tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38839323184750380802024-03-13T05:21:20.822-04:00The Works of Our HandsMusings of a homeschooling-seamstress mom...meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-17680364508276969562014-06-06T18:15:00.000-04:002014-06-06T18:15:00.536-04:00There was no post in May~
I guess I was too busy for blogs in May. I started work on Shakespeare.
I made this for the front garden:
I made this for a production of Beauty and the Beast:
We took these guys to an amusement park...
...and to Boston to meet the great grandparents:
meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-61893148724459476572014-04-13T19:28:00.000-04:002014-04-13T19:28:02.929-04:00April BOM Well, if I'm down to one post a month, it can only mean it's show time. And it has been. "Next to Normal" opened and had a very successful run. I was helping backstage and Philip and Jacie were stagehands-- Jacie was actually named Assistant Stage Manager! I never got tired of hearing those wonderful voices, which is unusual because even my most beloved shows can wear on me night meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-83994895838020962362014-03-06T14:37:00.001-05:002014-03-06T14:37:19.648-05:00March BOMQuilt Doodles BOM March Block:
I changed it up a bit as I did last month by using all 2 1/2" squares instead of the cream colored strip. I also added a little cardinal because it's a tree, in snow and I'm in Virginia. It's practically illegal to have a snowy tree without a cardinal in Virginia. Even when you live on the beach~y side.meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-13806242781991117662014-03-04T12:16:00.001-05:002014-03-04T12:16:07.591-05:00A disappointing DaGMT~ Getting twenty minutes of sewing a day wasn't the problem. Except for days that were eaten up by grandchildren (which I will never apologize for) and days when I wasn't in the geographical location of my sewing machine (North Carolina Christian youth conference chaperone...I made hexies in the car for well over my twenty minutes!) I was sewing, well, something. I just didn't work on meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-48425307400523399622014-02-14T07:59:00.000-05:002014-02-14T07:59:05.471-05:00DaGMT 1/2 way~
So...halfway through the month. Not doing well on the finishes.
I'm getting my sewing time in, for the most part, but I'm working on different stuff than the quilts.
Days that grandbabies come to cuddle are not conducive to scheduled sewing. But I welcome them. Also, the community college decided it would do a show this spring (Halleluia! A paycheck!) The good news is-- Jacie was cast in the meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-17449218173092096212014-02-04T08:42:00.000-05:002014-02-04T08:42:34.475-05:00Day3~ DaGMT MathEasy math for Monday~ Sitting in the car and waiting for 2(1/2 hour music lessons) - 1(run into grocery for peppers and onions) = 16 hexies in about 40 minutes. Oh, and watching ducks swim in the rain.
meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-7497162361992219082014-02-03T10:16:00.001-05:002014-02-04T08:43:12.193-05:00The First February Finish~ I'll start off by going on the record saying I know how fortunate I am that I have the time to dedicate to the sewing I do. My work is part time and my kids are of the age that I don't have to hover over them while they're doing schoolwork. Or supposed to be doing schoolwork. I do have to do that kind of hovering. But my twenty minutes a day pledge can easily become hours, especiallymeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-66074427494110213902014-01-30T16:12:00.000-05:002014-02-04T08:43:51.995-05:00February means DaGMT While I was doing my after Christmas straightening, I took notes as I organized and actually made a chart of what I had started, what I had waiting, what I had bought certain fabrics for.
Don't worry if you can't read it. Sometimes I don't even know what I'm talking about.
All~ well, a lot~ of the plans meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-32230022499978156412014-01-29T08:15:00.000-05:002014-01-29T08:15:39.174-05:00Hey! I actually finished something~ Don't faint~~ it's not a costume job either. I have to finish those or actors are naked. No, I did some re-arranging and re-ordering and when I looked at my nice, clean area, I had to sit and sew something. So, on the top of the pile were these panels from a pattern I tested last spring:
(Read about them here.)
I had added the borders meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-26638018792941989752014-01-16T08:22:00.001-05:002014-01-16T08:22:28.145-05:00*giggle* BOM *giggle* Time!I'm not sure why the quilter's acronym "BOM" makes me giggle but it does. Why, after all these years, do I still have to stop and think about what it means? Maybe there was something else it meant back in my Navy days that has left my cognitive memory but there's still a reaction. I don't know, but I do know the only BOM I have ever participated in was "Bottled Rainbows" and while the quilt is meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-43609437696837015352013-11-29T08:38:00.001-05:002013-11-29T08:38:51.224-05:00Happy Whatever-You-Celebrate!The marathon is over. Since spring I have costumed 7 shows (Scapin, Avenue Q, Midsummer, Rent, 9-5, Proof, Parade) and performed in one of them. I finished the top for "Scrap Vomit" and managed to complete some small stuff. Every time a show opened and I thought life would slow for a bit and I could have some good 'me' time, it didn't happen. I may have broken a toe a few weeks meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-91490277847562249672013-10-21T16:11:00.003-04:002013-10-21T16:30:59.368-04:00The September post~No pictures yet from Shakespeare, Rent or 9-5 but... my sister was quick to send one of the her in the dress I made for her first appearance with a group of madrigal singers. She sent a picture of the style she liked and picked out her fabrics. I looked her picture and made this. I never did get her measurements. Oh, yeah, she's in Massachusetts; I'm in Virginny. Next time I'll hem it a little meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-3606345066978133082013-10-21T16:05:00.000-04:002013-10-21T16:13:34.092-04:00We'll just forget about September~It seems one post a month isn't just for the summer~ it seems it's going to be the fall norm too. Except we'll just forget about September. It was an incredibly busy month which saw 2 significant things in my little world. One was the return to the front side of the curtain as I played "Margaret" in "9-5" for 13 performances (four weekends!); the other being I turned 52 on opening day. It meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-44365134312841618592013-08-26T09:42:00.001-04:002013-08-26T09:42:10.712-04:00Continuing the 'one post a month' summer~ August is almost over so I'll sneak in one post to finish out this nutty summer. No pictures yet from "Midsummer" but I did snag one group shot from "Rent":
I 'meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-34516305130601852362013-07-24T21:52:00.000-04:002013-07-24T21:52:26.090-04:00One post a month?It must be summer!
