A friend who looked at a picture of this thought it looked like monkeys' faces. I had put together the center of this, then stopped, because I thought I had no more butterfly fabric - then, of course, I found some -four small pieces - just enough for borders. I have about 2" by 20" left now. Then, sitting right beside my machine was some navy blue twill. I bought it in the remnant bin at the quilt shop to use for soldiers' quilts, but it just wasn't the same 'hand' as regular quilting fabric. But it was a great color match for this one, so I cut backing and batting, spray-basted, quilted and bound it yesterday. The binding was sewn with navy on top, and cream on the bottom, to match the backing. I have to say that this is the best binding I have ever done, and since it was so close to perfect, I actually picked out three small places where the cream stitching went over onto the navy and redid them. Beauty! My stairwell
My son and his family are staying with us while they empty, move, and clean their over-100-yrs-old house. We have helped, and it has sold. Both my son and his wife are do-ers. They see something that needs done, and they fix it. My husband and I are more of the wait-and-see, contemplate-options, don't-rush-anything sort. This morning, for example, my son was blowing leaves and dust out of the garage and off the driveway and patio. No one asked him to. I don't like to do that because of my allergies, and Jer moves more slowly these days. Yesterday we reorganized my sewing room. It all started with a tv. There was an old tv in my sewing room, but we had cancelled DirectTv, and it couldn't receive anything. I said they could move it into the other room to connect their game console for the kids. So they moved the console it was sitting on, which, by the way, had a bunch of VCR tapes. (We no longer have a VCR player.) Anyway, so there was a gap along the wall. So my son sugges...
Gothic Lace Doily by Elizabeth Ann White There is only one row remaining to do, and have about 12" of thread left. But I think it looks fine just as it is. It was not lying flat until I wet-blocked it. Super easy to do - finished it in 2 days
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