Last-minute Christmas projects, after yesterday's cookie-baking and caramel popcorn: a book weight with a rock in one end and beans in the other; a sewing kit; individual quotations cut out of an unreadable gift book and laminated; a piece of fabric laminated; an upholstery fabric remnant sewn into a tote bag; a broken necklace that I double-restrung.
For the sewing kit, I took a small, ugly basket and covered it with fabric, gathering it at the inside bottom and stitching through the fabric and basket under the rim. It was quick to put together, although I think the gathers will tend to collect dust and odds and ends over time.
Recently we were given an elderly woman's extensive stash of braided rug materials and tools. I've made a good start on a braided rug, and I plan to work straight through my share of the rolled strips, so I don't need to find storage space for them. It will be a series of smaller rugs. There's also a bin of uncut fabric, which I will probably use in clothing projects.
Eldest child has reported difficulty in distinguishing the woolens from the synthetics, even with burn testing. Perhaps some of the fabrics are blends.
Some of the fabrics were rather musty, so I washed them and hung them out in the back yard--including throwing long, unrolled strips of fabric up into the trees. For some reason my husband doesn't approve of the look. The red strips look festive, the gray and tan ones not so much.
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