I spent this afternoon stitching away on my machine making corn sacks for Saturday's sale. About three o'clock, I ran out of thread. A perfect excuse to take a quick trip to the quilt shop. I invited Emily to go along; and, soon we were on our way. Now, I couldn't just go right in and buy my thread, could I? We browsed through the beautiful and some not so beautiful fabrics. I oohed and awed over the browns and navies, burgundies, and tans. Emily sighed over the bright purples, pinks, and peacock blues. After fifteen minutes of pure pleasure, I paid for the rather unexciting off-white thread; and, we came home. As a side note, we saw the most beautiful cloud formation with the sun's rays just bursting out behind it just like the glory of God. I picture it to be something like that when Christ comes back only immeasurably better.
Well, when I got home, my sewing machine wouldn't work. I spent over an hour trying to fix it. Finally, I was able to make it sew with some skipped stitches. That simply wouldn't do. Ugh. What now? Well, I filled my bags half full of feed corn as planned. I then sewed along the seam line twice. Then, because it looked rather sloppy, I folded it over twice and pinned it. The rest of the evening was spent hand sewing the bags closed. Five down, six to go. I'm sure glad I know how to hand sew well! When it comes right down to it, sometimes the old ways are best.
Making do,
Laura
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
When It Comes Down to It, Sometimes the Old Ways Are Best
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I'm a breast cancer surviving, Jesus loving, retired homeschooling mom of four and wife to my high school sweetheart for 38 years...doing what I can with what I've got where I am
on a short shoestring budget!
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Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteIsn't it true! What is the saying...everything old, is new again! I too think that the old way is sometimes the best - tried and true. They probably look so pretty hand sewn anyway...:0)
Hugs,
Barb