Lady Jane's Garden

Since this three-day cycle included a whole week-end, I thought perhaps I should do some finishing.  This project was taught by Jackie du Plessis through Shining Needle. The parts have been stitched for months.  Many months. Sooooooooo many months.

And everything fits into the Shaker basket.

As usual, I learned something while doing this:

• I love toys, especially stitching toys.
• I hate finishing.
• If I'm going to have toys, I have to put them together.
• I better get over my dislike of finishing.
• If I think I'm doing something wrong, stop.
• If I don't stop, at least don't do anything permanent.
• If I do something permanent, don't try to take it apart since it will make things worse.
• Accept the fact that it isn't going to be perfect and move on.
• My sewing machine is definitely dying.
• The more finishing I do, the better I'm getting at it, although I have a long way to go.
• I still hate finishing.

So that was the week-end. The one time I was out of the house was when I took four pairs of pants to the local dressmaker to hem. Ironic, huh.