Piece by Piece

Today was a busy errand day. After seeing the oven mitts I made for Carmit, Inbal and Rotem both requested a pair. Inbal, however, asked for a colour combination I didn't have in my stash. So against my no more stash rule, we went to Fabricland at Doncaster and I purchased several greens to go with the reds in my stash. And I have a few black and whites which will balance our the green and red, I hope. Rotem is happy with stuff from my stash.
We also popped into Cayne's to buy Rotem a microplane. They were out. So we went to Yorkdale. Actually, first we went to my mother's to say hello. Then we went to Yorkdale and bought Rotem a book at Chapter's and the microplane at Williams Sonoma (I'm not even sure that's the name of the store -- last of the power shoppers here...)
And home, to wash the new fabrics (so they don't run and shrink after sewing). In recycling mode, I sewed together all of my batting strips from previous projects and have enough for three sets of oven mitts -- Inbal's, Rotem's and one more which I will make and then decide for whom. The mitts are actually a good idea for using up scraps from quilt projects.

So now I'm waiting for the fabrics to dry and tomorrow I will start and hopefully finish the mitts. I bought netting for a teddy bear hammock for Inbal and will hopefully figure out how to make it and then make it tomorrow.

I started this week on the mezuzah but don't like the results so I'm scrapping that one and will design another. I also started putting hanging corners on one of my smaller pieces but putting the corners on after the piece is finished is the pits. The corners kept getting caught in the sewing machine plate so I'm going to have to rethink that one as well. Life doesn't always flow smoothly.

And I know I said I was going to work on Marty's tie quilt (and I will) but I have an itch to make another small piece, similar to my father's kippah and tie piece, using browns and gold and textures. Perhaps it will turn into a series...

OK. It's Saturday afternoon and the movies I like (chick flicks) usually start at 4 so I'm off.