so first of all, here's one of the 30 pincushions I made, three different kinds, while it was nice and cool inside the house on Sunday:
I had a fabric from Greenfield, Ohio's Ben Franklin store that was printed with cute little sewing machines, treadle ones, modern ones, in different colors. Those were cut out, the fabric pressed back, and attached on the front of little pillows I stuffed with ground walnut hulls. The attaching was done by stitch, add a bead, stitch, add a bead . . . makes a pretty little finished edge, taa dah! A practical little pincushion.
This is one of those days where wheels and cogs are revolving all around me, seen and unseen--Pat and her friend are stopping by at lunch time to have Craig help them at the house with a computer issue, two fellow shopkeepers just came by before opening and we loaded both their vehicles with goodies from here that other friends brought on Saturday and I brought from my basement stash. The food pantry folks came by and picked up two containers, one from a farmer's market baker that was donating her leftovers, and the other a hefty paper sack of pie crust flour that I overstocked at home. Need to make final arrangements for the frozen bread arriving tomorrow and being proofed tomorrow night and baked on Thursday morning for the first go-round trials (think: perils of pauline, only for me instead).
We're getting together on Friday morning to remove our shoes and socks and scrub down the sidewalk in front of the Farmhouse Ice Cream parlor, as a little "we love you too" birthday gift for their big one-year birthday party on Saturday. A good kid job so hoping others will bring their young'uns to be all silly and wet and laugh with us while we do our good deed for the day. What's more fun than playing with water in the hot summertime? Peace.
After you wash the walk, don't forget your sidewalk chalk to draw them a big birthday cake:)
Posted by: Bev | July 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM