I have taken the sewing machine from the box!
And yesterday it was sunny. Of course, today it is again cloudy and in addition, cold with snow predicted sometime tonight. But oh well, that's winter. I don't mind the snow, at least it takes and refracts all the light, however little it might be.
As to the sewing machine, it was just a bit complicated.
Ok, I lie. It was really complicated and I had to approach it in bits until I felt warmed up and things started to fall into place, like the horizontal spool pin and its cap. Once I had the bobbin filled and placed and the top of the machine threaded, I felt pretty darn good.
Inspired by fellow blogger Jessie at What You Wish For, I decided to try my hand at pillow cases before trying the John Deere curtains that are on order from Keith. I deconstructed an old pillow case and used that for the pattern for the new one, but my piece of fabric is shorter than the pillow case, which is all one piece with two side seams.
What to do? Make two pieces, resulting with three seams, side and bottom? Make it shorter? Will it still fit my pillows? Or I could make the wide edges at the opening from other pieces of fabric, sew them on later, which would be more complicated?
I don't know, but I'm enjoying myself and the dining room table is a mess.
I also made Alaskan Salmon Patties with Lemon Tartar sauce for dinner, which was yummy and something I could only do because Keith is on Staff Duty (twenty four hours of manning the telephone and being point man for any emergencies that should arise during that time.)
Later on, I'm looking forward to curling up in bed with a gentle romance novel (with surprisingly good dialogue for the genre!) and then sleeping sans ear plugs. But I'm also looking forward to waking up to an adorably exhausted, long legged husband coming home.
Yum.
