Ye Calendar of Olde

I'm trying to recycle whenever I can, so I decided to make a project box for my silk crazy quilt supplies from an old open-topped chip box and last year's Zen wall calendar:

The calendar has beautiful images for every month, like this one:

Basically I got a glue stick and started folding and tearing the calendar to fit it to all sides of the box, and then glued them in place:

I even covered the bottom. :)

So now I have a nice-looking project box to keep all my stuff for the silk crazy quilt in one spot:

Comments

nightsmusic said…

Your bottom's full of rocks! Bwahahahahaha!!! Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

The box is very cute and a great idea. :)

January 9, 2020 at 3:35 PM

Old Loves & Such

My guy kindly bought me my favorite Chinese take out the other night, and my fortune cookie offered up an interesting story starter: This sounds sweet, right? Only the first thing I thought of was an old love coming back from the dead . . . . must be October. In other lovely news, my favorite hand-dyed thread artist, Lorraine from Colour Complements , is moving her business from Etsy to her own web site. Many of my favorite sellers on Etsy are leaving due to the whole "free shipping" coercion debacle, which has also soured me on the site. To show support I did a little shopping at Lorraine's web site and got in these: I love her threads and trims; you simply can't buy anything like them anywhere. Her work makes my specialty thread box look like a treasure chest: At night I'm spending just as hour working on quilting the scrap project runner, and I'm making slow progress: I'll keep quilting the runner while I try to decide on a design for t...

Fell Off the Wagon

I did cut up that plastic dollar tote to make into something stronger, but got caught up with work and set it aside. Then last night some hand-dyed silk and pretty threads called my name, and, well . . . Felt SO good to do some handwork, except my neck began hurting about an hour into it. I tried changing the way I sit and work, but it's pretty obvious that the doc is right.

Progress

My guy is back home safe, sound and exhausted. I think he just realized he's over seventy now. :) I didn't finish a sewing project while he was gone, but I did make some progress on the beach bag. I've tacked down all the fabric elements on top of the old backing fabric I quilted. Time to break out the embroidery thread box and have some fun.

Valerean

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