I’m not doing anything very interesting around here unless you think painting white over off white is interesting. It’s not.
I am being kept entertained listening to Lonesome Dove. It might be my only finish for them month because it’s so long, but it’s worth every second and I expect I’ll be sorry for it to end.
I did divert myself into going through a bin that was high up on a shelf in my sewing room. I knew it had some photos in it that I wanted to add to my sewing room digital frame but I forgot what else was in there. The fact that I couldn’t remember what was in there will explain why it’s all going in the trash but it was fun to look at for a few minutes.
Before I became a quilter sometime around 1995, I was solely a garment maker. I made almost all of the suits that I wore to work. I made my wedding dress and the dress my Mom wore to my wedding. Fun fact, the fabric I bought for her dress was more expensive than the fabric I bought for my dress. Another fun fact, I made those dresses on a sewing machine (Pfaff 1441) that I convinced Chris to buy me instead of an engagement ring.
Anyway, I’ve always been a record keeper and I kept records of all the garment fabrics that I bought and what I made with them.
Each of these 250+ cards represents a fabric and one or more garments. I know where and when I bought the fabric, pattern notes and when the garment was made. When I wanted to make another suit “like the purple one” I could find my notes here. I don’t have photos of any of those garments but I remember some of my favorites.
This suit had a red skirt.
This purple one is one that I wore a lot.
And this wild one was another favorite and I had shoes that matched perfectly. I must have looked like a clown to other people but I thought I looked powerful! LOL!
Also in the box were these claendars.
They start in 1992 and go through 2006. I recorded whatever creative thing that I did every day. 2006 was the last year because I started my blog in 2006, 20 years ago this month! I have had 2 blogs before this one and both of those are gone. The forest was on Typepad and the second on Weebly so I’ve lots almost 20 years of my creative diary, except for the photos and that’s the most important part.
These diaries aren’t very interesting except that I can see what kind of things I focused on in any give year. In 1997, I was working for Bank of America and managing a huge credit card conversion. There were a lot of completely empty creative weeks back then.
We all have those periods. I had it again in 2002 – 2003 when I was working on another conversion and traveling a lot to London and California. But I had handwork that I could do in the hotel and on the plane then.
1991 was a great creative year for me and I was even doing some hand knitting back then.
In 1999, I was kind of obsessed with making the beaded ornaments and I still had my knitting machine going..
Also, my handwriting was much better then than now!
It was a fun walk down memory lane but I will stick with my digital photos for keeping my memories going forward. They don’t attract dust! All of this stull can be relegated to the landfill.
Today I’m hosting another longarm lesson and doing a little bit of dyeing for a baby quilt idea. I should also make some progress on binding the Monty quilt.
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