Here is what is left to do

As you can see, lots of boxes and lots of fabric and supplies are all over my sewing room. Biggest mess is on top of that table where I work on projects. Like I said, it is nearest to the door which makes it a dumping ground. All the fabric on the table is 100% cotton; the fabric behind the door is 100% Pendleton wool mill ends. I use it, the wool, to make rugs and other such things. This isn't stripped yet because I have about ten boxes of wool (the size of the green and blue totes in this picture) stored in my garage that is all ready to make a rug. For those who are waiting for the rest of the rug tutorial, the next installment or two will be on Saturday. I hope you have all your fabric washed and stripped, ready to sew and braid. If you click on the picture, it will take you to flickr where there are all kinds of notes on this picture.

Progress on Studio

I have the studio about 3/4 ths of the way straight. Too bad the last 1/4 is the worst part because that is my table where I work on most projects. It is also the closest to the door, meaning the easiest to dump things on, too. The sewing table, kids art area, and the light table are pretty much straitened up. The room is about 12 feet by 23 feet, so it is actually a pretty good-size room. Too bad the ceilings are pitched, or I could stack my boxes taller and have more floor space; oh well, better than what it was in the last house. The rug on the floor in this room used to be in the front room at my old house, now it is in my sewing room. Less traffic and less likely to get mud on it now, which is good because I don't think I will make another that big in the near future.

Some of Todays floral

Normally when I do funerals for people who are young, they make me sad. This set of floral is for a twenty-year-old woman. Her mother just happened to come into my shop while I was making these. The young lady in question had an aunt who was a florist. This Aunt was making floral arrangements at home to take to the funeral, and they needed floralife, a floral preservative food. After she told me they where making florals for her deceased daughter I asked what her daughters name was. After she told me, I got to tell her I had four arrangements for her daughter, too.

I was told about this remarkable young lady who had Downs Syndrome and who loved the world, and from what I can tell from the funeral cards I had to write, the world loved her too. Her mom was all excited to see what I had made and asked if it was ok. After I showed her, she said her daughter would be so happy with those, and she herself was excited. This made me feel good because usually we just have the delivery driver take them to the mortuary and we only hear about complaints, not the happy side. After having done so many children and young-adult funerals lately, this was a very nice change for the day.

Two of these are 50 dollar arrangements and one is 40 dollars and the pink one is 95 dollars.

Studio Room

My life has been so busy lately that my studio has become a dumping ground for half-done projects instead of a workable room. I have been working on getting it back into shape. See the vacuum in the back of the photo. I have lots of projects I have to get done right now, like my tutorial on making a rug and finishing that afghan repair; both need lots of room and the room is big but not when it is messy. It may not look like it from this photo, but it is an improvement. All those boxes you see are full of fabric, thread, lace, ribbon and so on. This is, of course, only half of the room; the other half I am still working on straightening.