Sunday, January 20, 2013
Progress?
Sadly, I have not ventured into the sewing room for more than a few minutes in the past week.
My husband's dust allergy has been rather active, so instead I've been vacuuming and dusting and spritzing things with allergen control spray, then mopping and wiping down.
Ohh. We Interrupt this Post for the Arrival of my Shiny New iPad..... (love air miles)
Right- two days later. The new iPad is shiny and white and so light I'm afraid it will float away if I don't keep a good grip on it. I'll have to procure a nifty case/lid/thingy for it at some point in the next few days. I installed Google Chrome on it, so now I can do tabbed browsing- something I really missed about Safari on the iPad. Games and music will be ported in gradually, as well, but for now I'm working with my Gen1 nd mostly admiring the new device.
Back to the sewing room. I ordered and retrieved some of these. One bench, one each of the storage cube units, and a few drawers to put in them. I'll be having Some Fun putting them together over the next few days. I'm also thinking about paint colors. The other sewing room is a very pale green
(I think its this color: http://tinyurl.com/asnkqv9) but I'm not sure I want that same color in the other room as well. Maybe a pale peach or yellow. I tend to buy paints that are as close to white as I can find, but I might do an accent wall in an actual color. We'll see.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Small successes
Over the past week I managed to achieve things!
First up was a couple hours of work in the sewing room. I'm cataloging my books and magazines, and this week I went through my Inspirations, Australian Smocking and Embroidery and Sew Beautiful collections. They're now in labeled magazine folders in order. This is one of those tasks that takes longer than it should because it's impossible for me to just sort the things: I have to stop and thumb through some of the issues.
I got most of the Holiday decorations dragged back to the basement, and cleared off a metal shelving unit that has been taking up space in our front room. Homes have been found for the things that were cluttering it up, and the shelf unit itself has gone up to the sewing room where it can be more useful.
I've stitched about another inch of Palestrina stitch on my Flip-Flop Needlebook case, but am stuck now because I have to add a new thread. I can't remember the process, so I have to experiment.
My daughter-in-law sent me home with a jacket which had lost about half its hem. I got that put back together for her last night, then realized the jacket was missing a button. I checked with her this morning and she said she hadn't been able to find it at home, so I toddled off to Joann's to find replacements. I wanted to use one of the funky La Mode Brocade designs, but it only comes in one size and I need two, so that was out. The experience made me wish I lived much closer to Britex, where they have an entire room full of button designs. Bet I could have found multiple sizes of cool buttons there! It's entirely possible that DiL would be just as happy that I had to choose something more subtle. She's not a funky or flashy gal.
After finishing that bit of mending I started on a more long-term project: making a plarn shopping tote. Last night I smoothed out blue plastic bags, cut them into loops and joined them to make a decent-sized ball of plarn. Sometime this week I'll start crocheting that into a bag using this pattern: http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2010/how-tuesday-how-to-make-plarn-crochet-an-eco-friendly-tote-b/
It's been a while since I've done any crochet, so I suspect this to take a while as a 15-20 minute at a time project. [The plastic has been deemed to be too noisy to be a tv project.]
First up was a couple hours of work in the sewing room. I'm cataloging my books and magazines, and this week I went through my Inspirations, Australian Smocking and Embroidery and Sew Beautiful collections. They're now in labeled magazine folders in order. This is one of those tasks that takes longer than it should because it's impossible for me to just sort the things: I have to stop and thumb through some of the issues.
I got most of the Holiday decorations dragged back to the basement, and cleared off a metal shelving unit that has been taking up space in our front room. Homes have been found for the things that were cluttering it up, and the shelf unit itself has gone up to the sewing room where it can be more useful.
I've stitched about another inch of Palestrina stitch on my Flip-Flop Needlebook case, but am stuck now because I have to add a new thread. I can't remember the process, so I have to experiment.
My daughter-in-law sent me home with a jacket which had lost about half its hem. I got that put back together for her last night, then realized the jacket was missing a button. I checked with her this morning and she said she hadn't been able to find it at home, so I toddled off to Joann's to find replacements. I wanted to use one of the funky La Mode Brocade designs, but it only comes in one size and I need two, so that was out. The experience made me wish I lived much closer to Britex, where they have an entire room full of button designs. Bet I could have found multiple sizes of cool buttons there! It's entirely possible that DiL would be just as happy that I had to choose something more subtle. She's not a funky or flashy gal.
After finishing that bit of mending I started on a more long-term project: making a plarn shopping tote. Last night I smoothed out blue plastic bags, cut them into loops and joined them to make a decent-sized ball of plarn. Sometime this week I'll start crocheting that into a bag using this pattern: http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2010/how-tuesday-how-to-make-plarn-crochet-an-eco-friendly-tote-b/
It's been a while since I've done any crochet, so I suspect this to take a while as a 15-20 minute at a time project. [The plastic has been deemed to be too noisy to be a tv project.]
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