tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780304182186306542024-03-13T09:03:51.808-07:00In Over My HeadGwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.comBlogger451125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-69686560974177639542015-11-04T10:03:00.000-08:002015-11-04T14:18:51.991-08:00Welcome to a New Chapter Volume<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I hope you make the best of it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And I hope you see things that startle you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I hope you feel things you never felt before. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I hope you meet people with a different point of view. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I hope you live a life you’re proud of. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It probably seems like I fell off the face of the earth or I've been in hiding - but, actually, I've been focusing on making some MAJOR changes in my life - in our lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My husband and I - after 33 years of happily being DINKS (double income, no kids) - have committed to adopting a 14 (almost 15) year old girl from the Florida foster care system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(For now, we are legally prohibited from disclosing much on social media - so I will call her "A".)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the end of September, I left my job / career as a research psychologist for the Navy, to focus on being a mom and building our new family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am at home during the week - cleaning and nesting - with ample time to enjoy weaving and sewing! (For now!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We met our future forever daughter a couple of weeks ago and will get to spend time with her again this coming weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The process will (as long as "A" is ready and in agreement) progress from supervised visits, to unsupervised visits in her home town, to visits in our home, to moving in with us, to adoption. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The title of my blog has never felt more appropriate. :)</span></div>
Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-23535232677353300222015-04-03T06:00:00.000-07:002015-04-03T11:29:20.062-07:00A Seamstress's Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my favorite authors passed away recently, Sir Terry Pratchett. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In his Discworld, people communicated across long distances via "Clacks Towers" - tall wooden towers built within line-of-sight of each other, that passed messages via a type of semaphore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the son of the inventor of the Clacks Towers died, the operators began sending his name from tower to tower, with the preface GNU - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this way, his son's name was perpetually being passed on the Clacks, always being "spoken" and hence, his son never truly died... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, Sir Pratchett had a large community of fans, and some of them got the idea to honor him and keep him alive by having his name always being passed along the internet. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can read more about it here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wanted to be part of this - and so I started Googling and reading and Googling and reading - and I found a way to make this work for my blog in Blogger! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, that's right - when you opened my blog today and started reading this post, Terry Pratchett's name was passed, in the background, to your web browser. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you'd like to add his name to your (blogger-hosted) blog, here is how to do it: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Go to your Blogger dashboard (where you write new posts). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Don't worry if you don't understand HTML - I don't either! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Basically, you need to add one sentence near the very beginning. Here is where I put it in my template (there was some guessing and finger crossing involved...) - and it worked! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Note that this is the very first few lines of HTML code in my Blogger template. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found this information (how to put this in a Blogger web site) here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2zcdfo/gnu_chrome_extension/" target="_blank">reddit discussion</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can find ways to embed his name in other types of websites here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/" target="_blank">GNU Terry Pratchett</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, there are two free extensions to Google Chrome (the web browser) that will alert you if you have opened a web page that is sending Sir Pratchett's name across the clacks - ooops, I mean the internet... </span></div>
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-13769679789465767982015-03-31T06:00:00.000-07:002015-03-31T06:00:05.424-07:00A Lemonade Break?!?! <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've got a tried-and-true (TNT) pattern for a work-appropriate A-Line skirt and I have made it three times with cotton prints: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now what I really want is a TNT pattern for a casual, comfy, yet still work-acceptable, top - one that I can wear with these skirts or with blue jeans - depending on my mood and the day of the week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The version that I like is the v-neck with short sleeves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily, my memory is bad enough that I don't have to embarrass myself by telling you how long I've had this pattern and these fabrics sitting in my stash, but over the weekend I finally made some time to start on one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are 10 pleats on the front, 6 pleats on the back and 3 pleats on each sleeve - for a grand total of 22 pleats! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used scissor snips to make the outer point of each pleat and pins to make the inner most point of each pleat and then connected the dots to re-create the pleat lines on the fabric. