Well it's cold and rainy here in California today, and honestly I am loving it. We just get soo little moisture anymore that you HAVE to rejoice when we do. I can't believe it's Thursday afternoon already. The time marches by faster and faster it seems. I have been busy sewing this week on the burp cloths. Truthfully I have made WAY more than enough, haha, but I am using left over fabric which is always nice to USE it for something, and it is soo much fun on top of it. I am combining applique and embroidery into them as well, which makes each one kind of unique and fun. And besides, most babies can always use LOTS of burp cloths. I have soo enjoyed making them, that I am kicking around the idea of selling some eventually....maybe. I am going to pray about that as I honestly don't want to take something on only to regret it. I have done some sewing for people in the past, and honestly, it never worked out really well. Soo "maybe" I should live and learn. I'd rather just give them away. But I guess I need to finish up what I have committed to making before I am giving things away, lol. I need to make my grand daughter Donatella a few little things for her birthday which is coming up in a week as well. Another little 5 year old which makes my heart happy.
I have wrestled with a few things this week which honestly might just be a good thing. It always makes me look closer to and lean in more on God. And depending on Him, trusting Him NO MATTER WHAT, is the only way to bring about that peace that only comes from Him. He is EVER faithful that's for sure. You'd think I'd remember that after all these years of being Christian, but He still has to remind me. How grateful I am that He loves me, is patient with me, and is always there to direct me. Sometimes I am overwhelmed with the degree of His love for us.
I have had a dilemma today that honestly I am not sure how it is going to work out. I have had a sewing cabinet (a really nice one) for 30 years now. It has several drawers in it which I use constantly, and a motor that raises the table up and down to put the machine either away or into a position to be used. I have had to raise and lower it a lot recently (it is usually just always up...I almost never actually put it away, lol) because I have to change the position of it in order to use my embroidery attachment, taking it on and off etc. Well, today, after taking off the embroidery attachment, I went to lower the machine back down when suddenly it made a VERY strange noise and fell almost to the floor. It wouldn't then go up or down, just made that weird noise. I am thinking the motor is gone. Thankfully I got my feet out of the way in time (proving I can still move when I have too, lol) and somehow or another managed to get the heavy thing unhooked and up onto the table in my kitchen so I could at least finish up what I was working on. HOWEVER, I do not want it there for permanently for a few reasons. It is uncomfortable sitting at that height to sew for one, and for another I use the table as my cutting area, and holding area, and ironing area. I can't add the actual sewing machine there without just flat out running out of room. I have my whole sewing mess in the middle of our everyday eating area as it is, and mess it most of the time. I don't want to take things up and down and put it away etc., when I use it everyday. It would be wonderful to have a sewing room, but hey, it is what it is. Soo of course one would think, time for a new cabinet, right? But they are HUNDREDS of dollars, and honestly just isn't in the budget right now. Sooo, here I am. Blogging when ordinarily I would be sewing and wondering what will happen. Maybe hubby can fix the whole thing....maybe I can rearrange things some and figure out what to do....maybe I can find a used one somewhere that will work well. In the scheme of things this isn't really a big dilemma as dilemmas go, but I think by now you all now how big I have sewing, lol.
Well I will end this all over the place post now by showing you a few pics. Hope you all have a wonderful week-end, and feel HIS joy and peace wherever you are at!
Blessings, Debbie
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| BET YOU RECOGNIZE THIS FABRIC....LEFT OVER FROM ONE OF THE QUILTS...LOVE THE DESIGN I FOUND TO EMBROIDER |
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| THIS ONE WAS TRICKY AS I HAD TO GET THE APPLIQUE ON AND THEN CENTER THE EMBROIDERY TO GO ON OVER IT...I ALMOST DIDN'T TRY IT, BUT IT WORKED OUT EASIER THAN I THOUGHT |
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| THIS ONE IS MY PERSONAL FAVORITE. I AM HOPING TO DO THIS TO A ONESIE TOO |
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| SOME LEFT OVER FROM SAM'S JAMMIES HERE |
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| JUST HAD TO SHOW YOU A CLOSE UP OF THE DECORATIVE STITCH IN THE SHAPE OF A TRUCK. SOO MANY TO CHOSE FROM THAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO THINK OF WAYS TO USE, LOL |
I made a collage of all of them so you can have a quick reminder. Just as a sellers interest, which one or type is your favorite?
