I have been working on the reserved signs for church. I thought I would add a picture of one that is complete. It takes 2 hours or more to complete one. Such a long time for such a small piece of work! I have 16 of them to do. Right now I am trying to embroidery all of them with the words. They are identical on the backside. My goal is to finish them by the end of the week so that I can begin the work on the bridesmaid gowns and brides slip. Of course there are other projects waiting in the works.















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The basketball teams jackets are done! On to finish embroidering the reserved signs!

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I am sewing, sewing, sewing. Oops I mean I am embroidering, embroidering, embroidering. I have 9 jackets for a youth basketball team to embroider their team emblem and names. I have 5 done. I have 16 reserved signs to embroidery and make for church. I have 5 embroidered. I alterated a pair of pants for a young man about to be married. I should be cutting out my gown, but, alas I am going cropping tonight at church with my daughter and some ladies. I am slowly, oh so slowly working on another pair of socks.

Remember, when you forget to mail in your vehicle registration renewal (or to do it online) when you go into the DMV take your knitting, or a book, or something! 1 1/2 hours of wasted time! Believe me people watching at the DMV is disgusting. What is it with perfectly lovely young ladies who insist on wearing jeans cut too low and too tight. It makes their butts look big and square. It is not attractive. It ain't even sexy. And young ladies that might otherwise be lovely with men's clothes on! Ladies, listen, look in a mirror. I am not claiming to be the best dressed lady in the universe, but, I don't dress like a boy and I try to be neat in my appearance. The guys were dressed better than the girls there. Also, why are all the clerks at the DMV female? Why doesn't a man work there?

Well, that's enough ranting for today. Sew Long for Now.

I have been absent due to painting, rearranging, and decluttering. The heavy stuff has now been done. I am down to hanging a few things and making curtains. I am searching high and low for material for curtains, a chair seat, and new comforter for our room. The walls are dark green and I have the Lane cedar chest I got for high school graduation in there. It has a padded top that is a cream background with a red and gold flower theme on it. I would like to find something with red and gold in it and maybe a dash of green. For the sewing room I have the material, I just have to make them then I will move the curtains in that room to the oldest son's room. The other room I need material for is our youngest son. His room is a medium green. I want something boy looking without being babyish. I would like it to have black, blue, and green in it. His bed is black and his bedding is blue.

I cut out a pattern for a gown for me on Sunday night. Simplicity 4891. I have been embroidering the reserved signs. My sewing room is filling up with work to do. I have to be diligent to get it done.

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Today is Captain Kitty's birthday! She had a nice day. Cake, flowers and presents.



Happy Birthday Sweetie!















I also cut out 16 pieces of fabric to make reserved signs for the church. They want them embroidered on both sides and fringe added. I finished one of the aprons I cut out last night.





















Isn't it just beautiful. It looks so Spring! The next one I make will have purple bias.

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This evening I let out some pants for a customer. Since I have so much work to do for customers I decided to try doing a little customer work and a little fun work each day. After I did that I cut out four of the cutest aprons. They are a simple bib type apron, but, the material is so SPRING! The material is covered in purple and yellow pansies. It has just enough hint of gold to set it off. I want to trim them in bias. I think I will get some purple and some yellow. One I will be sending to a friend who loves yellow and I will trim that one in yellow. I think I will trim 2 in yellow and 2 in purple.

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Sadly, I didn't make it to the ASG meeting. I have battled a terrible cold. Now, I can breath out my nose, but, my ears feel full, like they have water in them or something. Robert keeps saying I have a sinus infection and I need to go to the doctors...I really would prefer to get over this without a visit to the doctor.

I have not done any sewing since being sick. I did finish up the socks I was knitting. I started a new pair.

We went into remodel mode here. We are moving 4 rooms around and decluttering a 5th. This weekend they moved my sewing room into our oldest son's room. They then painted and carpeted the old sewing room/office and moved our bedroom in there. This week we are painting and carpeting our old room and moving our youngest son in there. After that we will paint and carpet our youngest son's old room and it will be our oldest son's room. After all this we need to declutter the laundry area because all this stuff is being stored there.

It also snowed here yesterday.
This was the view from our front porch this morning.

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This last one is of the fun fur necklaces.

Another picture.

Well, I got something from the children and have been sick. I do have some pictures of what I did on Super Bowl Sunday. We had our Sunday School class over to watch the game. The men watched, the children played, and the women crafted. We made necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. I forgot to take a picture of the earrings I made. I will have to get one of those later. I am praying I will feel better by Thursday. I want to go the the ASG meeting. It will be a trunk show of quilts!

I wanted to post some pictures of my scarf I made Sunday. Today I only did some mending. I worked on putting a new zipper in a coat. It is not an easy one to work with so I didn't get it finished.

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We are still battling illness here. I took my two youngest to the doctor today. They have both had fevers since Friday. They both have had coughs and headaches. I thought it was viral, but, looking into Captain Chaos' throat I decided to call the doctor's office. They suggested bringing them in. They checked them out and it is viral. Captain Kitty does not have pink eye, neither has strep. So, they were sent home with a prescription for fluids, vitamin C, and rest. They both really want to feel better by the weekend since the Bible Quiz tournament is this weekend.

On the sewing front. I have gotten little done with them ill. I haven't kept up with my housework. I haven't done school work this week. I haven't done any sewing since Sunday. I did go shopping at JoAnn's tonight to get that red thread I needed. They had a great sale and I found two materials I liked on the bargain table with a 60% sign. So, I got 6 yards for around $7. I am washing some flannel that I bought back in November as I type this. I am planning on making myself a new gown. I need to go through my file cabinet to see if I have pattern I want to use.

