The day is closing with the most beautiful…
The day is closing with the most beautiful sunset I could imagine. As I am winding down I can’t help but notice how hard the windchimes are at it in the evergreen 0ff the northwest corner of the house. Projected wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph makes me so thankful that Kevin was here on Saturday and used the huge I beam and cable to help secure our vintage garage.
Nephew Brett was over today with a bag full of quilt. What to do about finishing a tee-shirt quilt that he had run out of fabric to finish it. It didn’t take long for the two of us to work it through. Brett had not been over to the sewing studio since late summer. Brett settled into the rocking chair as we visited and I went back to an embroidery that I was doing.
After a time Brett was asking about the automatic needle threader on the sewing machine. I invited him over to take a shot at it. The machine he had purchased off of Craigslist last year supposedly had such an aid on it but Brett had never figured it out. It didn’t take long the mystic of getting that needle threaded was conquered. After each color of the design was finished, I turned the machine over to Brett to thread the needle. It soon became apparent that the needle needed to be changed. The thunk, thunk sound gave it away. I laid the needle down and Brett had it changed in a heartbeat.
Sometime over the 20,000 stitches of this particular design, I was sitting off to the far left and Brett was right there in the front of all the action. All I needed to do was hand him the next color and it was handled. The machine was threaded each time with successful needle threading and Brett’s nose was just a nose length away from the needle watching the stitching.
Brett bought a longarm unit last year and has been doing tee-shirt quilts during the winter breaks of his concrete work for family and friends. I believe after today he knows that there is enjoyment to be had after the tee-shirts.
It was a good afternoon of visiting with a fellow quilter.