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| Tiger and Penny Yes, Tiger outweighs Penny! |
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| The chaos I call sewing. |
Here I am. Day four. Once again, it was hard to come and get started. I knew that I needed this challenge. I also needed the accountability that you ladies so sweetly give me. Tonight, I started tired and with a headache. But. I. Shall.
I read the pattern again and noticed that I needed two more pieces of fusible woven interfacing. I cut those first. Then, I began fusing the interfacing. Well, I would have if I had not just plugged in the iron but turned it on! Did I mention that I don't think well with a headache?
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| The pretty cutting picture |
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| Keeping it real in the cottage. This is thrifty. Someday, maybe God will provide a new one. For now, this still works. Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without! |
I've been making little tiny bits of progress this week. I'm using my minutes. I get a three day weekend for Labor Day. Thank you, Jesus! I plan to finish this bag by Monday evening. I cannot wait to show you (and me) the finished bag! I may need to check my yarn stash for something fallish!
Tonight, I finished cutting the fusible interfacings and applied them. I used fusible fleece for the outer fabric and woven fusible interfacing for the lining.
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| I'm a barefoot sewist. I like to feel the pedal to have better control of my stitching. |
I now have the casing for the cord basted on the top. It's way past my bedtime. I'm done for now. I'll be back with my Saturday progress.
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| I'm getting excited. |
I had helpers tonight. Here's Paco. He likes to sit in his basket on my desk. He's my son's dog, but he comes to visit often. He is like velcro with his grammy.
Oh my, if not for y'all, I would not have made progress with my project bag tonight. I woke up really early—about 4:15 this morning. I had to get up by 5:00, so I went ahead and climbed out of bed. It's 8:41 now. I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open.
This is what I'm using for the drawstring. I was going to cut it tonight, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to use black or white. I'll wait until the rest of the bag is finished. It's a set of replacement drawstrings for hoodies or pants. It was $6.99 on Amazon, and I've already used it for some projects. It works great. It has a bit of stretch. It came with a marvelous threader. I'll show it in one of my future posts. Best of all, I had it on hand. Everything has been from my stash of sewing supplies.
I didn't do much tonight, but I did something. I'm going to count that as a win.
A couple of final thoughts...
And as you can see, I didn't give up chocolate today!
Day three down. I'm getting ready for bed!
Blessings,
Laura
Sewing Through September
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It started out with a great plan. Sew every day in September. After all , September is National Sewing Month in the United States. Last night, I went through my fabric and found some pretty fabric that has candy corn on it. I'm planning to make a project bag with it. It's laying on my table already to iron and cut.
Then, today happened. I came home from work exhausted. ,
Truthfully, that's not unusual for me. When I got home, my husband told me that he needed a button sewn on tonight before his business meeting. So, I'm taking the easy way tonight. I'm counting on sewing on his button as my sewing for the first of September.
Kind of pathetic, I know.
Do you ever come up with plans? Then you find yourself just too tired to do them, that's me tonight.Tell me about how you handle things like this. Do you push through?Do you give yourself a break? I'm just wondering
I'll do my best post again tomorrow.
Do you sew?
Do you want to join me?
BRING ON THE 'BER MONTHS!
Not much going on here right now. My husband had surgery a few days ago to replace his shoulder. He's recovering as expected, but the medication is making him feel weird.
I've been dealing with a foot issue for a few months. I've been getting injections in my foot. Unfortunately, there was a lot of walking while I was at the hospital. My body tried to compensate for the foot pain. Now it hurts to walk, and I'm a bit unsteady on my feet.
My daughter Emily, the now grown up writer of Teen for the Lord in days past, came and helped us yesterday. She helped with cleaning and with taking care of her dad. It was a great blessing to us.
Today, we're taking it easy. Tomorrow, Lowell will have his first post-op physical therapy. I must work, but I'll take off long enough to take him to his appointment. Fortunately, therapy is here in town.
I know that I am helping by working to pay off our car, but I miss the days of being available when my husband or my kids need me. After so many years as an at home wife and mother, this is very different. I hope the sacrifice of not being here with him will be worth it in the long run. It doesn't feel like it right now.
I hope that sacrificing now to pay off debt will allow him to retire sooner. We shall see.
Well, that's all for now. I'm going to start getting ready for the week ahead. I work in a pediatrics clinic. The parents who didn't get their kids in for physicals this summer are going to want an appointment this week. We'll do what we can.
We've also entered the start of what my boss calls respiratory season. It's also called sick season. We've seen several cases of hand, foot and mouth, and we've also seen our first flu and covid cases. I'm glad I sit behind the glass and away from the kids.
All for now. Please pray for Lowell and I to both heal. I want to take good care of him.
Warmly,
Laura
I love learning! I love learning new things. Over the years, I've learned to quilt, bake bread, can, sew, crochet, knit, cross-stit...
