Two More Surprises

The Asian scarf I thrifted for $4.99 arrived, and it's much nicer than I thought. There are a couple of popped threads but otherwise it's in very good condition. The brocade patchwork wasn't made from cheap synthentic swatches as I guessed, but quite nice quality fabric.

On the back of the brocade patchwork is a very decent quality heavy black satin.

I don't wear scarfs very often, and on a very cold day when I do I use one of those that I've crocheted or knitted over the years. I'm not much of a fancy dresser, either, so I'll be repurposing the fabric in this scarf. Stay tuned to the blog to see what I do with it.

The Let It Snow embroidered wall hanging quilt I thrifted for $9.99 also landed on my doorstep, and I'm completely delighted with it.

The quilt is very clean and has no storage smell, and the embroidery work is especially nice.

The original maker did almost everything by hand like I do, so I got quite a bargain. This will be hanging up in the sewing room during the holidays.

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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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