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Friday, June 5, 2009

Two Great Things





The first and best great thing is that Mom is home from the hospital and doing well. I will call her tomorrow and talk to her. I didn't like her to talk too much today because it made her cough, and with that incision, well, it just scared both of us. Dad said she was sleeping earlier; a real good thing!

The other great thing is that I made my first-ever-in-my-whole-life pillow with welting! Yes, thanks to encouraging comments from my dear Aunt Katie from Primitive Woolens, Debbie from Woolen Sails and Magnolia Bay Quilts, I decided to tackle the pillow. I had a home decorating book with directions, so I sat down at my new magic sewing machine and I didn't get up until I'd finished. Tomorrow I will get a form for it. I am so happy! I really did it! The Kitten helped all along the way.

The only downside to the pillow experience is that, since I am allergic to wool, I sneezed so much that I got a bloody nose. That cinches it; I'll never join the hooking ranks.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Michelle Pillow Back

The top is done and now the back is done. Do you think I can make a finished pillow? I am intimidated by piping around the edges and making good corners. I think I will leave it for the weekend.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Sue Spargo's Michelle Pillow


Thank you, Aunt Katie! In the mail today was the brown wool blend thread I needed to complete a small part on the Michelle pillowtop I started in Sue Spargo's class at Gwinnett's Original Sewing and Quilting Expo last October. My sweet Aunt Katie (Primitive Woolens) sent me an entire spool even though I said I only needed 2 yards. I will have to do a lot more wool work (I really enjoy it)! I am not sure my pillow top will make it to a completed pillow though, since pillow finishing is uncharted waters for this novice sewer (oh man, look at that word). I guess you have to be a novice seamstress because you can't be a sewer except out loud, otherwise it looks nasty. But if you know a lot of hookers...
Anyhow, I can't wait to get done with work tomorrow so I can spend some time with my Kitten in my sewing room being a seamstress and blogging with hookers.