Mood:
happyNow Playing: "Happy Feet" - Dearest Son's RedBox choice this evening.
Today was Son's EEG. Went well, as far as anyone can tell - it'll be a few days before it's analyzed, so I'm not counting on hearing anything ‘til after Labor Day. Hardest part was keeping him still for 22 minutes in a row. If he moved too much, we had to start all over. Luckily, Son was patient and fairly relaxed today. Well, as relaxed and patient as a kid his age could be ! Dropped him off at school, and more teachers wanted to hear the tale. Again, it was like a very kind and thoughtful tea party. And I thought I'd like the school because of the bus !
Beloved Hubby was working out of the Shop today, so I didn't get much doll time. I'd rather spend available hours with him ! But he had to work, so I cheap-serged new fabric - the Mal-Wart sackload I got from this weekend's yard sale. Worked on it for an hour and a half, and used up the last of my second-to-last wooden-spool thread. Shortly after I started sewing, I found a great flea market, and scored a huge basket of sewing notions. Including at least a dozen wooden spools of thread. I think it was 20 or so, now that I try to remember.
Conventional wisdom says to toss it out. It's too old to be dependable, possibly half rotted, and modern thread is more durable and reliable. I had one visitor remark how charming my wood spool display was...it was on my ‘working thread' storage rack, above the sewing machine. I found it to be quite beautiful, with a deep shine and lovely colors. It was certainly good enough to practice sewing with ! And since I mostly make doll clothes, it was no big deal if the thread gave way. I'd have a nude doll, not a nude me !
And when I got tired of untangling masses of threads from washed fabrics - which was after I tumbled on to the idea that washing brand-new material before sewing it was a good idea - it was ideal for my ‘cheap serging' idea. Which is basically zig-zagging the raw edges, so it doesn't fray in the washer and dryer. Since '02, I've used nearly all of this ‘unusable' thread, both for practice and for cheap serging, and I've yet to have any of it fall apart or show the first signs of rot. Even saved the spools and gave them to the Center that Son got some therapy from - his therapist said they made great gross-motor tools and came in handy for ‘what's different/what's the same' games, since there were about five identical ones in the lot, and more that weren't.
So now I'm down to the last one. A deep pinkish red. It shows up great on serges ! I'm hoping to have some time tomorrow to finish the rest of the fabrics. And write some letters, starting with Erika's, she's waaaaay overdue one ! :) Thanks, everyone, for your kind words and sweet thoughts. We're gonna be OK. Thanks to ya'll, I know that now.
After that, I wanna get back to sewing !
