More of the same outside but not so much here in the sewing studio. I finished up a project by shopping off of the button tree to the tune of two dozen buttons. My hands are beyond sewing that many buttons on one by one. It was time for plan “B.”
I had found some great glue that I keep on hand . . . “9001.” It works on metal, fabric, glass and wood. It currently is holding our huge multi level birdhouse onto the plywood base for the third season coming up. Our octagon window in the bathroom has a huge amount of it in the guts of the exterior side of the window holding all those fabricated pieces of wood that is just beyond the exterior frame.
Today with tweezers in hand I popped a small pearl of the 9001 on the back of each button and carefully placed the button where it was needed. If perhaps I would be washing the fabric using the 9001, I wouldn’t trust it. For crafting . . . by the time the buttons fall off the project that it was on it will have lost its luster and it will be time to put something new up.
The entire time the button project was going on the embroidery machine ran like a top in the background, stopping just long enough to have a different color of thread as per the design I have loaded. Today was the 10th of the largest designs to stitch out within this packet. Here after will be smaller designs to add to and mix in and stitched together. The end result . . . a rectangle of multiple designs all using a mixture of different colors of plaid flannel . . . a true Christmas Mash up project.
Dennis and I had lunch together . . . afterward he took a nap and I retreated to the sewing studio. In time he came down and we shared a bottle of Sprite . . . and he playing some solitaire on my sewing computer and I worked with thread and fuzz. Just a hell of a good day.