Today’s finish is place mats. Each place mat has 3 shirts on it, from a pattern by Carolyn Friedlander. All the plaid and stripe fabrics are rescued from shirts at various resale shops in my area. Is it a concern that I found myself eyeballing men’s shirts at a recent event and thinking how… Continue reading Twelve Shirts!
Hooray! I finished this Mini Tiny Dancer. The colorful triangles come from the scraps of an earlier Mini Tiny Dancer. Here is the earlier one, for contrast AND this new one is done in time for the 3rd quarter of Finish A Long 2017. Here is my commitment blog… Continue reading A Tiny Finish
Yoga was directed by the word allow. My instructor said this had to do with allowing one’s body to move into new positions and to allow for possibility. My immediate response was that my week had much to do with resistance. As I spent time on my mat, I thought about this disconnect. I participated… Continue reading Allow?
This was our yoga word of the day. Our instructor used it to think about entering a position, perhaps starting the movement slowly, pausing, and then trying to go further. I found it to have multiple meanings for my yoga practice. Someone in class is a noisy breather. I needed to have patience with that.… Continue reading Patience
My yoga instructor told us this had been the word guiding her practice this past week. She then spoke about changing our various yoga postures in a way meant to challenge not demand our bodies. This is all well and good. However it made me think of other areas involving adjustments. Last week I realized… Continue reading Adjust
While my yoga instructor was inviting us to breathe into our hips, which sounds really weird to me, a friend’s name popped into my head. I have not seen her for some time, this led to feeling guilty about having fallen out of contact. While I am not at all sure how this related… Continue reading Guilty
It is time to plan my next three months of quilt finishes. I am starting with two which did not quite get done: This quilt was a High School graduation gift in 2005. It has been well loved and was returned for repair. While I am not sure I can do it justice without… Continue reading Half Way There!
I took some of my house guests to my yoga class this past Friday. Each had some yoga experience, one more limited than the other. One has some physical challenges. Nonetheless we got everyone settled with a mat (and in one instance, also a chair). I found myself somewhat distracted by how my guests were… Continue reading Levels of Distraction
This cheerful table runner is done! I can’t imagine why I waited so long to finish it up. The hexies have been sewn for some time. They were started in a Mickey Depre workshop based on her Pieced Hexies books. So easy and fun to make. There was a brief time when I thought the… Continue reading A Completed Table Runner
I just finished reading a book with an interesting page set up. Some of the top edges were not cut as usual. Those pages were stuck together. As I read and separated pages, I thought about how people used to always have to do that on a first pass through a book. And I… Continue reading Connections
Pondering It All 