Posted in Knitting, Quilting on Oct 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
There are so many hours in the day. So many of those are spent doing things which don’t make for good blogging. When the time comes when I can play, blogging keeps falling to the bottom of the list. Besides, if all I did in my free time was blog, what on earth would I [...]
Posted in Caffeine, Finished Objects, Knitting, Pyrex on Oct 20th, 2007 3 Comments »
Her name is Francis and she’s totally hot!
I’m going to drop that metaphor right there for fear of being spammed to death. M’s wanted a Francis, Francis since this weekend in 2005 when we saw one in a cooking store near Rhinebeck. We didn’t actually have to sell the children into slavery to buy this, and [...]
Posted in Quilting on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m completely exhausted and seriously cranky after a Crappy McCrapkins week at work. The last thing I thought would happen was exercise. But here I go, surfing before breakfast. I saw Pam’s scarf, and want to run to the sewing machine right this minute. There are also more fingerless mitts to knit, and quilts in [...]
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Quilting on Oct 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been sick, so as badly as I wanted to use my sewing machine, I knew that it was a recipe for disaster. I compromised and made a baby quilt from a kit I bought at Joanne’s. All I had to do is cut the matched fabrics and stitch them together in order. That proved [...]
Posted in Pets, Quilting, Sewing on Oct 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
I bought a new sewing machine last week. It was a difficult decision to make. I’ve had my sewing machine since 1981 and thousands of yards of fabric have passed over those feed dogs. I’d begun to notice that the percentage of profane words that pass my lips increases sharply whenever the sewing machine comes [...]
