hat day

A full rewarding day and lots of down time. I made a hat for Sam, actually a balaclava, with Lightning McQueen on it, which was a big hit after yesterday's failure (too tight). Daniel's favourite hat had a monster face on it but it was way too small, so I made him a balaclava and transfered the monster face to it. Also a big hit. I also lined D's, S's and Danny's santa hats with fleece, cause they were just not warm enough. During all of this hat repair, I lost my pin cushion that is special to me as Mom made it for me. I sorted all my fabric, cleaned out the sewing table and the sewing box, re-organized it all and still didn't find the pin cushion until after I had everything put away and was ready to quit! What a relief to finally find it though! I also picked up a new (read used) sewing chair at the restore and recovered it, twice actually and I might still go back to buy the second one that was the same, so I can do it again with all the trials and errors already under my belt. It has great castors, good support and is comfortable! I finished Grace's sheets last week and hope to get them to her tomorrow. I have my rag quilt half together and may finish it tomorrow too. I'm also going back to Starky's with some of the gang tomorrow, so hope to get some ideas for hats for the other kids too. Love (and a hat) is all we need, elly "Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there." James Collins "And all your future lies beneath your hat." John Oldham