Who are the folks (or perhaps critters) who benefit from your creative kindness?
Do you gift, teach, donate?
Thank you to bittersweet for explaining last month about making pads and blankets for pets who need comfort in cages, etc.
Rudolph Day, July 25, turned out to be situated right in the middle of our heavy Doctors' appointments week, so it passed without my attention to creative things. But I'm going to take that like Groundhog Day if it seemed shadowed that day ☁ then I figure I've got lots more weeks of creativity coming up!
Quick New Project!
I seamed up a flannel stuff bag for the blue yarn I am doing now to sort the blue heather color wool to play up later.
I it's good to separate it from the mixed colors in the prior batch that still needs to be plyed.
I am on to the last half of the first ply spinning on the drop spindle.
Doing the plying I am going to use the spinning wheel.
Writing is my other creative endeavor / a gift for the kids LH stories to go in a journal at some point hopefully.
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I made the card and felt creative brain stirring inside. I think the card is attractive and impressive, but I'm not that fond of it, perhaps because there are thousands similar to it online. The invitation used a bit of die cut paper cut from gold cardstock as a "vine" to hold the RSVP card to the invitation and I incorporated it into the inside which is blank so we can write in it. Used a bit of texture. Just noticed that the card front isn't as straight as it could be, but then it is hand crafted.
Would like some follow up time at desk, but should go downstairs a bit with dh.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better [wo]man. Ben Franklin
Nancy, does spinning take a lot of concentration or is it good for thinking time? Maybe you'll think up the blue project while you spin. I think that would be a pretty sight to be seeing turn into something new. Good job planning memory gifts for your children.
Glad you felt the little grey cells enjoying their exercise, Twins'! Nice to hear you say it looks that good. About fondness... ..We're fond of some because they make us smile in the first place, but then fond of others because they show how we've become capable, which makes us smile!
Seeing many online photos of one's chosen methods or colors or type can be inspiring, but I know what you mean about seeing so many too-similar ones. Remember when we used to have to buy magazines to get a good selection of new-technique photos AT ALL? And even then, didn't see our own favorite types that often. I remember keeping a magazine page open so long it would get creased, dreaming about how I would change whatever new kind of project was in their photo. Didn't have another photo to judge against it.
DgsonC came over for the "real grown-ups' lesson" he wanted, and I taught him what I used to start teaching the small groups for quiltmaking years ago. He had a 6-inch nine-patch to take home and one that will be its opposite pinned in parts on my design wall now for next time. His only problem was that he had somehow gotten the idea that a sewer is in a tugging match with the sewing machine! lol I had to keep convincing him it was alright to let the sewing machine pull the fabric, and as long as he had the seam lined up it would be fine.
Next time we'll learn making half-square triangles. If his two nine-patches work out to 6 inches each (I hope, lol), maybe I'll just figure out the math for taking a couple half-squares and making quarter square triangles of the same fabrics in two more 6-inch ones, and put the 4 he's made together to make a block. Even if he just wants to make that a pillow cover and stop before school starts, that is a win for me.
DgdaughterC is home from their vacation now, so I need to get better and then let her come over to sew.
Can't be at the baby shower after all, but I have made a nice bib pattern from a file folder and know how I'd like to make one. I will put up with my limitations right now and be satisfied sending a gift from the registry. Maybe a bib could be a home-from-hospital gift.
Harriet I can watch tv while I spin but if I do not pay attn. the yarn breaks and spindle drops to the floor,
so it is better for pod casts or talking show for just listening to.
My ddoggo hates it as she thinks I should be petting her instead of "playing" with my wool.
Got my spinning done for today and wound off a ball of it. Takes two or three days to get enough as I only do one carder full or two these days.
I have repainted a stool to go on the deck with a more vibrant color aqua it's drying now that was fun.
Have tried to post a little photo of the bib, but technology is not on my side. Can't get it to work - even to get it into my photos on my computer, which must be my fault. Maybe my brain is not hitting on all cylinders. Maybe later.
Aqua is such a calming color, Nancy. I bet you are going to love the stool. Dgd had expressed so much interest in a set of 5 AQUA nine-patch 6-inch blocks I have here that I've about decided to give them to her, or at least most of them. I want her to learn to make them herself, so I'll tell her to pick out a color from their alternating polka dot fabric that's not blue, and we'll make more to match. If I can just get these kids to feel confident in making steady, accurate seams, that will be half the battle of showing happiness in sewing.
Harriet that sounds lovely and a fun project.
I did get another ball of yarn spun up this week.
One more and the last ball of the blue heather color is spun up yea!
Working on a bit of the next color grey heather for the next is what I"m looking forward to!
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I will not finish the grey heather spinning before Sept. but that is okay it was a bonus project and
is coming along okay. Good for this last blast of heat to have something inside to do.
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Very much enjoyed teaching dgdC. She's younger than the grandson who wants to learn, but she's more careful. She did tell me she was surprised making a block (just a nine-patch) took so long. But I explained that Grandma spent a lot of time talking about being safe with iron and cutter. Honestly, that's all any of the adults I used to teach got done the first lesson anyway - just a nine-patch to take home.
The children tried 3 methods to get an accurate seam - tape for a line to follow, a foot that had a guide on its front, and the cheap magnet I bought back before I made dd's quilt.
By far, the magnet, which is so secure, was the most help to them. This is a good photo that shows the one I got, but most come with more in the package than just one thing, making them less expensive. Sort of wish I'd gotten a plain rectangle shape, but we'll see. I place it ahead of the foot so the children (or I!) can line the fabric up ahead and be on target with a quarter-inch seam.
I assume you need to keep the magnet away from the top of the machine if it is electronic.
if it seemed shadowed that day ☁ then I figure I've got lots more weeks of creativity coming up!