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The waist pleats get folded up and the bust pleats get folded down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had put in all the pleats, added the v-neck facing, stitched the side seams - all without problems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I spent quite a bit of time puzzling over some instructions to begin inserting the sleeves. I finally got them sorted out and was feeling quite proud, when I turned the page over and came across this: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What?!? The instructions are actually telling me to take a lemonade break!?!? And they are warning me that the next few bits are going to be complicated? Yikes!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I took their advice and called it quits for the day. Here's what I've got so far: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am pretty happy with how my v-neck came out - you can see the facing, but it isn't stretched or distorted in any way. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pleats in half their glory - 5 in front, 3 in back and 3 on the sleeves. The top is much too big for the dressmaker's dummy. Hopefully it will hang more nicely on my body. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I guess it's time to read the instructions three times and then see if I can make it work! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The two and a half day workshop on Andean Pebble Weave was absolutely awesome! <a href="https://backstrapweaving.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Laverne Waddington</a> is an amazing teacher - possibly because of the way that she had to learn backstrap weaving... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her first "teachers" were a mother-daughter team whose idea of "teaching" was to let her watch while they wove . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They barely spoke to her - it was actually a couple of days before she even realized that the daughter spoke Spanish! But even though the daughter could speak Spanish, they both refused to answer any of her questions or to slow down their fingers so that she could see what they were doing... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's amazing that she picked anything up at all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But she did learn how to weave and she also learned how to teach backstrap weaving! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She started out by inspiring us by showing us lots of gorgeous samples: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aren't these beautiful? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next, she was SO organized - you should have seen all the supplies she brought for each student! We each had a little plastic tub with rubber bands, small wooden swords, small dowels to form cross sticks, an un-pick tool to remove all our mistakes - you name it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She even prepared two warps for each of us! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, her real skill was in her ability to demonstrate the techniques and explain the structure of pebble weave. She used these square magnets - rearranging them as necessary - to illustrate how plain pebble weave is formed, and then how certain rows are changed to create beautiful patterns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once we understood the basic structure, she taught us how to read simple pattern charts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We used C-clamps on tables to hold one end of our warps and dowels and backstraps to hold the other end to our bodies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, on to my efforts! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the first sample band I wove in pebble weave - it is a pattern of X's and O's: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I first started, Laverne thought I was putting the warp under too much tension and beating my weft too hard, so I focused on easing up on everything while I worked on this design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At this point, we had used the two warps that Laverne prepared for us, and so we learned how to prepare our own warps. Using my own warp, for my third band, I tried the meandering river with islands pattern: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since then, I moved on to the design that I've been wanting to weave since I first saw it - a llama! Check it out! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sorry I've been neglecting my blog lately - I had a couple of extremely stressful weeks at work. As my friends and I used to say when we were children, it was h-e-double-toothpicks! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I survived and, over the weekend, I had my reward! A two and a half day workshop on Andean Pebble Weave - a technique in backstrap weaving - with the guru (gur-ess?) of backstrap weaving, <a href="https://backstrapweaving.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Laverne Waddington</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was intense and amazing! But let me back up a little bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weekend was the <a href="http://www.ftwg.org/index.htm" target="_blank">Florida Tropical Weaver Guild</a>'s Annual Conference, held at the Lake Yale Baptist Center in Leesburg, Florida. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The conference went from Thursday afternoon through Sunday afternoon. We stayed in hotel/dormitory rooms on the property:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Evening activities included a fashion show and a business meeting. As you might imagine, the business meeting was a bit boring, but I did learn something interesting. Do you have any idea how much it costs to pull off an event like this? Turns out it's a bit over $25,000! And they need approximately 90 attendees to break even (their goal). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, it's a relatively small conference compared to some of the sewing conventions I've attended... Yikes - can you even imagine how much one of those costs to organize and hold? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you have one <i>good </i>friend, you're more than lucky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My 10-year-old sewing friend originally wanted to jump directly from sewing a tote bag to sewing a quinceanera dress (think wedding dress for a 15 year old!) and I tried to steer her towards a simpler project, like an elastic-waist skirt... