Tag: sewing
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Pre-Fall Cleaning
Today I finally decided to clear my table off. For months it has had a variety of things on top of it including my clothes and my nieces clothes. This morning I was able to get everything else off of it in order to actually see the wood once again. This was just the first…
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Why Sewing Matters
Growing up in my family on both my parents sides were not just the agile crafters, but women who had essential skills to provide for their family. Crafting and making pretty or simply functional clothing is not an extravagance or something that is not useful. Sewing was a skill in the American past that was…
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Play Time… Learning
Technically I still feel like I am an amateur myself. Using a machine is much different than the sewing I have been doing with cross-stitch using my hands without a machine. Yet I was fortunate enough to find some paw print and Americana dog fabric lately, in the hopes to have some fun with my…
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A Slow Down Day
Busy days are good to have, but I really needed this morning. Time to be alone and time to work at my comfortable speed. The Lord has given me so much to do I sometimes forget to rest. I love keeping busy with my hands one way or another it is a blessing to do…
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Sewing
The last few days have been very intriguing. I have had three ladies who have reputations for being good seamstresses ecstatic about my new interest in sewing with my Grandma’s machine. Plus my new Brother machine. Which has been a big blessing for me as well. I just finished my helicopter pillow this evening. I…
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Creatively Blocked?
Do you ever feel creatively blocked, musically, artistically in whatever medium you work in? Sometimes it’s ironic how I can feel the piano keys better than I can writing during the same day. Or I can write up a storm, but I just don’t have the want to hold a needle that day. I find…
Jewells of Thought 