H A N D

This little runner is not home made. It came from Gooseberry Patch, on sale, of course. It was buttonless. I thought it would look cuter if it had buttons on all the yo-yo's. Trust me, it is way cuter and you would know that for sure had I remembered to take a picture pre buttons. There were 48 buttons to sew on. It was lots of fun to pick them out but sewing that many buttons on by H A N D was not so much fun.

This is the first wool applique item I have made. It didn't occur to me to start small so it took me quite a while to finish it. Now after I just made such a fuss about sewing buttons on by H A N D you must think I am crazy to have done this which was also done by H A N D. But this was actually fun. Now I have to finish it as something. It is sitting on some homespun I was auditioning thinking I would make a pillow for the bench in my entry. But the wool piece seems way too heavy for just homespun. I think it needs something that is home dec weight so I will need to go hunting.

I see I should have done a bit of cleaning up before I took the picture -- look at that little white paper punched out dot on the background. I have been sorting pictures and tutorials from magazines and web sites and punching them to put into binders. The dots get everywhere, don't they?

When I was a kid I collected those little dots. Yeah, I know, but I was an only child who moved a lot. Just about everything in our house that could be punched had little holes in it from my trusty hole punch and I had jars and jars of dots. I loved to play with them until one day my mom got tired of vacuuming up the strays and out they went. I still have a hard time emptying the punch into the trash. It seems so sad to throw them all away...