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She rejected the simple skirt idea, and went instead for slippers. So, over the weekend, we made her these beautiful bedroom booties: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hopefully it's obvious that she picked the fabric! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She also did most of the sewing herself and maintained focus and attention for probably close to 3 hours! Not bad for a 10-year-old, right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't wait to see what she wants to do next! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the weaving front, I sent a picture of my weaving to an e-friend and she figured out what I had done wrong with my guitar strap pattern. Not only that, but she was able to "reach" from Bolivia, through the computer to Florida, and show me how to fix it. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finished the guitar strap on Sunday night - just in time to take it to work on Monday and give it to my friend! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm am so happy with how it came out! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And he loved it! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided to do one more weaving project before I returned to working on the panels to cover my weaving bench seat cushion - a guitar strap for a friend of mine. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He asked for red and black. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I played with an online pattern generator (<a href="http://www.carolingianrealm.info/PatternGenerator.php" target="_blank"><i><b>here</b></i></a>) to come up with this plan: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I set up a warp to do this pattern, and discovered that it was too narrow - so I added some extra red and black warps on either side of this pattern. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, I started weaving! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's how it is coming out: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I guess you could say that it bears some resemblance to my plan, in that it does contain red, black and white yarn... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's the thing - I think that my best bet at this point, is to just not show anyone else what my original plan looked like... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, can it be our little secret? ;)</span></div>
Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-18584241584815147682015-02-23T06:00:00.000-08:002015-02-23T06:00:06.737-08:00Weaving AND Sewing!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">everybody has to leave their home </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and come back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so they can love it again for all new reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I've completed three more key fobs AND I even snuck in some sewing over the weekend! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First, the fobs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I tried to go for a fancy, "comb" pattern with my second fob:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I like the colors, but the pattern just didn't work for me - it feels static - kind of like a ladder... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, for my third fob, I pretty much copied a pattern from someone else participating in the weave-along (WAL): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I LOVE it! I think it came our really, really cool! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, for my fourth fob, I decided to focus on my weaving technique, rather than the color pattern. I just did a series of stripes, with each narrower than the one to its left. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't love it at first, but it is growing on me... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The key fobs were a blast - each one only takes a couple of hours, I learned a lot about design and I was able to practice my technique! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That being said, I've decided to move on from the WAL - I owe a friend a guitar strap and, of course, I have two more of those major panels to do, in order to make a cover for the cushion on my weaving bench. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As for the sewing, remember when my 10-year-old friend and I made a tote bag (<a href="http://gwenstriptych.blogspot.com/2015/01/heaven.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>)? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, many of her friends and her mother's friends clamored for one of their own. One such friend, Mayra, actually made arrangements to come over so that I could help her sew one to carry her workout clothes and shoes to the gym each week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We started with a quick trip to Joann's for some fabric. She liked lots of the fabrics as we wandered up and down the aisles of bolts, but I kept waiting for that moment when she fell in love... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then it happened - she was totally smitten by a brown cotton with multi-colored Spirograph-like flowers and designs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've seen that look in the eyes of so many people - I love it when it happens and I can SO relate to it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I walked her through the steps of sewing up this tote bag - she used a green canvas to reinforce (& decorate) the bottom and to make the straps. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We lined it with a cream-colored canvas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And she loves it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She told me that she kept touching it, because she couldn't believe that it was real and that she had made it herself! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The whole morning made me miss sewing, and I browsed through my waiting projects and picked out two fabrics to make two versions of the same, A-Line skirt (a TNT for me). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finished one and got half-way through the other. I'll post pictures later this week. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It felt so good to be back on my sewing machine! Like coming home... :)</span></div>
