Summercrafter

Meet Audrey , she is my Babylock (For the Love of Sewing) sewing machine.  She just turned three years old!  So to celebrate, I thought I would make her something to wear. Every girl needs a new outfit.     This black one does not become her, wouldn't  you agree?       So Camille has this great pattern called Just Swell  for a cover that would fit her nicely you can get it over at   Thimble Blossoms .  And since I just happened to have lots of her fabulous fabric...  I am using a Charm pack of each Ruby   and some yardage from her Vintage Modern collection (Hurry up, I think this one is running out!) and Bella Charms pack in white.   For some reason I always make my own patterns when I make something. But following patterns are a great way to have some discipline and try new techniques. I challenged myself to complete this in one day and follow the pattern exactly. So here goes...

A Jack of all Trades is a person who can do passable work at various tasks : a handy versatile person. It sounds great but generally these people are seen as wishy-washy, unfocused and un experts in all they can do because they don't have a title that states their area of expertise in a concrete way. I think it's a great asset to dabble in a little bit of this and a little bit of that, right? In school, we expect students to achieve satisfactory, if not exceptional success, in all subject areas don't we? When our own children bring home a C or worse we say "we don't accept C's in this house, only A's and B's."  So what is the message exactly?  a little watercolor painting I, being a middle child, have always believed that the more you know or learn, the better it is. I don't know if this is innate or a coping mechanism of middle children or  if it's something I learned from my father. [He knows how to do everything except open...

Surely, you must have forgotten by now how this whole project started, refresh your memory here . I certainly didn't mean to make you (or my mom) wait so long for this, however, life work , has really just taken over like quicksand.... but I digress. So, after painstakingly laying out all the pieces and assembling and sorting them in just the right way, everything got all mixed up during the sewing of the parts. After which, I had to do more arranging and sorting and ending up doing less caring about where or how the fruits were lining up. Then mom reminded me not to forget the buttons as she pointed to the magazine. The good news is I get to try out the button foot for the first time.  It worked out well, but the buttons I had bought for this project were of various sizes.... oh well. Close up of button placement.   Backing & binding. Here it is hanging over (total size 14" by 64") Close up, everything always looks better ...

We went to Stone Mountain Georgia for a couple of days. The mountain is made of Granite and it's all over the US in important buildings.   View of the actual mountain and a teeny tree my daughter pointed out. Vague hint of Fall foiliage, the sunlight makes all the difference. Here they are. Covered bridge.