Last project done!!!!

Well as my mother-in-law would say...Done is for cooking.  But...I'm using it to indicate that the last of the four big projects has been baked!  The stole is finished and it was such fun work to think about color and what to do with that color.  And of course...the Doris sewing machine is such a HUGE help.   Now on to give it to our minister Darren.  He gave me a few ideas which I used but a whole bunch of what was baked will be a surprise.  I'll like it because I'll be the one to see him wearing it.  He just wears it!  This stole was the easiest one to put together.  I learned a whole lot about the weight of the fabric and how lighter is better.  A big problem can happen if the stole fabric is heavy which makes turning the stole to the right side out just difficult.   I should take a break to let my brain relax.  Knitting should do that.

Last post...Thurs...Today is Sat.

Woo...sewed all day yesterday and this morning I finished with all the fun bits, buttons and pieces on the processional banners. What fun.   Wooo...Loud and stunning if I must say so myself.  Because the sanctuary is so big with gray stone...LOUD colors are happy in that space.  And...Doug and I took all the ribbon rings the children will use...processional banners...sashes Rosie's choir will wear, to church this morning.  Color is gone from the dining room and the bushels of color have landed at church.  Such a great feeling to know that all  is at church and I cannot mess any more even if I wanted to.  Doug has taken some interesting processional banner pictures at church with the sun shinning in the windows of the sanctuary in just the right places.  Now...on to the Sr. minister stole project.  Fun, fun.  I thought I would start Mon.  Ha, ha...I started today!!!!  Just can't stay away.  I'm really going to take care, to go slow so as to NOT make any mistakes.  And there will be stole no. 2 for Ronnie Bell who is ordained in June.  I have some time but the ideas are flying through my head already.   Green with words from Micah.  What does the Lord require...do justice...etc.  My last stole was for minister Bryan who told me his favorite scripture was Psalm 91.  Well it is a very  LONG Psalm but I stitched all those words onto his stole.  Such a great way to remember scripture.  Woo...Ronnie is easier on me.  So..the beat goes on.  Well sewing machine goes...!!!

Last post...Wed. Next post Thurs.

Rain, Rain...Man is it raining.  Soup kitchen today just a little sparse.  Way to wet to get out for lots of folks although we had a nice gang of folks.  After finishing there saw a soup kitchen guy walking to the hardware store very slowly with a cane.  Woo...not a day to be walking so I took him home...Now...only half as wet as he would have been.  He walked a long way.  Then back home to sew...and things are going well.  One processional banner is 95 percent finished...the other maybe 80.  And of course the second was easier than the first.  Now to finish the first.  Such a fun to think of how to glitz the banners.  And I have a whole lot of options thanks to my great mentor Doris.  She was such a gift and her sewing machine which is mine now is just tooling along as she did.  Tonight is choir practice.  Tomorrow the kids.  And the rain continues...54 degrees today but tonight the bottom drops out once again.  Really drops out.  Should be an interesting tomorrow.  My hope is that the fog is gone.  Michigan grand kids.  One day of school in the last two weeks.  First SNOW...now ICE!

The sewing machine is smokin'

Woo...Scissors flying! Sewing machine smokin' and my back hurts!  Time for a break.  Well...way past time.  Working on the processional banners.  So it's cut and paste!  well, cut and sew come to think of it.  Who would have thought this would be such a big project.  Figuring out how to put the thing together is part of the work.  It needs a 1,2,3,4 approach.  Not a 1, 3,2,4 approach.  So...think, think which should help me make fewer mistakes.  . And then when one is finished it's do it all over again.  The second one should be easier.  Well, just a little bit easier.  So happy Bread and Bowl soup kitchen is tomorrow.  I'll be out of the shop at least for a morning.  Looks like the finish time will be Sat.  Hip, hip hooray.  Then the preacher's stole.  I can't say I'm board.   The sewing room looks very interesting.  That's to say it's a mess...buttons...yarn...beads...gold cord...more containers of yarn...more buttons...and scraps of fabric with thread everywhere.  That's my life for now and a few more days. I'm just happy I have the space to mess in! 

The good continues.

Mirror bird is at church...on the community outreach board.  Forgot to take the candles with me to church today so maybe Thurs...soup kitchen day.  Met with Amy and Cory about the big...big...church event on the 24th.  Showed them three stoles that the children will wear on that day.  There are 18 kids and just by pure chance I made 19 with the hope I could use a few somewhere else.  Well...that's not going to happen.  I'm working on the processional banners now.  Woo.  Great idea with colors of the rainbow in strips...All 40 strips  some long and some shorter. in rainbow colors.  Then some will have mirror glued to them...some colorful yarn...some with metallic threads. And some with all three.  Should be stunning.  It was cut fabric...sew...turn...iron...sew...and then all over again.  That's just the first parts.  And because we have two aisles...there will be two of them in the processional.  The choir and the kids joining church that day will have ribbons to swing and dance with.  And.. choir member.NOAH is the best at that...well he's had a chance to play with them.  But...he's really, really good.  So...the sewing machine has been hard at work.  And...the machine is not finished.  Doug said...you have lots of time till the 24...NO.  I would love to have them finished by the end of the week.  Well...maybe end of next week.  Embellishment take so much time but really is fun.  Oh, yes...there there is a stole for the preacher!  .  So...busy is the word and it's all good.  Had a really good Herb meeting last night.  Think spring!!!!  Snow is gone...warm this week but the cold will be back at some point. 

Super Friday.

Started with a visit with Eric as I took him to catch the bus to work.  Then on to the Y for a 30 minute walk.  Noah and Andrew came for the day.  I poured a really pretty blue candle for church. Two feet tall...5 inches across.   Noah made a video of the process.  Then glued pieces of mirror on to a dove that will hang at church. Told Noah about the 7 yrs of bad luck we will have because we smashed good mirrors.  Then added ribbons to rings for church.  Noah had a blast "dancing" with the ribbons.  It was beautiful. ...then made chocolate chip cookies.  Then watched the kids sled ride on the hill.  Fed the birds did a little snow shoveling...just a little on the patio to get to the feeders.  5 inches of beautiful powder snow fell last night.  Trees are beautiful .  Knitted...watched a little TV...started working on a stole for the preacher. Made supper...played cards and did the final touches on the big blue beautiful candle.  Now that was a good day.