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I read some where that mending is not sewing. I seem to do a lot of mending. I decided today to do something I have been wanting to do, but, never find the time to. Something, fun. So, I thought of several projects I have been wanting to do, but, always put on the back burner for the more pressing and I picked one. I made a scarf on my sewing machine. I used Sulky wash-away stabilizer, some ribbon yarn and two colors of fun fur. I sewed the ribbon yarn down on the stabilizer using a zig zag stitch and placed it in a graft pattern. I sewed this yarn to the stabilizer every 1 inches. Oh, I used a 30 inch long by 9 inch wide piece of stabilizer. Next, I sewed black fun fur inbetween the black and grey ribbon yarn. I did this on both the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. Finally, I sewed some varigated green and blue fun fur in swirl designs over the whole piece to give it some color. I did this all flat. When I had finished this I twisted the piece and sewed the ends together. I put the piece through three hot water soaks and rinses to get the stabilizer out. Now, it is hanging to dry. Tomorrow I hope to take a picture of the piece to show you. While doing this Captain Kitty and I were talking. She really liked what I had done and I offered to make her one. She ask if I would make her a boa using the hairpin method. So I need to get some real fuzzy yarn and fold a metal clothes rack to do that. I noticed Michael's has a big sale on yarn this week. I am going to try to get a few skeins.

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Saturday, ah Saturday. Did I get a lot of sewing caught up? NO! My lovely husband decided he wanted to rearrange the computer room/office which is also my sewing room. I really like where he put the computer, but I am going to have to evaluate where I put some of my sewing things. They are not fitting as cosy as they where. The problem is I need more storage and I need to get some of the stuff out of here. One whole wall in here is bookshelves over flowing with books. I love my books, but, I need to find somewhere else in the house to keep them. Another thing is that right now I am using tables in a U-shape to sit things on. I really need a cabinet system so I have more room to store things. I have my antique vanity in here. That wouldn't be so bad if it fit. I also have my antique desk in here. They both are housing my stamping and scrapbooking supplies. If I had some type of cabinets I could store these items much better. I need to brain storm and then sketch some ideas and start a plan for this.

I did repair Captain Crunch's p.j. bottoms that had a hole. I did repair the youth pastor's jacket that needed a broken snap replaced. I did rip a broken zipper out of a coat that needs a new zipper put in. Unfortunately with the coat I was out of the right color thread to replace the zipper. I will have to get some in the next few days and get that done. I baked a coconut cake and made some turtles for dessert. I worked on knitting my other sock. I have two sick young ones and I doled out medicine and reminded them to drink more fluid. And of course I did help a little with the rearranging of the room.

Have a glorious Lord's Day!
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I got some sewing done today. I did not get all the lessons done. I did not get all the housework done. I did get some sewing done. I finished the pink skirt with blue butterflies I had been working on for myself. I hemmed two pair of pants for a customer. I sewed patches on a CAP uniform for my son's friend.

Tomorrow I doubt if I will get all the lessons or the housework done. Tomorrow my daughter is in a spelling bee. Tomorrow my oldest son has a pre-calculus class I have to get him to and from. Tomorrow is singing school for all my children. Tomorrow I have to attend a funeral for a dear man at church who went to be with our Lord Sunday morning.

Well, there is always Friday to catch up!

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I finally have taken a picture of the one completed sock. This pair is going to be a present to some one who wears a size 11. It certainly is taking longer than I anticipated. I tried to knit using the contental method and I am just not ready for that. I can go faster using the American method since that is what I have experience in. It has still taken me almost two weeks to get this far. I did not get any sewing done this weekend due to running the roads with my family and having company over. Hopefully, I will get some done in the next couple of days. I have some work for clients to do!

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I finished embroidering the skirt with the stains. I wanted to post pictures to show how well it looks! Embroidery is great for saving things you might otherwise have to discard!

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God has blessed my day! I got up this morning and had a rough start to my day. I was worried over an issue and wanted to dwell and wallow in it, instead I made myself do my devotions. I made myself take a shower and get dressed. I made myself do school with the children. I put the problem on the back burner and decided I had to leave it in God's hands. I have worked very hard since the 1st of the year to stay on track. To keep a type of schedule with schoolwork and housework. Today by the grace of God I was able to do that. He blessed me with things running smoothly and an hour of free time to sew. I couldn't believe it. I darned a pair of socks, sewed a button on a shirt, began embroidering a skirt, and began making another skirt.

I have a jean skirt I made several years ago that I love. Shortly after Christmas something got spilled on it and nothing would take the stain out. Instead of chucking it I am embroidering butterflies over the 3 stain spots. I will post a picture when I finish. I had cut out a skirt for myself in a pretty floral back in October and had not found time to finish it. Tonight I got the side seams sewn.

I am hoping and praying that staying on schedule is making life easier around here and there will be more times like this.

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I am still working on my sock. I did get the heel finished and now am working on the foot part. Boy is this knitting socks taking longer than I thought. It's fun though!

I got some sewing in Saturday. I put a zipper in a coat for some one. It was a leather coat and the plastic zipper had lost some teeth. I replaced it with a metal zipper.

I also digitized a picture and put it on a baseball cap for a friend.

This sewing once a week is getting to me. I am so busy with school and running the children that I find no time for sewing during the week. I feel crazy! The sock knitting is the only thing helping me keep my sanity. It works well because I can just pick it up and carry it places. I was knitting during karate class this evening.

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The knitting lessons went great! I am loving it. I can't wait to finish and show you.

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