Today is June 27, 2024. This blog will be a running commentary on my progress. I've been frustrated by so many interruptions and an overwhelming feeling that I'm not going to reach my easy goals of quilting old UFOs and refreshing my wardrobe. I have found if I just keep doing something until I just want to change directions as the day goes on, then start again tomorrow working a little more on what I'm trying to accomplish, a lot gets done.
So, I've been sitting with my little Bernette b38. I love this machine for sewing, which I have been doing for maybe a couple of weeks. I've almost finished a beige linen shirt; it just has a couple of threads to hide way. I'm very pleased with this shirt. It really has been a long time since I've worked on clothing. There was a time when everything I wore I had made it myself. I love being at my machine. I now have a pair of Strawberry red linen pants on the cutting table waiting for me to cut it out. I hope to be able to wear them to July 4th's picnic. They look celebratory!
By the way, this was a refurbished machine. I like buying refurbs; I've done it often. If the company is reliable, then its refurbs should be also. Great money saver!
So here is my linen shirt that I'm so pleased with. I've got my Strawberry linen pants cut out. Now, I haven't used my serger for a while, so I have to relearn how to use it. That's tomorrow's project.
July 2nd:
I've been busy and still have a lot of interruptions, but I'm making progress. I'm still working on the outside border of the "Home is Where the Heart is Quilt". That will still take quite a while, but I'm making progress. I've learned how to make quilt labels in Electric Quilt; that was a big challenge for me, especially after COVID back a few years ago, when my poor mind was not necessarily being challenged. That's not to say that I can make a label without the book, but I have a good idea how to do it. Big accomplishment! Those Strawberry pants I cut out. I just need to hem them. Yes, I'm back working on the seger; got that relearned. My Piecemaker Calendar quilt is still on the frame. No, I haven't worked on it. Hopefully, after the 4th of July, I can zero in on quilting it. That's my challenge, I would say. It will be tricky, as I have said (I think), because this quilt is too big for the frame. I think I will simply work on the blocks and do the borders on my sewing machine. I think that will work.
I think it is time to close this catch-up journal entry, will continue after the 4th.
All that I have put in this journal entry is a part of my counting blessings. So glad at my age I have so many things I can still do.
As always, counting my blessings,
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