A Little Yarn On The Side

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I can't believe it's almost been a month! So, quick updates:  I found a way to fix the green spicy spiral!  The wedges need to be cut with the stratas going opposite directions, but I cut the first set going the same direction.  BUT, I had just enough fabric to create a fifth strata set and, double-checking everything, cut a new set of wedges in the right direction and was able to get it finished!  Really, this is the best pattern EVER.  Here's a better picture of the one in purple for my friend, which she loves. There was a time when I thought I would make quilts or shawls for each friend as they turned 50, but then I remembered how many really good friends I have.  So, it's table-runners! The kittens have taken to sewing like pros: and over the holidays we've made pajamas for both Andy and I, some new towels, and a new chiffon jacket for me.  Part of the reason for this sewing fren...

There comes a time when innocent people completely forget the horrors of moving, and in a moment of insanity--possibly brought on by noise, too many neighborhood rentals, high winds, and traffic congestion--decide to pack up everything they own and pay twice the estimate to large men who will scratch every stick of furniture and crush well-marked fragile boxes as they move it across town, where the gullible innocents will be so traumatized by the process that they will be unable to send out the annual holiday letter…. When I say that we moved in 2017, between cleaning and prepping the old house, selling it, finding a new house, all the negotiations and unpacking, it really does seem it’s what we did with the entire year.  Probably because it’s mostly true.  Toward the end of the year I was finally able, after 5 years of physical therapy, to return to outside sales, and I now sell business signs for an old client of mine.  We had to say goodbye to our oldest cat shorty a...

 The 50th birthday gift for my friend was finished yesterday! and I couldn't be happier.  I bought a set of 8 fat quarters from Craft Warehouse to make this, then ended up not liking one of the colors because it was just too jarring, so the ginormous fabric stash came to my rescue!  Yes, I did have other purple fat quarters on hand.  I don't think I'm learning good stash lessons here.  I was sewing the next strata together while working on the first one to be ahead on big gifts, so I got the 4 strata done and ironed and ready to cut... and totally messed up the cutting--to the point that it can't be a spicy spiral runner.  Oh yeah--it's in the Project Timeout bin right now and I am sulking with my knitting.  Sure, I make mistakes knitting as well, but frogging fixes almost everything......Too bad life isn't like that.