Thursday, October 8, 2009

What I'm sewing . . .


Actually, these days I'm not sewing anything. My machine is in the shop -- been breaking many needles lately. Here's a picture of a "work in progress." I'm embroidering flowers on all my cloth baskets that I use to store stuff in my sewing room. I have completed some of them -- each sew out takes about 90 minutes -- so I need to have a large block of time. I'm working on them as I can get to them. I was inspired by a picture in an embroidery magazine -- before seeing it, I didn't realize those covers came off. They are all "velcroed" on. Who knew!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

What I'm reading . . .


I'm currently reading a book called "The Beautiful Miscellaneous" by Dominic Smith. About a kid who gets a head injury and becomes a savant -- he can memorize anything. The condition he has is called synesthesia. One of the reasons I like it is because of his genius father, who wants so much for his son to also be a genius. It adds a lot of humor to the books.