Life at our house goes on at a breakneck pace, causing me to neglect posting as regularly as I would like. But my sewing room is a beehive of unreported activity, not all of it very interesting.
Wouldn’t you love to sew only creative, fun items? Does anyone get to do that? Check out an earlier ho-hum post for an interesting view of what constitutes fun sewing elsewhere, like”baju kurung, kebaya, punjabi suit.” Just how much fun would it be to sew a punjabi suit? More fun than I had with these projects.
HO-HUM SEWING
But duty calls and I have a running list of ho-hum sewing which is in addition to routine mending. These ho-hums become occasions for which my sewing machines can actually save some money. While there is no creative satisfaction, there is the satisfaction of contributing to the family, being a helpmate to my dear husband, and satisfaction in proving that my Brother Dream Machine is more than just an expensive toy.
Mending pool leaf filter baskets….yawn…
How’s this for ho-hum”? These basket liners for our pool leaf filter cost about $15 each. Regularly, the netting tears and requires replacement OR ho-hum mending. Can any of you dear readers beat this for ho-hum?
I didn’t even bother to match thread color as I mended the mesh bag with a triple zig zag stitch. I did, however, cover the bed of my machine with a piece of washway stabilizer to keep the embedded leaf debris from dropping in through the needle hole. There is nothing pretty or creative about these repairs, but they make my husband grin with each of the 3-4 patches I make before he has to replace the basket liner.
Then there is always puppy damage to deal with. How ugly is this, Samson’s collar?
triple zig zagged with an added backing of denim
I’ve posted occasionally about our puppies–now exactly 1 year old, 95 lbs each and still growing.
Delilah and Samson, 10 weeks old
We are crazy about their affectionate, calm nature and their intelligence. But sweet Delilah loves to pull brother Samson’s collar off and chew it up. This is his third $10 collar since he grew into this size 3 months ago. And what you see is collar #3’s third repair. That’s a $30 savings. I just wish I had mended the earlier collars. Who knew this was to become Delilah’s favorite recreation?
Of course, the savings of the mended collars does little to make up for my two pairs of $160 “almost orthopedic” athletic shoes the pups destroyed, along with the $500 custom orthodic inserts Even my Dream Machine was unable to fix that! I have no photos but plenty of grim visual memories. There was nothing to do but throw them in the trash and order more.
Clearly neither Samson nor Delilah knew that was a bad thing to do or I’m sure that they would not have been so naughty. But as intelligent as they are, I would think they might have figured it out by now.
HOLY HOLY SEWING
Holy Holy sewing is much more to my liking. I love stitching for my church.
embroidered communion linens
Two 20″ hemstitched linen napkins were embroidered with these beautiful liturgical designs from ABC Embroidery’s Christian Symbols collection. The designs have so much dimension. Currently the set is on sale, marked down from $47 (and well worth it!) to only $19.99. I have used this collection again and again. NOTE: I have no affiliation other than that of a very satisfied customer.
As mentioned in an earlier post, our church burned to the ground several years ago. Many of the amenities such as these communion linens are slowly being replaced.
I apologize for the poor quality of the photos, but it was late in the afternoon and the shadows on the back porch made it impossible to get a better shot.
This is the embroidery for the presenting corner as it covers the challis.
This design was embroidered on the other three corners.
To cover the communion host, this wheat design was embroidered on the presenting corner of the linen, facing the congregation.
The other corners were embroidered with the wheat design.
There has been more sewing to tell you about, but later.
So what have you been sewing? Valentine gifts? Easter garments? Please share your projects. Inquiring minds want to know.
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