I shoulda stayed in bed!

I worked all yesterday morning on the windmill piece, thought it was looking pretty good . .  until I realized that I had machine zig zagged down five of the nine vanes I’d applied (out of 18 required) in the wrong position! If you sew, you know what a bitch it is to rip out zigzag [...]

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Home again, home again, jiggety-jig!

I have been home long enough to catch up on the laundry and at least some of my sleep, get bloodwork done, change the oil and wash the truck, venture out to the yard sales I mentioned, spend an afternoon shopping with a friend in London and do some cooking and baking. Of course, if I [...]

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Ulysses who?

So at 9:00 a.m., Thursday. August 14, we left here in my bright orange, 2004 Ford Sport Trak Explorer loaded with a big old dresser, wrapped in a green tarp, various pieces of farm equipment designed to attach to the 1950’s era Ford tractor we trailered up to Ed’s daughter’s in Thunder Bay last summer, [...]

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When I itches . . .

So – let me see now, what was it got in the way of working last? Oh, yes! I got up one morning and decided to go get the fasting bloodwork my GP ordered done and go to the clinic for help with my galloping exzema. My daughter came along to do some errands which [...]

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Look, up in the sky!

So I’ve spent most of the afternoon doing this:

Actually that isn’t quite what I wanted to show you. Most of that was done already. I just added the gold part and the darker strip of horizon today. Then I made a piece of machine quilted green stuff to add to the bottom as a “bean [...]

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Oh *F*, another learning experience – just what we needed today!

My back decided to degenerate a little further this weekend so I’ve been next to immobile. Didn’t get downstairs yesterday until 3:00, possibly a personal “best” if you discount post surgical periods.
So I worked on the windmill piece . . . sort of.  I learned that the people who use “fabric paper” probably work small. [...]

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