On the dummy: An unfinished pirate shirt, an embroidered peasant top
that needs cut down in size, an odd little jacket I'm contemplating
something steampunky about, all of the Dear Hubby's shirts I need to
iron, but can't get to until the duct-suckers leave. (And my goodness,
aren't they a Decorative pair of young men!) There is a windbreaker
getting new cuffs, and a knitted scarf that's about 4 rows from casting
off sitting on my table beside the recliner. There's a giant
dreamcatcher-like object from a yard sale in the laundry room waiting
for a few new bits of suede ties to repair its webbing. There's an
amazingly small bundle of assorted mending on the to-do pile, just hem &
button repairs, dead elastics etc. 4 lengths of jewel-toned velvets in
a comforter's plastic zip-bag sitting on the Bowflex awaiting mail order
bias binding in colors I can't get from JoAnn's. Those will be Xmas
tree skirts & other holiday dress-things-up-by-swathing-them-in-color
objects. I just love the plastic bags that bedding comes in. They make
such good project bags! On the Work-On-This-Next-Pile: an Indian
embroidered tote bag that needs some interior pockets & dividers to be
usable, and a dead purse with a beautiful South American cross-stitch
panel I need to salvage. Heaven only knows what else I'm gonna find to
work on after I move everything back from where I stashed it so the
workmen could get at all the vents & the carpet cleaners can do their
thing! Which reminds me - where the devil did the fabric for the
black-out curtains for the recroom get to?
What's fizzing in my mind are quilt projects. Dear Hubby surprized me
with a stop at Quilt National on our daytrip to Athens Ohio last week,
and now a bunch of old ideas have come forward from the back of my head
and are jostling for attention I don't have time to give them. (argh!)
I don't generally much like contemporary textile art, but this show had
some extraordinary work. I need to get some sketches done before the
stimuli fades. Just what I need - another project!
And oh, yeah, the Autocrat for our shire's big mid-winter event wants to
have tabards for the servers & lots of hangings for the hall. The new
King is from here, & she wants to up our game.
Mary
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