Thursday, August 22, 2019

I spent the morning in my spare room upstairs. For the past several months (since we did photos for Madison’s grad) that room has been a deposit area for any number of things. Now that my sewing area is tidy (and so far I’ve been keeping it so) I thought it was time to tackle the other mess.

I’ve managed to clear most of the floor. I had a bag of pattern books that I was certain were headed for the economy shop but I just had to go through them one more time. I kept about half a dozen from the pile – mostly Christmas patterns and a few knitting ones. There was a bin of photos that I’d been looking through so I continued to sort through the loose one. There were a few I kept but there were also quite a few that I didn’t think worthy of the space. There are a lot of corners that need to be sorted through but if I work at it on Thursdays before my sewing afternoon I can make significant progress.

I only had a couple of hours at sewing this afternoon. I took along some hand sewing and made some progress on an embroidered card. The last time I used this stitch it didn’t turn out so well and I asked an expert what I was doing wrong and she said my stitches were too big. So this time I took a smaller stitch, reminded myself of what Barb said, and took an even smaller stitch. So far it is looking good.

I’m going out to The Boardwalk (in Lund) with Pat for his final performance of the summer. It will be a long evening but I’ll take a book along with me.