Not Bad if I Do Say So My Self

Not bad for 12 days after a Bi-Lat. I’m actually hindered more by the new Bernina repair guy who just adjusted my machine, then from the surgery. Joe from Elgin Illinois where the heck are you? No one could adjust my 1976 Bernina like you could. Please come back somewhere.

It’s Not the Circumstances but Rather the Attitude that Defines Happiness

“It’s not circumstances but rather attitude that defines happiness,” a badly paraphrased quote from The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (okay so one draw back to reading on an electric reader is that if you don’t highlight right away, it's almost impossible later to find the passage.) But the quote fits the day. I’m facing surgery today, so I must say this block is not my best work, but wow did it keep my mind in a better place yesterday. So it’s back to “Hop to it” on several fronts.

Bucket List Check off 6/100

Copper Frost

Note to self… when mass producing gift items don’t leave the task you least like doing until last, because in doing so you will find so many other weird and wonderful sewing projects to do instead.

Enter weird and maybe not so wonderful, but imaginative sewing diversion. Again I need to preface entries with the inheritance stash. I’m basically a Williamsburg Blue, Cherry Red kind of gal, but I’ve inherited a stash from an Art Quilting friend. I also hate the word stash. When you’re Williamsburg Blue and Cherry Red it goes without saying that your quilting tilts towards the traditional. What’s more traditional than using every bit of fabric from your 30 year accumulation of conservative buying? So, this inherited piece of copper frost has been a challenge that I had to meet. The cape was intended to be an elegant wrap for maybe a special night out at the opera, but it’s taken on a more Oriental / Harry Potter/ Merlin connotation…Wow, but isn’t that the essence of imagination….I like it!!! Okay back to work.

I may have to move into a childhood dream of mine...puppet making.....to be continued. (5/100)

Bucket List Check Off.....4/100

Bucket List Check off ....2/100

I use to be such a Samantha purist, and would only create outfits that were of the era. Notice the book entitled Children’s Fashions 1900-1950. Oh how I painstakingly researched each dress. Well I’m older, and have inherited a stash that is stretching my imagination. When I spied this wild print visions of gypsies danced in my head, and why shouldn’t Sam have the ability to play dress up. Things couldn’t have been all that different at the turn of the century….. au boulot as the French would say so the fun’s over back to work I go on the gifts…..In-between I hope to create 100 different doll dress…. Why? Just because I can….

Because I Can't and Because I Can

BECAUSE I CAN'T
Sewing up a storm, but they are all gifts so I can’t post…
BECAUSE I CAN
In another life I made American Girl Doll Clothes. I've saved a few just in case another VIP little girl crosses my path someday and
I Inherited a stash that is inspiring me on to my bucket list check off of making 100 dresses.

PS Dear Jane has been tucked away, doll dresses have become my palette cleaner du jour….. .