The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
~B.B. King
Stepping on stitches
Date
17 July 2025
The tapestry needles are fine, but the hand sewing needles are a mishmash – I’ve…
No where to go but up
Date
16 July 2025
Manged to test a few stitches without going entirely overboard. New quilting needles expected in…
Death Starry Night
Date
13 July 2025
Wedding dress bustled, emails and logins consolidated, website ported, and digital files reorganized. Quite enough…
Blue Notes
Date
4 July 2025
No more apparel sewing without a dressform. Until then, there are far more gratifying things…
Gotta start somewhere
Date
30 June 2025
Varied scraps Vague idea what I’m doing Patterns well beyond my skill level That oughta…
I’m not trying to walk the line
Date
28 June 2025
Finally got enough of a hand on the wedding sewing to return to other things….
On to the next
Date
14 June 2025
Probably should have squared the blocks before assembling the four squares. Or order a 16″…
Mathematically improbable but convenient
Date
12 June 2025
Realized I was leaning the wrong way – less chaos, not more. Fulcrum found, time…
And back to the swap
Date
11 June 2025
Leaning towards the pinwheeling whites, provided the greens balance out.
Back to the Hedge-Podge
Date
10 June 2025
Always nice to have blocks prepped and ready to go. Should probably think about what…
Pilfered Blue
Date
9 June 2025
Once the caffeine permeated the grey matter, remembered this blue was used in the post-Basketcase…
Final Burn
Date
8 June 2025
Streamlined the second section, but was still several hours of prep for 15 minutes of…
Third position
Date
7 June 2025
After much stumbling, an actual workflow is starting to emerge. Now that I can do…
Fastest way out is always thru
Date
5 June 2025
Tried another variation on the color blocking, but its still not quite right. Third time’s…
There’s a sucker born every minute
Date
4 June 2025
SAS2 delivered; back in business. Cut the suckers first, but not applying them until the…