There was this, one of the Tina Givens linen dusters:
The front was always too boxy for me, so I wore it only once. I like it, though, and decided to just get in there and do something—anything!—so I'd wear it. So I fixed it:
For whatever reason, blogger says these two photos have to go Right Here. Or else.
Then there was this jacket thing, which I cannot for the life of me find as a Before picture. Anyway, I had it and added a little to it and wore it because it's comfortable and really warm, and then I thought I'd do more to it, even though I won't wear it again until probably December. Still, it was fun, although by the end of it I was sick unto death of working on it. Lots of hours on this one (I had already lined it with an old t-shirt; that was the first step when I got it, I think).
The felt is from felt I bought and then fulled in the wash and also from wool stuff from Goodwill from back when I used to buy stuff there, before it started creeping me out.
I made this duster from some lovely lightweight linen given to me as a gift. Dyed and made from my own pattern. I wore it last night and love it. I'm thinking about putting a tiny snap on that part that overlaps. For most of them, I used a hook and eye, but now I'm going to try something different to see how it goes: I want something that will hold it closed if I'm walking in it and it's blowing around but that will be virtually invisible the rest of the time, when it just hangs open like this.
The edges are bound with bias tape I made from the scraps.
Then I dyed up more lightweight linen from Dharma Trading and made a bunch more aprons in the newer, shorter, slightly smaller incarnation of my pattern. This one, below, is in medium weight, or regular, and it's my first project focusing on satin stitch. The challenge was to do it without thinking every. single. stitch. had to be Absolutely Perfect. It was tough, but I learned along the way and am really pleased with how it turned out.
In the process of working on this, I became just the tiniest bit (ahem) obsessed with cotton perle:
It's lovely to work with, and now, of course, I want to dye a bunch of my own variegated colors. Yikes. Like I need another thing to do.
Then there's this, which I've shown before. It was a dress or something, and I cut it down and did the binding with t-shirt fabric and then embroidered it all over with stuff that makes me laugh.
When I took down all the bulletin boards out here, I was left with a little pile of stuff, quotes and cards and stuff, that I like but didn't want to save, as in "save in a scrapbook or something." No saving of stuff! I realized the perfect way for me to save stuff is to stitch it onto clothes. So I had this card, the funniest birthday card I've ever seen (I bought it for myself for my birthday a couple years ago).
The inside:
So I did this:
which makes me very happy. I may mail the card to myself this year and then throw it into recycling.
So that's what I've been doing in addition to trying to get into the right frame of mind to paint the front porch. I don't want to do it: I know it's going to be a total PITA. But it has to be done. The EGE is ready to help me. But. But. But. . . .I'm not sure what I was thinking when I had them paint it like this:
O.M.G. Help me.
No, seriously: anybody wanna come paint? I'll sit and entertain you and try to convince the mosquitos not to carry you off to Peru.
XO
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