In between cleaning cupboards, chipping ice off the driveway (because I am determined that winter is on its way out and I am going to prove it by having an ice-free driveway) and caring for little Audri while her Mama worked today, I sewed on this old comforter some more.
When I started it, I had thought to do all the mending by hand. It was to be an exercise in darning and mending from the olden days. I wanted it to look as tho it has been mended and darned over a period of years.
Once I got started and found the fabric so fragile and worn, I gave up the idea of doing it by hand and I have sewn and patched and mended on the machine half the winter, it seems. Actually, I work on it, get discouraged and lay it aside, then work on it some more. Tomorrow, I will finish the binding. I might put on two more small patches and then, that is it!
I have two more old comforters to shore up -- and spring is a coming. Time is short.
2 comments:
That's a neat picture--with you're tomato . . . what is the exact word for that thing?
That, my dear, is a pin cushion. The little strawberry has different stuffing from the tomato -- something to sharpen needles.
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