I love long weekends

Usually, I avoid Black Friday shopping like the plague.  The one exception is usually the sale at Joann Fabrics.  It was the $1.29/yard flannel that got me in there this year and had me standing in line.  Flannel make great quilt backs and I also use it to make receiving blankets for babies. 

 

Just about all I did this weekend was sew.  For instance, on Saturday, two yards of fabric yielded 8 cloth napkins.  With just a couple hours of work, I'll be a little kinder to the planet.  Besides, the fabric is much prettier than white paper napkins.

 

Have you ever bought something just because it was beautiful even though you had no idea what you were going to do with it?  That's what happened with this fabric.  I saw it and I had to have it.  It didn't hurt that it's the most beautiful batik I've ever seen.  It's even more beautiful in person, believe me.

All I did this weekend was work with fabric:  making napkins, sewing receiving blankets and matching burp cloths; washing and cutting fabric for my quilt-in-progress.  Over the past few days, fabric is the only thing I've been interested in working with.  My poor spinning wheel is feeling neglected and I haven't touched my socks since I got back from Houston.  (I am freezing!  The temp is set at 68 and I'm wearing a t-shirt, sweatshirt and a double-thick poncho-like thingy made of fleece... and I'm still freezing.  I need a cup of hot chocolate.  With marshmallows, of course.)  Even the needle-felted balls have fallen by the wayside.  I need to be moving around, not sitting on the couch felting, knitting or spinning.  (Maybe because I'm so damn cold!)

If the hot chocolate doesn't work, I'm joining these guys:

 

Comments

[keri]

Brr! I'm darn cold too - it's freezing over here!

It's going to be a cold winter, it's starting early this year. We try only to run the heat first thing in the morning and right before bed but it's getting harder and harder.

Love the napkins - such a pretty print! How did you do the edges?

[gayle]

I need to get some sewing done, but haven't used my machine for a year. And in that time, my sewing room has been the depository for everything that didn't belong anywhere else... At this point, it'll take more energy than I have just to unearth enough room to sew.
*sigh*