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-39754829238541717402015-02-16T06:50:00.000-08:002015-02-16T06:50:33.246-08:00Little Colored Pieces of Love<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our ex-foster teen is here visiting and we spent Saturday morning at a local make-your-own-mosaic shop doing art work together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is Carolyn (13) with her "Be Free" dove: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mariana (10) made a cross for me: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(She is such a sweetie!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And Mariana's art teacher (her age? let's just say that there was a death threat involved here...) made a wall decoration for her baby's room (a daughter, due in June): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made a decoration for my sewing room. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, despite the best efforts of my lungs to leave me, strike off on their own and make a new life for themselves, I have managed to convince them to stay and I have even gotten some weaving done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First, I finished my second, 47 inch long fabric panel! Here are the two panels, side by side, on the bench cushion that they will eventually be covering: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's a bit busy (you think?) - design is something that I need to learn about and work on - but it is still progress towards a goal. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And, remember that Key Fob Weave Along (WAL) that I joined? You know, the one with all the complicated rules? ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I actually wove a key fob last weekend too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am really happy with this design - I kind of copied it off someone else's fob - but the colors and color sequencing are all mine. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Boy, it's a nice change of pace to do a 1-inch wide, 6-inch long project, after two, 7-inch wide, 47-inch long projects!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've already got a plan for my next one - as usual, I jumped right from simple to insanely complicated and the design could easily crash and burn... Wish me luck! ;)</span></div>
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-12316228347677171512015-02-02T17:45:00.002-08:002015-02-02T17:45:55.346-08:00London and Limited Options<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I didn't even get to go to London... :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What's up with that?!? :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Man, I've got to say that, when you are searching the internet for cute clip art and silly (OR meaningful - I'm nothing if not flexible) quotes about bronchitis, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">your options are seriously limited! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't worry, I'll be better soon... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heck, I'd better be, or else the doctor who ordered me that painful shot in my tush is in big trouble! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">P.S. - my weekend pretty much sucked - I hope yours was better! </span></div>
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-35300927424715422732015-01-30T06:00:00.000-08:002015-01-30T06:00:05.677-08:00Miscellany <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">who found an answer as she found a key,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ George Eliot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"So, Gwen, how was your trip to see Ana in Mexico last weekend?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(The sound of someone rustling in her pocket...) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of weaving, I haven't started weaving any key fobs yet, but the other folks on the Ravelry site have been gorgeously productive! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Check out the work of the moderator, <a href="https://backstrapweaving.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><i>Laverne Waddington</i></a>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I zipped down to Mexico over the weekend and spent 2.5 days visiting with Ana. During that time, we browsed at a flea market that included a huge stall full of old magazines. Imagine my joy at finding a handful of sewing pattern magazines! It was like uncovering an unexpected, hidden treasure! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I purchased 8 of them, at $2.50 each! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are some images from 4 of them, for your enjoyment. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This first one may be a Spanish translation of the German sewing pattern magazine - it appears to have been published in March, 1987. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How awesome is that beret! Not to mention the creative application of suspenders... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next up, Moldes. This issue appears to be from 1997. (I was surprised by how difficult it was to find publication dates on many of the magazines. The cover of this one, for example, only says "Year 1, No. 6.")</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While the magazines I found are like today's Burda World of Fashion sewing pattern magazines in many ways, there are some interesting differences. For example, in many of these magazines, there is not a sketch of the garment on the same page as the photograph of the model in the garment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...and the insane, overlapping sewing pattern sheets to be traced: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It has been so delightful to browse through these magazines! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll share some images from the other four magazines (with more focus on the styles themselves) and some photos I took during my visit on another day... :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sorry, I didn't mean to leave you hanging after telling you that we are in the process of qualifying to become adoptive parents of a child in the foster care system. We're near the beginning of the process and we're in a waiting period, so there hasn't been much news... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I guess that makes this a good time to give you some background. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First, there are two basic types of adoption - private and public. Many of the adoptions you hear about are private - traveling over to a foreign country and adopting from an orphanage or connecting with a pregnant woman who, for whatever reason, wants to put her child up for adoption, covering her medical expenses and bringing home a newborn. Private adoptions are often very expensive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A public adoption - which is what we are pursuing - is when you connect with your state's foster system and seek out a child in the care of the state, someone whose parents have had their parental rights legally and permanently severed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This means that these children are most likely to be older and to have experienced significant trauma in their lives (from parental neglect and/or abuse, not to mention being in and out of foster homes for much of their lives). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These adoptions are also very inexpensive - the state bears the burden of the cost in order to find good homes for the children in their care. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can find pictures of the children in the foster care system who are looking for their forever families if you google "heart gallery." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Warning: Looking at those pictures and reading the short bios of the children may have a destabilizing effect on your current family structure! That is what got me started on this path... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In our state, the process to complete a public adoption has many steps. We have completed the first couple steps. In early December, we attended a one hour orientation session. The adoption worker did a good job of trying to give the attendees a realistic preview of what it means to open your home to a traumatized child, while, at the same time, trying NOT to scare off everybody in the room! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then we got our first "test" - an application packet that had to be completed and submitted within a week. Late applications are NOT accepted. Return home. Do not pass "Go." Do not collect $200. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The packet was about thirty pages - mostly with information about your finances, any criminal history, and a list of the places you have lived. They did ask a little bit about what you were looking for in a child (age range, gender, etc.) and there was one "essay question" about your experience with children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We submitted our application on time and were accepted to move on to the next step - which is a nine week parenting course. Our class session begins in mid-March and will meet once a week, for three hours at a time. We will finish in mid-May. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, assuming we do well in the course, the next step will be a "home study." One or more adoption workers will come to our house, put on white gloves and test for dust... Ooops, no - that's just my nightmare! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The adoption worker(s) will ensure that our home is a safe environment for a child and spend a lot of time getting to know us - our likes and dislikes, our strengths and weaknesses - all that stuff that will help her (or him) identify children who are most likely to be a good fit for our family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm hoping that our home study, which typically takes a month and apparently includes a lot more paperwork for us, will be completed in June. If that goes well, we may be meeting potential children next summer. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before agreeing to participate, I thought I'd better find out exactly how a Weave Along (WAL) works - what are the rules? What exactly would I be committing myself to? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, turns out it's pretty complicated - but I'll try to break it down for you...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yikes! Did you get all that? Is your head just all in a whirl? ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hmmm... That's an awful lot to commit to, but I think I'm going to give it a try. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, there is actually one more guideline. Laverne has encouraged us all to warp and weave only one key fob at a time - instead of preparing a long warp and then weaving lots of key fobs on it. This way, we'll get practice preparing warps - something I sorely need! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aren't those beautiful colors? I'm so happy with them! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This will be the narrowest yarn I've ever woven with - it is crochet cotton size 10. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I know the rules and I have my yarn - I am ready for my first WAL! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also known as: heaven! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's so nice! I hadn't realized how much the piles of clutter were dragging me down and limiting my productivity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the week after I gave Mariana her sewing machine, she made three tote bags - one of which she proudly carried to my house last Saturday. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was her own "pattern." She aligned two rectangles, right sides together, and stitched three sides. She turned it right side out and added a fabric strap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, it was a bit raggedy and wouldn't hold much weight without ripping - but she did it herself! She had the idea. She reasoned out a pattern. She applied the right-sides-together process that we used on the pillows. It was awesome! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It made me so happy to see that she was excited and motivated to sew! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I promptly forgot about my plans to weave and spent Saturday morning showing her how to sew a lined bag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We took pictures of each step on her cell phone, so that she could refer to them and recreate the process by herself at home. (Gotta love technology!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I showed her the process that I worked out to make small, lined bags to hold my <a href="http://www.gwynhug.com/" target="_blank">"How Much Fabric?" reference cards </a>- with these differences:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her patience, attention to detail and understanding are amazing - especially for a 10 year old! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She loves her new bag! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then I took her to Joann's and let her pick out more bag fabric. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't wait to see what she does with it! