The Apron Is Finished!

I have finished the apron!  I do have to repeat to myself that perfection is not to be found in this life:  I am not entirely happy with the finishing of the rickrack but hey, it's done and I can actually put up a couple of pictures. My plan is to wash it and iron it and then pack it up to send to Cece, hopefully today and hopefully in time for Thanksgiving.  I may do one last thing (tack down the tie ends more securely) before I actually put it in the mail . . .

And so it goes!  I have a really hard time feeling that any project is truly done while it is within my sight.  After a while (like months) the flaws fade into the background and don't leap out at me every time I look at the garment or quilt or whatever but it's hard at first.

Now, on to the next project though maybe I should just finish a few things I have already started, like binding Matthew's quilt?

Midway on the apron . . .

Since I seem to have inadvertently published the first post, I guess I'll keep going.

I have spent my afternoon sewing on my sister's apron.  Things are never as perfect as I want them, but then this is an apron.  Repeat after me:  Perfection is not to be found in this life.  It's certainly not to be found in my sewing.  On the other hand, I think it looks pretty cute so far.  I probably will have to go out and buy some rickrack to finish off the rough points (it's part of the pattern which may explain why this pattern does leave some things curiously unfinished) but it'll give some body to the neckline anyway.  It'll also be kind of busy but maybe that's OK too--it makes the gravy splashes almost invisible!

Tomorrow, the ruffle.

A small introduction

About two years ago I was displaced from my sewing room when my husband's mother moved in with us due to declining health.  She is still with us so I am still displaced, but I've been trying to make the best of it.  From the first month when I just had a pile of unfinished projects, washed fabrics, tools and patterns sitting in the middle of the new room's floor, to just yesterday when I straightened up the table top where I theoretically cut out my new quilts and garments, that room has been a work in progress.  My plan here is to take a picture of the very orderly mess and try to chronicle my efforts to work through some of the backlog.  While organizing, I discovered that I have some very interesting and inspiring fabrics in there, many of which I had completely forgotten.  OK, most of which I had completely forgotten.

I confess, I started to write this a couple of weeks ago and then just got distracted and lost interest.  However, I am back and I think I'll be trying to do some more writing--just without pictures for the moment.

Project I cut out the day before yesterday:  an apron for my sister, made from chicken fabrics purchased on my Washington state trip this summer, supplemented by something in my stash whose origin is a total mystery . . .