... but it's the little things that make all the difference.
I have been clearing and tidying my sewing room or should I say re-shuffling and re-jiggling my sewing stuff around a very small room that I share with the laundry, the washing machine, the tumble dryer and all sorts of odds and ends that have nowhere to go :-(
Upstairs in our bedroom I had my treadle machine (still not operational, but a great table for dumping books and cardigans etc.) The treadle table also needed to be re-shuffled to make space for the baby's crib. So.... down came the crib out the loft, down came the treadle to my sewing room creating an extra horizontal surface for sewing use! Yippee!
I sew a lot of bags and non-patchworky things and I use a machine for that (more about the fact that I may have a new second-hand machine for that another time LOL). Anyway, anything 'patchworky' gets sewn on my Janome Quilter's Companion. I have previously sewn bags with this machine, but the repairs afterwards were very expensive indeed that I swore never again!! So just like one has a pair of scissors just for fabric, I have a machine just for patchwork-piecing!!!!
It's wonderful having the space to have both machines out and so I have already sewn Kate's Corn & Bean blocks into the layout I need for our dresser and I also started putting together some blocks* for a quilt top:
*One of the online groups I belong to was doing a springclean of their list and it got me to thinking of all the swaps I had done with this group and all the blocks just sitting there waiting for something to happen to them. Many have been donated to Linus, but these Maple Leaves were just waiting for a layout... So I laid them out on the bed like this and now they are being sewn together.
I'd rather have tops than blocks lying around!
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For 8 days, I had a poorly little boy. Today was his first trip out. We went to the Beck for a paddle. We didn't stop long, I think it was a little bit too much for him, but at least he's on the mend.
