My Latest Sewing Project!

Here it is... My latest sewing project. I've not picked up a needle and thread in over a month, literally.

Yes, I've been going through with -drawals from sewing.  I've been more irritable, impatient, trouble sleeping, headaches... all the stress that I would normally have stitched into fabric never made it out of my body.

So, my latest sewing project is a combination of necessity, genetic frugality (from my Scottish bloodlines), and eccentricity (from all of my Southern bloodlines).

Glasses.  That little screw has been falling out for months. One of my sculpting tools is perfect for putting it back in. I've glued the little little bugger in, but it is as tenacious in seeking freedom as one of the terriers!

Finally a piece of the earpiece broke at that hinge. No way to put the screw back in. Electrician's tape kinda, sorta, maybe held it together the latter part of last week, but my glasses would fall off when I looked down, leaving that ear piece sticking out of my hair like a pencil behind my ear. 

This happened during speeches, meetings, etc. People SHOULD have laughed, but their good manners restrained them.

I DO have another pair of glasses, bought at the same time and put up to wait for the day I had scratched these lenses with porcelain dust.  Er... but I can't remember where I put the extra pair of glasses. 

I'm TOUGH on eye glasses, or rather, the porcelain dust is TOUGH on glasses... like a pair every six months!

SO, I'm rather proud of my hand-sewn glasses (in a laugh- with- me way).

I did a button -hole stitch all around the little circle where the screw would have gone if the itty bitty piece had not fallen off.

If I had a little time, I think I would like to re-do it in a pretty yellow embroidery floss.  Maybe a little beaded thingy to dangle down from it. 

I do recommend using betweens (needles)... the little bitty ones I use in needle turn applique... if you ever have need to customize your own pair of glasses. *wink*

Now I have time to continue the archaeological dig for my other pair of glasses, and the money saved can go toward a new photocopier. 

Yes, the photocopier that has been with me since 1992 when I established my studio, has passed away.  Today.  That was 16 years from one heavily-used photocopier!  I have been quite proud of the little girl, churning out the copies year after year, tirelessly... long after I had paid for her in full. Sixteen years should be some kinda record for a heavily -used photocopier!

I'm really bummed about it. Like losing a friend or a pet.  I wonder if Unc and Gordon could be talked into digging a BIG hole out with the pet graves so that I can plant a tree on top of the copier grave. 

That does have something of a poetic ending to it... tree planted to commemorate the death of a photocopier that processed a gazillion little pieces of trees (paper).

Here's a bouquet of the latest daffodils to start blooming in the yard.  We have three or four varieties of pink and white daffodils. I'm not sure which one is in this picture. Salome and Pink Surprise are two names I remember planting.

The first daffodil picture is of Salome, I am pretty sure.  It opens as a pinky coral and matures into a pale peachy pink with a yellow halo at the base of the trumpet.

If I have time, I'll look in the external hard drive where we store all the archived digital pictures and scans and find a pretty picture I set up back in 1993 or 1994 in the parlor with these pink daffodils. I had planned to paint it in oils.

Yes, one day, I WILL get back to oils and canvas!

The second bouquet of daffodils, picked one week earlier is not Professor Einstein... and I can't remember the name.  Do you know?

Consider either of these to be a bouquet for you from the farm.  I wish you could all drop by and pick big armfuls of these happy flowers for yourself... especially on a typical Monday like today.

Comments

[The Other Elle]

Ha! Send me the screw, if you ever get new glasses. My screws keep getting lost. I don't know how they work themselves out of the holes they are in, but...that earpiece like a pencil behind the ear? That's my new LOOK.

[June]

What a brilliant way to handle the eyeglass dilemna! The same thing happens to my husband's glasses almost on a daily basis and it's driving my poor near-sighted eyes crazy trying to fix them for him.

Your daffodils are gorgeous and such a wonderful reminder of Spring.