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think it's official. I have a sewing friend! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finally found a definition of success that I can live with! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weaving is still a bit "wobbly" in places, but I think it will be good enough to sit on! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...we could retire on its contents about now! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It took me a couple of weeks, but I finally got my next warp ready to weave! Here is the warp set up to do alternating rows of orange and blue (and no, I am not a Gators Fan). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know it's still looking a bit messy, but the last one looked messy at this stage too, and in the end it came out okay. So I have hopes for this one. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plus, NO WAY I am going to pull this out and try for a fourth time! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next weekend will be a long one, so hopefully I can make some real progress on this! And maybe even get into my sewing room! Wouldn't that be a nice change of pace? ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, my 10-year-old friend's Christmas present finally arrived in the mail and I was able to give it to her on Saturday: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yup, I got her her own sewing machine! She has done a couple of projects with me, on my machine, and she seems to like it. She's also pretty good at remembering things like: needle down before you turn a corner, needle up before you remove the fabric and sew in reverse a little bit at the beginning and end of each seam. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I showed her how to fill a bobbin and thread her machine. And we did some simple sewing, just to make sure that everything was working. We sat in the living room and she pushed the foot pedal with her hand... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also let her raid my remnant stash for pieces big enough to practice on and to make throw pillows. Happily for me, she ended up taking about half of the stash - which consists of pieces that are big enough that I can't throw them away without feeling guilty, but small enough that I am unlikely to ever use them myself. So, it was a win-win! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another little thing that makes me feel like this is going to work for her - I explained that she needed to tear the fiber fill into little pieces to stuff the pillow - not just cram in big chunks - and she really did a good job! She was very patient and spent a lot of time stuffing her pillow. I think that's pretty impressive for a 10-year-old, don't you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of which, I sent her home with enough fiber fill to make pillows for just about everyone in her life! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, her mom is now all excited, thinking that Mariana can start sewing her own tailored school pants, because they are expensive to buy. Yikes! Apparently some expectation management is called for on my part... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It probably sounds like a great present for her. But if she really gets into sewing and I end up with a sewing friend, it will be a present for me! :) </span></div>
Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-27244813361592753362015-01-08T06:00:00.000-08:002015-01-08T06:00:00.954-08:00In Loving Memory...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-3219820936362177612015-01-06T06:00:00.000-08:002015-01-06T06:00:00.712-08:00A Flipped Life<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Everyone knows the stages of life - you grow up, get a job, get married, raise your family, your children grow up and move out on their own, and you and your spouse spend the rest of your lives focusing on each other and spoiling your grandchildren. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, it looks like we are about to flip our lives upside-down. In more ways than one! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My husband and I have been married for 32 years. We didn't have children and we've spent those 32 years focusing on each other and our careers and hobbies. And we have been very happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now, in our early-to-mid-fifties, we are beginning the process to qualify as adoptive parents with the state of Florida. If we successfully complete this process, a year from now (or so) a teenager may be calling us "Mom and Dad." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Daring adventure - here we come! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">P.S. - is "daring" another word for crazy? </span></div>
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-36703708133628022302015-01-05T06:00:00.000-08:002015-01-05T06:00:00.537-08:00It's a Flipped Thing<div style="text-align: center;">
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Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12953347562329586677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878030418218630654.post-14316644871135157702014-12-24T06:00:00.000-08:002014-12-24T06:00:00.698-08:00Wherein I Gain a New Appreciation for the Length of 47 Inches... <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I order 2 and 3 yard cuts of fabric all the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never think twice about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It doesn't seem like much at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, setting a goal of weaving four panels, each 47 inches long, didn't seem like much of a challenge at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Heck, 47 inches isn't even a full 1.5 yards! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then I started weaving...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... and weaving ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... and weaving ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it turns out that 47 inches, when you are weaving, is very, very, long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In fact, it is about THIS long: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, that is right - I have finally finished the first of the four bands that I plan to weave! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can I get a "Hallelujah!" ? ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just three more to go! ;)</span></div>
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