What Do You Do When You Can't Sew?

Most weeks, I spend my free time sewing.  Not this week.  This week, I had other commitments.  The sewing machines barely got warmed up.  The spirit was willing, but the time was just not there.

What do you do when this happens to you?

I just tried to make the best of it.
Most of my time is spent babysitting my Little Buddy, the most adorable 3 year old in the world.  There are many fun things we can do together, like taking pictures of Canadian geese in the park.

We've also been picking green beans and tomatoes in our little garden.  We missed a few beans, that will now only be good for seed for next year, but we've had quite a few for dinner.

I've found a little time to put up some of the fall quilts in the dining room.

I made this one in 1988, after we took a family trip out west. 

Our youngest daughter, who was 4 years old then,  loved the little Native American-made dolls sold in the souvenir shops.  The alternate block replicates a design on a book about Native American textiles that I bought on that trip.  The colors are right for fall decorating.

These little quilts are for Jack's Basket.  There are 13 of them!  The ladies in our quilt group made them (I made one a few weeks ago).  I'm getting ready to mail them out this week.  They are all different, and all amazing.  Little Buddy helped me lay them out and take pictures.

I'm often too tired to sew in the evenings after supper, but I can definitely sit and knit.  I'm making a baby sweater as a shower gift for a friend of my daughter's.

Now here we are, finally at the weekend.  I will have time to sew now, and here's what I'm going to work on first--putting the binding on this donation quilt.

I made this top awhile back, (for details click HERE) and handed it in to the wonderful ladies on the charity committee to be quilted.  Didn't they do a nice job?  Now it's back to me, to be bound.  What do you think of the fabric I've chosen?  In person, it's sort of purple.  It goes okay with the top...

and the back!  Check out these fabulous pink pigs!  And they're flannel!

I'm glad these no-sewing weeks don't come along very often, but when they do, I know eventually I'll have time again to work on my favorite hobby.

This week, I'm hoping you'll have time to do what you really love to do.
Cheers,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches

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