Mapping..........................

 Mapping has taken a whole new meaning!  Have you seen this?  you can go down the rabbit hole if you visit this site!

I'm in awe!  I sat for an hour just watching these fascinating ways to do mapping--it's genius!  and an interesting way to use computers.  A friend is using Mind Mapping--something totally different--not something I'm going to do--besides, it takes way more time and brain power than I have!

Enjoy Skullmapping site!

Treadling We Go!

The fever has struck!  I pulled out some dyed cotton baggies that have been aging for some time now--

I've been wanting to spin these colorful fibers--actually, I want to downsize my stash!

Is that possible?

Let's begin with these two--

This nicely dyed fiber is 80% Pima and 20% Mohair--

spins smoothly.  It took me about 5 hours to do 2 oz.



Now to go to the other bag--80% Pima Cotton, 10% Mohair, 10% cashmere--whoop whoop!  Luxury mixed with plain Pima cotton!  

When I placed them side by side--it's not the same red, is it?  The one on the left has more blue color--

Guess it doesn't matter when they're plied together, it will look great!

I'm off to ply these two together and share the combination 

Should Be Doing This, But I'm Doing That

Have you ever set a goal for yourself and then promptly didn't complete that goal?

Found something else completely off track to do instead?

I have about 10 quilts that need to be bound--stitch on the binding

and do the hand stitching

I did cut the binding, pressed a couple and then guess what?

I looked over to the corner and saw the file cabinet and

said to myself, " Self, wonder what's in there?"

And Self got up from the sewing chair, walked over to the

file cabinet and began to open drawers............

I went down the rabbit hole!!

Oh gee whiz, here are patterns I want to create!  I pulled them out

and began to process my fabric selection for each of the patterns--

I guess it's called "Procrastination!"  

Oh sorry, just thought of something else I should be doing--

looking in my yarn closet...................

I'll see you later to finish this post...............

 

Celebrate Advent

Need ideas to celebrate Advent--look no further than Pinterest!

Reverse Advent

Printable calendars

Advent dailies filled with candy and activities

And for adults!--Wine each day!!

Decorate a gingerbread house--

Doesn't matter which one you choose--just Celebrate Advent in your

own way--prepare for Christmas!

 

Fall Comes.....................................Acorns Drop!

  A friend gifted me a huge bag of Acorns that dropped around campus==these are nice fat acorns!  I set out to make fabric acorns for house decorations and gifts for friends.  First, I baked all the shells--who wants any bugs in their decorations?!  Once, they had cooled, I set about make a pattern for these interesting accents.  The first ones I made were with plaid cotton fabric, not happy with those, I remembered I had a box of wool scraps--let's get cutting and deciding how to go about this.

I used a 3" circle--worked great.  Cut many circles

Cut slits even around by marking in half each way

Folded in half and stitch a dart

By sewing in each quarter, you have an acorn top--then

I wanted to do a short cut and decided not to cut the slits

And just folded the circle in half and sewed the dart in each direction--

that way worked too and saved some time. Next step was to sew a gathering 

stitch around the circle, pull up, stuff with fiber fill, pull up thread,

glue inside acorn half and place top--

There you have it!!  My acorn decorations for fall--

Was thankful my friend gifted me with these--in

turn I gifted her with a small basket stuffed with these goodies!

Veteran's Day

 

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