Stay at home means more sewing

 Yes our stay at home/lockdown order got extended again. So what does that mean to me...not much has changed. I am at home and getting some projects checked off my to-do list.  Not all things are sewing related though. Yesterday I spent the day outside working in the yard and some painting on the rims of my winter tires. Some of these jobs were things my hubby did but they have become my tasks to complete now. I do know my limits and when I reach them...I head for the sewing room to relax.

2 done 8 to go

This week I started a project that I received in late January. My uncle passed away and his family asked if I would make memory pillows for them with his shirts. Now because of covid, I was not able to be at the funeral and so this is a fitting way for me to honour him and his memory for his family. I had started with a tester one(there were extra  shirts) then found a video on how to make the pillows with the collar still on. I think they look pretty cool.  I will be adding an embroidered patch to the front as well, just not sure what it will say as yet. As I was cutting apart the shirts, I realized that a man's large shirt contains at least 3 fat quarters and possibly a 4th if you added all the little pieces and sleeves together. So I am sure I will have leftovers that I will put to a good use. This has been the perfect project to get me sewing and helping me to decide what I will work on next.

Of course every quilter has UFO and I am no stranger to that. But which one should I work on. Most of my UFO are finished tops so that means they need basting and machine or hand quilting. These days I like to do a little of both on a quilt. The machine quilting acts as basting for the hand quilting and the quilt gets finished a bit quicker than if I hand quilted the whole thing.

When it is break/tea time...I will be seeing what Kathy is up to this week. She is in the same lockdown as I am and I know the time is getting long.  It is always interesting to see what everyone is working on and to see how there seems to be a resurgence in cross stitch over the last year or so. Maybe I will have to get out my cross stitch project that isn't finished, from 12 years ago! yikes

I have to share what I received this week. The members of the band that my hubby was part of , gifted this chair to me in his memory. Seeing the chair was one thing but reading the plaque brought instant tears. I hope he has found a comfy bench to sit on to wait, because I am hoping he will be waiting for a long while.