Okay, quick recap since June~ "Midsummer" was a terrific success. Couldn't be prouder of Jacie in her first 'big' Shakespeare role! The costumes were as close to my vision as I ever could get and stay in budget. Very happy! Waiting for pictures to share.
"Rent" was much more frustrating to costume than it should have been. The theater suffers from a serious lack of meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-68493922281554443712013-06-15T19:50:00.000-04:002013-06-15T19:50:08.974-04:00Crummy week. Yeah. Just a couple of horrible costuming days. I'm working two shows- "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Rent". Just frustrating when some things don't need to be. But I'll look to the happy~ celebrating my Dad, an amazing and loving man who taught me what a real dad is and what to look for in a father for my children; and my husband of 28 years. Wonderful fathers, wonderful men. I am blessedmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-51295707042966460112013-05-16T10:22:00.002-04:002013-05-16T10:22:43.071-04:00At least one post in May~ Just one, probably, because I'm busy as the bees and blogging while busy is not a priority. There's been mostly theatre work but I squeaked in a bit of piecework. I had the pleasure of testing another pattern for Cindy of Quilt Doodle Doodles. On the first warm afternoon here in SE Virginny I found myself childless for the day. Some may consider that a great time to do housework meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-23227751469349923042013-03-13T18:09:00.001-04:002013-03-13T18:09:46.057-04:00Not dead; just not quilting
I'm not posting; it must be showtime! In fact, I'm booked up for the spring/summer season.
Scapin (opens 21 March)
Avenue Q (opens May 17)
Shakespeare in the Grove ( June 19?)
Rent (opens July 12)
Usually there's a week of camp (Solid Foundations) in there but I'm not sure about that this year. The dean of that week is gone and there has been talk of replacing it with something new. meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-45284185351760258692013-03-01T10:19:00.001-05:002013-03-01T10:19:38.818-05:00The End....of DaGMT 2013, anyway.
The results:
~One UFO finished and delivered~A basket full of packs for a scrap vomit quilt emptied for 15 total blocks complete~a doll quilt made and mailed~a few random blocks for swaps~lots of fun, triangular shaped blocks called "Taking Names~one "Star Wars" pillowcase son #2 has been begging for for three months since we bought the fabric~One housework-free day meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-1004175605923446852013-02-26T18:32:00.000-05:002013-02-26T18:32:02.007-05:00Continuing on...The Month of DaGMT continues~
I learned today that a kind, wonderful man I have worked with in community theater lost his wife this week to ovarian cancer. They have two small children (4 & 1) and this news is just so devastating. If you're the praying sort, please lift this family up.
I have sewn every day except Sundays and last Saturday when I spent the day at the meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-23790402834518938612013-02-14T16:07:00.001-05:002013-02-14T16:16:40.946-05:00A UFO done~DaGMT Progress
Tuesday, Wednesday/ Feb. 12 & 13
&meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-60223193303108601052013-02-11T09:17:00.000-05:002013-02-11T09:18:56.816-05:00DaGMT Progress
meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-12615318161585050272013-02-11T09:12:00.001-05:002013-02-11T09:17:59.689-05:00Five, Six ~ Pick Up Sticks... and Picks... and SocksDaGMT Progress
meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-55930644234660577622013-02-05T12:38:00.000-05:002013-02-11T09:18:31.769-05:00Three, four, shut the door! It's freezing in here!DaGMT progress Day 3
None, unless you count digging out a few FQs for a potential need. But it wasn't for lack of trying; it was for lack of electricity. See, I have an old house. Creaky old. It's almost one hundred and some parts really show it, particularly the electricity. Some of the house, like the upstairs overhead lights and a few outlets, are very old wiring and connected to each meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883932318475038080.post-31837083681344720492013-02-02T10:53:00.000-05:002013-02-02T10:53:51.971-05:00...and they're off! Yesterday was February first, the official start day of Drop and Give Me Twenty 2013. I made my 30 minute quota easily since I had to finish a few blocks for an online block swap. The pattern required was "Card Tricks" and they might be the most challenging block I've ever done. It's not particularly hard to put together-- it's all straight sewing-- but I had a dickens of a time with 'meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726595648359723704noreply@blogger.com6