toil, toil, toil
I've been slowly making it through my current longterm projects - a couple of little baby quilts and fifteen small modified umbrellas - and punctuating my time with needlefelting some ham ornaments.
I'm going away for the whole week of Thanksgiving, so I won't be able to use my machine or other things in my home studio. The umbrella project is a little more dire, so I got all the dyeing and machine sewing out of the way. Here's the stack.
They don't need to be perfect. They just have to work when I'm finished! The marked up muslin will be covered, so it doesn't matter what it looks like now.
The next step is to slide icky steel binding wire into the four channels on each umbrella, and then handstitch the wires down. At this point I've finished inserting all the wires, but the sewing part takes forrreeevvverrrr (as you may imagine!), so I will be taking them on my trip. I doubt I'll have much time to work on them, but anything at all would be helpful.