An Afternoon of Task Work

Sometimes I don't work on projects during my spare time (although I do work on the calendar mood blanket every day.) Now and then I devote my free time to organizing, sorting, mending and other tasks. One day it started with this untidy box of scrap binding, which I had pulled out for a mending project. I don't like untidy things.

Then I added a bunch of tangled yarn from various thrifts that needed separating and rolling from the spring cleaning I'd done that morning.

I already had a pair of capris to alter and a quilt to fix, so I spent my afternoon dealing with all of them.

Tidying the scrap binding box just took a few minutes. It also let me see how much commercially made binding I have left to use on some things I have planned for spring.

I like to keep my yarn tidy, too, and it's kind of soothing to untangle and roll yarn. Okay, I'm weird.

Since I don't care for wearing capris I altered a pair I got in one of my pants lots into pajama shorts for summer.

These are nice for when the nights get warmer.

Then came repairing the quilt -- one I made a few years ago from a mystery FQ bundle -- which the dogs had chewed on a bit. Usually I just let them have the quilt to rip up, but I like this quilt and I don't want them to destroy it.

Rather than try to do an invisible repair I put a Mickey Mouse print patch over the tear on the backing. I don't know why, I just liked how it looked. :)

Here's why I save even little bits of binding from my projects: the pups chewed off one corner.

I used a 5" scrap of black binding to fix the corner -- and that was my whole afternoon.

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