Here I am! Just in the nick of time! To share my pictures
for SewCalGal’s Homemade Christmas Challenge. http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/p/the-christmas-challenge-consist-of.html
I would like to have something bigger
and splashy to show but it just didn’t work out. This last fall I was divorced, lived in North
Portland temporarily and then at the end of January moved to my little beach
place. And NOW, our home just sold so I will be going there this week to
pack. I’ve managed to keep myself busy
but just haven’t been into quilting. Usually my passion.
It just wasn’t the same. I didn’t have a dedicated space
whereas I had a whole room before. I thought I was past the point in my life
where I would be putting my sewing machine up and down on the dining room
table, I just wasn’t motivated. So when I felt the need to do “something” I’ve
knitted. Not often. It was easier to lose myself in a book than concentrate on
getting anything done. But I did manage to finish these four dish cloths. It will
be one present for one person. At least I did four different patterns!
Friday I sewed with a group here on the Long Beach Peninsula
and it was wonderful! These are my
people! A charity group called “Quilts
from the Heart”, http://www.quiltsfromtheheart.org/ I’m excited about quilting again. I took the
little room, in my single wide trailer, that I had been thinking of as the" tv
room", even tho' there wasn't yet a tv in there, and made it my sewing room. Is It small? Yep! Do I still have to cut
fabric in another room? Yep! Is there now a quilt on the wall and do I now have
a sewing machine and ironing board set up full time? Yep and yep!
My sister said “I know now you are going to be okay. You are
back to sewing.” So maybe, even with all the other things I have going on this
month, MAYBE I can get another Christmas present, or decoration finished to share next month. Sewn,
not knitted!
Enjoy!
Toni
