
begin with. I don’t know. So now I have unlined sash rod curtains!
It doesn’t really matter because the unlined side faces the
craft room, and when I am in there, I always have the door open anyway. My youngest daughter may have to sleep in the
craft room when she visits this summer (we’re expecting lots of company); now at
least she’ll have some privacy. And now
it doesn’t matter how messy the craft room is any more because, if the doors
are closed, no one can see in. I really
like the way they turned out—playful but polished.
Tomorrow: sewing in
the morning, outing in the afternoon, sewing in the evening. I hope to be a sewing machine. Ha ha! I crack myself up sometimes, especially at 11
p.m.
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