Old and New

Yesterday was unexpectantly spent sitting in a waiting room for a long period of time. Fortunately I had prepared a few little quilt patches to piece together by hand should this kind of thing pop up. I had just enough time to grab them along with my snippy little Fiskars and my favorite silver thimble and stick them in a baggie in my coat pocket. It is a Double Wedding Ring quilt that I have been working at for a very long time, but probably will not get finished any time soon. I'm making myself stick to these rules about it: 1. it will be entirely sewn by hand, and 2. all old fabrics and threads will be used. Here is what I actually accomplished yesterday. One completed "football" and several other arcs. I am probably going to have to go sit some more this afternoon, so this morning I pinned the arcs to the white centers, and made a little flannel pin holder. Yesterday I only had a piece of paper to stick my pins in, and it didn't look so nice. Also, my wonderfully pointy scissors kept poking through the plastic bag. So I took a piece of ivory colored leather and sewed a little sheath for them. Don't they look happier? The post office also called this morning. An EMS package was there. I knew what it was because I had ordered some fabric from Japan. It is my first purchase from Fabric Tales, and certainly will not be my last. This stuff is gorgeous! And they even added a sample piece of fabric tape, which I am sure I will think of getting the next time I put in an order.