The Granny Diaries

Craft Binge: Days 2-4 or The Best Laid Plans

My sewing room cheering section

It's been a challenge to stay on task the past few days.  The weather has been delightfully springlike.  I had breakfast with a good friend, dinner with another friend, and have been checking in on Alex.  I have retrieved keys for folks, lugged potted plants, and baked cakes. Still, 1950's Barbie, My Littlest Pony and the rest of the gang have been waiting to greet me as I resume work on the ice cream cozies.  The pile is growing but I have been distracted by the "Aha! moments" that make me want to reach for sketchbook or another pile of fabric.

I am thinking that these flowers in black and white could become necklaces.  Or pins.  Or get pinned to a bulletin board.  Or left in a box for my children to throw away when they send me to the nursing home.

So I can watch The Wheel of Fortune with Alex and the other old folks in the Home.

Craft Binge: Day 1

 
I am always delighted to see what happens when wool felts.  I love the way the colors meld and the individual stitches lose definition.  I am loving the pink scalloped bowl!  A few of the larger pieces are still drying so I have to unveil them later.  The crocheted flowers and medallions are a new obsession and I can make them anywhere. 

The sewing machine is a bit harder to carry from room to room.

Things I learned today:

• Lion Brand wool felts faster than Cascade or Donegal Tweed.
• I have an unnatural preference for acid green.
• I am not fond of pastels.
• Cutting too many sewing projects at one time creates a daunting pile of fabric and fleece.
• Grizelda doesn't bite...yet.