Thought I would show you that my iron and board live in my living room until I am done. Fortunately, we do not “live” in the living room, so it’s not in the way. This arrangement is much easier than endlessly walking between the laundry area in the kitchen and my sewing desk. I still…
This photo is from a couple days ago. It’s probably half done now, so the length is half of a twin bed. I have no photo of it, but “I” of GAIN has finished her first nine patch quilt block. She is into Felicity, the American Girl, so sewing by hand has been her passion.…
The batting in my trunk is all narrow strips. No memory of why. Fortunately, batting was 50% off at LFS (local fabric store) — $4.99 before sales tax. I cut some more brown frames from the last of my remnants. I’ll need more. No appropriate remnants at LFS. Will check a couple other places before…
I unstacked my blocks, spread them on Mr. GAIN‘s old bed sheet from high school (conveniently printed with a 2″ x 2″ grid), and figured that 54 blocks will work. I swapped seven or six blocks with a tiny edge of fabric for blocks with beefier edges. And the one block I had under the…
I spent ten hours working on scrapbook pages at New Life Church. It was a fundraiser crop (freewill offering) for their youth group’s upcoming Appalachia mission trip. Although we have a new printer/scanner/copy machine, I decided to photograph my work from that day. Much faster. I loved getting a bunch of pictures out of storage…