A blistering cold wind that whipped all night…
A blistering cold wind that whipped all night. This morning, I actually looked out the west house porch window to see if the wind chimes had been taken down onto the ground as I heard nothing of them. A quiet morning on Stauffer Avenue.
Neither Dennis nor I had any want of going anywhere in the cold. That was punctuated when Dennis went out into the patio porch and not one of the four cats was wanting to go out. Oh yes, when Dennis cracked the east slider door to see if they wanted out, there were several that would have enjoyed taking in the cold air with their butts on the patio porch carpet. Not going to happen when the furnace was a huffing and a puffing its heart out.
It never fails. When I got to the point of organizing the sewing studio, I may have pitched something that today I looked high and low for. I know I can make tassels for a table runner I am working on with embroidery floss. Goodness knows I have plenty of it from the Fairfax kids. I knew in a certain pink box there had been some rayon floss that never worked worth a darn for hand embroidery. Maybe, just maybe, I had given it a nod and kept it to live another day in the sewing studio. I sure got my exercise. Finally, I spy with my little eye, the pink box. I flipped it open . . . and it was empty. I had indeed sifted and sorted it right out of my stashes. So much for that.
The table runner will indeed sport tassels on each of the pointed ends with embroidery floss. Nephew Brett had asked at one time where I got tassels to match my table runner projects. It had never occurred to him that floss that doesn’t often get used anymore in my world of embroidery, still has a viable use.
By the way, I got a text from Brett this afternoon, his tee-shirt quilt top, all 68″ by 88″ is done and he is ready to get it on his longarm unit. Good for him. As much as he would not take it anywhere to have it finished, I, on the other hand, am thankful for the Old Alley Quilt Shop that will finish my quilt on their longarm and charge me $.01 per square inch. My arms and wrists no longer feel good nor have the ability to wrangle that much fabric under the needle.