Next Project

I don't know if I enjoy the planning or the actual work of a new project. With the planning, I get to think about how I will work the fabric and how to adorn the purse and that is a lot of fun. I can go this way and use this sort of handle or I can go that way and put stones on it and it all is in the panorama of my mind. The actual sewing ends up making it into "stone" and what if I hate it. When that happens, it goes into the bottom drawer for retrieval at some future date.

This is what I plan on for this weekend: these lovely pieces of silk, combined to make a small clutch bag. I will find some semi-precious stones to adorn it and it will become a "Dinner Bag".

Right now, this is how I am thinking. Come this weekend, who knows?

The Time it Takes To Boil

I have been watching a pot. Hoping for it to boil. But as I heard from my mother as a child, "a watched pot will not boil". So, I put this aside and did other projects. As as luck would have it, it finally, in the early, early time of the morning, it boiled.

I think that I am about to proceed on this project.

Here is The Project:

I save all large scrapes of fabric left from other projects. I mean I have years old stuff. I went through the chest of drawers (I have two just for fabric) and looked for the wool stuff. I found lots. And it all turned out to be things that I had made for other people. Well, and good! The good vibes will enhance my project, I thought.

I made a template 4" x 4" and I cut and cut and cut. I wanted to have at least 200 pieces. But while I was cutting, I got bogged down. I like the concept of the using the wool but as I envisioned the completion of it, I began to hate it. So, I left it alone and let my inner self to deal with it.

Then a couple of nights ago, it once again came together. I have slightly altered the concepts. I gathered more information from some mavens and now I am anxious for Saturday to arrived so I will be free of my overactive conscience to begin.

Right now, we cue in the song "Come Saturday Morning" .