The sewing room. I've been working on it for over a week! This video is of the room AFTER I have cleaned out crap, cleaned off the my desk, have the heavy stuff put where I want it. This is not complete because the shelves need to be arranged after I get pretty storage containers.
In addition to getting nice storage containers and other organizers for the shelves, I will be doing some decorating. I'm going to make a skirt to go around the table, going to change out the room curtains, going to put curtain thingies over the shelves and around the big storage shelf unit. My dream sewing room will, I hope, end up looking something like this picture. I am currently looking for the oilcloth to cover the table (my old ratty office type work table up on bed risers. I will also have to do the patchwork to make the skirt. I'm thinking that will take me a couple o fdays but I think I have enough leftover fabric to do it.
I'll post another picture of the sewing room after I'm finished.
So, what else have I done? Let me see. I finally finished great great niece Brynnan's quilt. Now I need to get it to her. I've been holding off seeing her because I don't want to make her ill, but I think I'm finally over whatever I had enough that I won't cough on her. I'm inserting a picture of the quilt I made for her. The first picture is of the front, the second picture is the back. The top was made from a kit I purchased at a quilt show a couple of years ago. The frog fabric on the back was purchased at the Dallas Quilt Show, but I can't remember if that was 2011 or 2012.
In addition to sewing and putting the room together, I've also been going to doc appointments (two more this coming week - one on Monday, one on Tuesday), and I'm becoming active with the United Daughters of the Confederacy as well as my Daughters of the American Revolution chapter. I've been nominated for membership in the Fort Worth Women's Club and have been enjoying doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I retired! That is, meeting friends at "the club" for shrimp or chicken salad lunches (there are other choices). It's been really nice. This is some of the stuff I refused to get involved in throughout the years because I never felt "good enough" although my families have been rather involved in the goings on of this town since before the 1860's. Problem is, I find I don't have the clothes to wear to these things! I'm a retired engineer. Unless we had meetings we didn't dress up any more - I wore jeans and tennis shoes to work!
SO, I may have to get out some of the patterns I've got and start making a few things.
Ken and I went to the stock show - not the rodeo. We actually found some boots for me! I wear of boots and boot-type shoes because of my deformed, partially amputated foot. I wanted some of those cute rubber boots - we found some that fit me. I also wanted some pink top boots - western sorta - and we found some to fit me! I won't be able to wear them on days when my feet are so swollen, but I can put them on in the morning and wear them until mid afternoon and that will help stretch out the leather ones. The rubber ones won't stretch but there's a secret to them. The vendor put a "sizer" in them so that they are tighter on me when I first get up. When they start feeling tight I can take out the sizer and the boots will fit my foot when it's a little puffy.
I am so thrilled with my sewing room. At last I have a place where the ironing board can be set up - or I can take it down and store it in the walk-in closet. Ken and I cleaned out that closet yesterday so now I have even MORE space. I'm going to sell the big board ironing apparatus that fits over the ironing board to my friend Rachel. She wants one - she actually wants her husband to make one, but she says if I'm getting rid of this one she wants it. I'm going to sell it to her for $50 because I had to pay $70 for it at the FW quilt show in 2011.
Today I'm working on a little quilt that has been in my to do pile for at least two years. I thought it would be simple to do but nothing ever is. It is a cheater patchwork top made out of blocks that are blues, yellows, light green - baby colors - and the fabric is chenille. I'm backing it with yellow flannel (because that is what I had on hand and I refuse to buy more). Not sure I'm goig to be able to part with this one after it is done because it is too stinking cute. I don't mind giving it to someone I know and love but not sure I can stand giving it to the mission and seeing it dragged in the dirt. My heart needs to become more "giving."
That's it for now. Hope everyone is doing well. I miss my children and grandchildren and always will. I long to see them...wish they would come driving in the driveway and ringing the bell.
