Out With the Old, In With the New
Yesterday we did close down Christmas by returning the Fairfax Santa to the back garage for safe keeping until next year, less his coat and cap.
Today after thinking about the coat and cap I took it down to the sewing studio with seam ripper in hand. Santa needs a new coat. In some places the 1950s fabric shredded if I looked for a place to begin opening the seam. It was a slow process. It was a rather dirty process as the stuffing used in the white trim and the hat was similar to the old time cotton quilt batting, only this was wanting to shred if you touched it.
Yesterday after Kevin and Kersten carried him to the back garage, Kevin mentioned later that he had some insulation in one of his fingers. Today, I have that same sensation of having insulation in some of my fingers from handling the coat and cap. The beard of Santa is like spun fiberglass. Hmm. That, for the future will need some thought.
I will be taking a scrap of fabric with me wherever we travel in the near future to see what is available. Lots of possibilities on the internet, but I don’t want to buy what I can’t see and feel. The first thing will be for me to take freezer paper and make some pattern pieces. I saved all the white trim and Dennis tucked it into a plastic grocery bag. I followed up from where I had been working with a Swiffer duster and a 3M sticky roller. The white trim after the seam allowance was exposed was a mist of white.
It was a good day to begin a new project. It is New Yea’s Eve and we will be tucked inside listening to the howling wind whip around some new snow that is falling.
Happy New Year.