Art, Craft and Needlework, June 2023

[Harriet]

What is making your eyes light up this month?

What's the interesting plan rattling around in your head when you daydream? We know it's there!

Creativity makes the world go 'round! Indulge yours today!

[Nancy]

Harriet that wrap dress pattern with three armholes
was a vintage one McCalls 9119 or Butrick 4699.
I did not find a link but should be easy enough to look up.
I pinned one on pintrest too. Not sure how much yardage it would take hoping 3 would do it.

Did some mending ripped sleeve seams out of a tee shirt for comfort leaving em open getting coverage I like and sun protection plus
more airflow in summer time.

[Nancy]

This week I am working up a star shaped dish cloth to get one in the right size.
I have it half done now.
I am getting better at remembering this pattern I had memorized before.
It was time for a renew, I'd done so many during the c-19 years I have not knit any for quite a while.

I have 2 dog food bags to upcycle for an apron and tote bags.
We found these on our walks!

[Nancy]

It is sewing Mach. day today!

[Twins' Mom]

I would really love to sit down and make a few cards. I still have two graduation cards to do and other cards that I "should send" have been bouncing off my head. A thank you note to our hosts at the B&B would be nice too.

[Harriet]

Another pair of pants is at the right hem length now. These are black and possibly that is the most helpful to the wardrobe. However, we are nearly to mid-summer right now so maybe not so much, lol. Needing light colors now! A top with long sleeves has occurred to me as a good choice to hem that sleeve length, too.

Twins', did you get some grad cards done?

Nancy, did the dish cloth come out right? I get frustrated when I had a method memorized and then it's been too long and I forget! Really a blessing to have youtube and to have kept magazines or whatever notes I had on how tos.

[Nancy]

One dishcloth did turn out good, the next one is a but wonky but no one but me would notice so I will leave it. Thanks for asking.

[Twins' Mom]

Two graduation cards done, although they're still sitting on the kitchen counter, unmailed by dh. [pout] I might try to make more over the weekend and be set for next year. I have one stamp I usually use that is a graduation cap with the tassel and it gets stamped on a small panel for the front of the card, typically with coordinating designer paper and layers on the front. The inside gets a simple congratulations, but I do decorate the inside too with a side or bottom strip of dp that coordinates with the front.