Just had to show you some pictures of Grandma's green eyed Luke. The ONLY ones out of 4 children, and ll grandchildren who got Grandma's green eyes. JD's are green, but a very light green, and Annabel's are hazel. This guy's might go hazel too. What do you think?
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| THESE ARE THE COLOR OF MINE RIGHT NOW...HOW I MISS THIS LITTLE GUY! |
I so admire your sewing skills and the wonderful and useful things you make. I really don't have much ability in this area yet have on my schedule tomorrow to make the simplest patchwork quilt for our little granddaughter who is having a birthday in a few weeks. Every time she comes to visit, she toddles up to the nursery and brings down a baby doll wrapped in a small baby quilt I made when her mommy was little. I found a sweet doll at Christmastime just right and will make a little quilt so she can take them home.
ReplyDeleteOh it would be wonderful if you had a sweet little sewing room to call your own. I do love mine even though I do not use it as much as you would use yours. It's the everyday little annoyances that can so get to us. I know that The Lord cares about all the things that affect us. Love the burp cloths!
ReplyDeleteDebbie, I am tying to catch up and just read three posts in a row! My week has been busy (even without all the posts on my blogging schedule).
ReplyDeleteI always love seeing the photos of your grandchildren...they are such sweeties. Beautiful children!
You've been busy, as always, with some more wonderful projects. (I am very impressed with that "truck" stitch!) I hope you come up with a workable, affordable plan for your sewing area. You must have somewhere to create! :D
I'm right there with you ... still needing God's reminder too often.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about that table, but could it be fixed somehow so you can at least use it ... without the lowering/raising feature? I know what you mean about not having much room to sew ... I do have a sewing room ... but really it's only half of a very small spare bedroom ... and only then because we put a daybed in there, not a full-sized bed. I get about a 1/3 of the closet (if that) for storage, so I have plastic totes (large ones) full of my fabric stash. I would love something more attractive and easier to get into (because my totes are solid plastic, I have no idea where a certain fabric is if I need to go looking), but there's no room. I use an old metal folding table (5' long ... it's ugly and was used many years ago for crafty painting, so there are a few small paint spills on it ... thankfully you can't see those spills because every square inch is covered) ... with just enough room for my lights (I must have 6 lights for my table ... my old eyes just don't see well enough to cut or sew without lots and lots of good lighting!), my sewing machine and my 24x36 cutting mat. Even so, I frequently have to set the machine on the floor to cut or set the mat on the floor to sew. But as you say, it is what it is. And I'm making it work. Wow, that was a book! Sorry!
I love them all Debbie! But I especially love all of the embroidered and embellished detail on them! I so wish my machine did that!!! Sorry about your sewing table breaking. Can you make the room your Mom was in as your sewing room? It is so nice to leave my sewing mess out, and close the door if need be.
ReplyDeleteLove little Luke's eyes. Gorgeous!
Oh, and you lived next door to Tiger? Sad childhood, I think. Very sad.
xo Kris
I always wanted green eyes, my dad has them.
ReplyDeleteEven though my clean car go rained on yesterday I say "bring on the rain!" we need it so badly here in California.....
You go girl!!!!I love all your burp cloths; I think it so funny that young moms use burp cloths today-when I had kids most of my friends and I didn't. Don't remember what we used though. Great job Debbie.
ReplyDeleteYou are so talented!!!
Hugs,
Noreen
I love the rag edged burped cloths, my favorite. I can't over how Luke looks like Sam. He has the most beautiful eyes. Hope you come up with a solution for your sewing area. Have a greta weekend.
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ReplyDeleteI sure hope your hubby can fix your sewing cabinet, it sounds so handy!
Your burp pads are so unique-I like them all.
Where would we be without the Lord? He is our ever present help and I, too, am so thankful.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Oh, Debbie, I can't believe those cabinets are so expensive. Ugh! I do so hope that yours can be fixed because I do understand why it makes your life easier. I'm thinking that no matter the size of our houses that we never quite have room for everything, we just have to make it work. :o)
ReplyDeleteLove the monogram burp cloth that is on the far right of the top row, #3.
Happy weekend Debbie!