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Found a bag that wasn't packed yet! Just a simple Brown Bag type bag - uses a fat quarter for outside and a fat quarter for lining.

Of course if you don't want to be limited to the fat quarter fabric, you can make it any size. I would like mine deeper, but this works for lunches.

This particular bag was two fabrics fused - all over strawberries, cut like for a pie, and the pie crust. I had to cut the pie crust openings, but liked the effect.

Last day - and I am sitting in an empty (but for the computer) living room - still have 3 mainly storage (junk) closets to clean out, and then clean the apartment and be DONE - for 2 weeks anyway, till we pick it all up again and move to the house. WILL have movers. I about killed myself this weekend with all the heavy lifting. One of the guys I had hired to help with heavies had to work instead so I was the back end of the heavy couch and oak bookshelves.

So great to be this far along, and even greater when this place is clean - and I get my deposit back!

hugs - lainy

Taking time to rest: I saw how Carol McFee makes cording on her sewing machine! Very interesting! It is in the January posts on her site - which you will find a link to on the right side of this page below.

Just checking in before the panic of the last weekend before vacating the apartment - to move two doors down, for two weeks - then on May 15, to the house.

Check out the links on my website. They are the BEST!!!

hugs, Lainy

The boat

The finished boat is the "Snipe" my cousin Ted Ryder built for a friend of his. The other detail photos are the 28' motor yacht he is currently working on. I love the name "Snipe" - makes me think of the Snipe Hunting trips of our youth. Not that I ever went "snipe hunting." So in spite of packing, and sore muscles - it was a fun time on the internet, during rest periods. I am so fortunate to have such wonderful, and talented family members.

We all grew up together, went to the same 3 room school for 8 years - but as adults scatttered throughout the U.S.

More of that for another day.....

Moving

Hello all! Won't be doing much else but packing and moving for the next couple of weeks, with time off to sew a bit, and knit a bit. Hey, everyone has to rest sometimes! Am excited about finishing a new lining for a lovely lace skirt for a friend. Really interesting pattern. But girls, if your skirt is a little snug - your lining will pull out at the seams. Almost all linings are made from silky fabrics, with very smooth fibers, that will slip right out of the stitching. You've heard the saying "A stitch in time saves nine." If you have the stitching re-enforced before the fabric shreds, it will save having to make a whole new lining. Even then, snugness is not good for the lining - perhaps a piece or two can be inserted before the shredding to give a little more room for the "give" that needs to happen during sitting, getting in and out of cars, etc. Also I can't stress enough the value of a good foundation garment. You wouldn't think of not giving the upper torso support with a good bra, would you? How about the lower torso? OK 'nuff said.

Moving to a new house!!

This is the new address for Peggy, Stewart and me!

Now, I'm off to get more boxes to pack up!

Fair Isle Hat

To those who have asked about the source of the pattern for my first hat in Fair Isle knitting - The book "Hats On!" by Charlene Schurch. Available on Amazon.com for about $13.00 in paperback. A superb book.

In the last few rows of the mid section of the hat, I made a mistake! Too bad it's the part that shows.