It has been a while, huh? I had another terrible winter, spending both Christmas and New Years Day in the hospital with pneumonia. It really knocked me down...it was April before I was off the couch for any meaningful part of the day. The worst part was the dragging dullness of my mind and my life. I did nothing and had nothing to say for months on end. It was the latest backhand from fate, which I have handled less than gracefully. Now, however, I am recovering my energy and my interest in life and have returned (sort of) to some of the things I was working on when last I posted.
One of my projects last fall was turning my stash of brown linen into a couple of under cloths for my own table. I had a couple of lengths of different weight linen in the same color. Of course, if I used the longest piece for my expanded table, I didn't have enough for a smaller one as well. I ended up adding a border to my remnant fabric to make it big enough, but I had to piece the border out of lighter weight linen to make it stretch. It was sort of a dull project whose corners I had pinned but not sewn when stricken. It sat wadded up on my sewing table for six months, but has finally been completed.
Remember the new brown plates? My first move after acquiring them was to go on-line shopping for likely fabrics that would work well with them. It seems like I scrolled through thousands of prints before I found a couple I liked. (I'm not too enthusiastic about shopping on-line.) They were expensive, but so is everything nowadays. When they came I wash tested them and then they, too, sat forgotten for many months. I made them into squares and had to bind off the edges because they are pretty heavy and just turning the hems would have been bulky. I made the binding myself out of linen for one, but used purchased bias tape for the other. Again, kind of dull as a sewing assignment, and rife with wobbles and clunky mitering, but also now finished. I have a vocabulary of textiles to use with my dishes, should I ever have the energy to entertain again. I hope that will be soon.