For over ten years, we’ve been having our laundry done in the community laundry room by our housekeeper/helper Ann. Now that I have recovered, I can do the laundry myself, but I sure don’t want to spend time in the laundry room. So we’ve had a washer/dryer installed in our walk-in closet. Where we had [...]
Archive for June, 2009
A laundry-independent woman
Posted in Charlestown, Personal on June 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Noah comes to visit Gram
Posted in Stitching, family, hand embroidery on June 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday my son Pete brought four-year-old Noah to visit. Surely you remember his blonde curls.
The handmade wooden wagon and blocks I’d had in wait were an instant success with him. (Does he have any other non-plastic toys?)
He found lots of different ways of arranging the blocks to show either animals, letters, numbers, or the same [...]
Treasure Sale
Posted in Charlestown, Personal, clothes on June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here at Charlestown residents donate items they no longer want to the Treasure Sale, which was started by a few residents who organized a lawn sale when Charlestown was new. That lawn sale grew into a major endeavor that generates hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Benevolent Care Fund, that provides for residents who [...]
Contemporary crochet
Posted in Toni, friends on June 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It’s been a while since I last wrote about my dear friend Toni. Like me, she has been housebound by ME/CFS for many years. And like me, she has found needlework to be an occupation, a comfort, and a joy. Although she’s done embroidery in the past, including beautiful silk ribbon work, since she’s been [...]
Is this crazy patchwork?
Posted in Personal, Projects and processes, Recovery improvisation, crazy patchwork, hand embroidery, recovery on June 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
For a couple of years, I think, I’ve had pinned to my portable design board behind my door these swatches of silks over a piece of silk chiffon scarf, along with some novelty yarns and ribbons, intending some day to do something with them. There was always something else to do. On May 24th I [...]
Gift of Crochet
Posted in crochet, gifts on June 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You remember June, don’t you?
She showed me how to thread my sewing machine, and later she showed me some of her smocking. Well, then she gave me a bit of crochet work done by her grandmother-in-law.
It’s not hard for me to think of some uses for these medallions, used separately—painted? beaded? of course incorporated into [...]
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