indigo 1.5 yards

1.5 yards of indigo fabric makes two pillowcases They needed a freshening up - so this was a nice project for today. Esme clowning around because I have the camera, and now she is outside stomping around on the porch and trying to help Daddy with yardwork.

Unplanned, but they go quite well with the yellow pillow.  

A little fabric marking tag to show which one of them goes on the bigger pillow.   Yesterday I did some repair work on some upholstered furniture for someone - cutting and sewing patches from extra fabric to repair tears and holes.  That used a lot of pattern matching and color sense, and they could barely see the difference after it was repaired in several places.  Not a bad job to take on - and it helped them out.  Sewing this little applique on is nothing compared to appliqueing velvet upholstery canvas around covered buttons and trying to follow the curve of a sofa arm!    Esme said we needed to cook something in the oven with all the ingredients - not fish sticks, they don't have ingredients.  So, we made a carrot cake into cupcakes.  We'll see how it turns out as the mix was one Grandma had given us a good while back.     I did the laundry and handed Esme each of her things to describe, and she got it all right until she got to her sheet.  She said 'what's that - I don't hear that word - is shaped like blanket, what is not?'  So I had to explain what sheets were again... and we went and put everything in her room.  I found out how all the socks end up back in the hamper each time.  As she puts all of her clothes up on her dresser she knocks them off the top of the pile instead of putting them in the sock pouch on the wall -- and she didn't even notice until I asked her where the socks went... and then she picked them all up back into the pouch.  Hmm...  She dropped a cookie on the floor downstairs the other day and put her foot over it so I wouldn't see she had dropped it.  She is getting some bad ideas, there! Lots of other little projects going on - a patchwork 'lone star' type diamond thing I am working on, still the bed size afghan (made quite a bit of progress on that), a journal I covered with a pretty wallpaper sample, some dishcloths for a coworker's wife... I have no shortage of things to do.