Favorite jacket updated

A long long time ago... sounds like the start of a song, doesn't it? I had/have a jacket from Eileen Fisher that I adored. I loved it so much that my purse wore several holes in it. Above is only one of those holes.

I patched them, I had similar linen fabric and I decided why not just patch it and make it into a Boro Fabric creation, after all, I loved the jacket. Even after it was patched, however, the wimpy peach/pink/greypink color made it a spring jacket and I don't wear jackets in the Spring. I do wear light jackets in the Fall, however.

Finally, I broke out the dye. I hoped that the patch was similar enough to the original linen to dye, and while I was at it, I dyed a hot pink T-shirt that I never word because it was ...... hot pink. What I was thinking I don't know. I also dyed some inoffensive greyish t shirts too. Remember, my daily uniform now is a t shirt and whatever jeans/cords/shorts are appropriate to the temperature. I can't recall the last time I wore anything else.... so I now have 3 t-shirts in various shades of blue/bluegreen .. and this!

I LOVE it. It really dyed well.. that dark spot on the lower right side is where I patched another hole, so it looks ok in real life. I have a lightweight fallish jacket that I can't wait to wear. ALTHOUGH it is linen. I guess that means I have to iron it first. Or iron it second after I find the iron that I haven't seen in a year or so. Always something, I guess.

More apartment interiors

Several years ago.. maybe longer than I want to admit, I decided that I needed more storage space in my old apartment and I moved my bed up into the air. Not really FAR up, about 4.5 feet. Under the raised bed I was able to store not 1 but 2!! flat file cabinets. 10 drawers of big flat storage for paper and completed art works. I loved it. When I moved, the movers took the bed apart and re-assembled it in the new apartment. It is a little more "flexible" than it used to be, it sometimes sways a little if I roll around at night, but on the whole it is still storing both 10 drawers of flat paper AND my extensive stash of knitting yarn.....or at least most of it...AND my button and bakelite bits stash.

Attractive, however, it was not. You will also notice that I never got a real ladder, instead using some little library stairs and a stool painted to match nothing else in the room to get into bed at night.

Sienna and Clem were happy with it all though. Last week I got another surge of energy and decided the time had come to do something about that mess in the bedroom. 8 yards of fabric, a sewn hem, a staple gun and a lot of sweat later .... TA DAAAA!
I even found a fabric that matched the bottom of the stool and portions of the Chinese rug. NOW... all that is left is to dig some finished artwork out of the flat files and hang it on the walls. Almost 8 months after moving in, I am closing in on sort of finished.

I never am finished, that is not my style, but I am at least not wincing when people see the bedroom. You will notice, however, that I am still not making the bed. Hey! It is MY bed and it is hard to make. So I don't. Eventually I will figure out that part of civilization. For now...

Happy Mother's Day to me.

Travis and I are in sync, he called and offered to buy me the fabric to do this right after I finished it. How nice it is to have a child across the country who still somehow knows what will make his mother smile..

Mags should know what this is....

I just found out Mags is doing this too..
I got a late start on the journal class, and it is going slowly for me.

I have an ancient Kenmore sewing machine, and I do love it, because it does everything I need and has a lot of decorative stitches.

Best of all, it can be fixed without dealing with anything computerized, since it predates computerization for sewing machines. (I did say it was ancient, right?)

It is acting up a little lately, and I just had it tuned up, so I am hoping it is still an operator error issue. I haven't used it in a while, and I have forgotten a lot of how it works...sigh

In any case, I have finally gotten a bit started, so Mags eventually I will put it up in the group site, and hope that by then I will have some better color. Now to trim it out and sew on a button.

I have LOTS of buttons to choose from, so that is going to be fun.