Hey there blog! Sorry to have been neglectful and I have to admit that there has not been much blog-worthy activity, actually not a lot of activity at all in the sewing room over the last six weeks or so. Doesn't mean I won't get there. Life has thrown a wrench or two in the works and now it is garden season as well, so the competition for my time has been fierce.
In the meantime, I am eagerly awaiting Katrina Rodabaugh's new book Make Thrift Mend, and while I wait I purchased a little present for myself, a mending toolkit from Katrina's Etsy shop. I am so happy to have received it. I feel giddy with joy, something akin to that childhood Christmas morning joy.
The contents are perfect as well, a pair of sashiko needles, some thread, a couple of pieces of denim, ruler, marking pencil, a lovely small notebook. I don't actually have any denim that requires mending at the moment, but I am hoping that this little bag will become my essential emergency kit to keep in the house. I intend to add small scissors, and a few other basic all-purpose mending items for those most common small things that seem to turn up regularly, and only don't get accomplished immediately because I am too tired or lazy to go outside and up the stairs to the studio. Yes it is true, I can be that lazy.
As for other activities, I am making a couple of baptismal banners for my church this week, and then hope to return to cataloging and eventually sewing. Visions of summer dresses are dancing in my head. More soon. Not an empty promise..... or so I intend (hope).
