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Last week was a week of studio 'catastrophes'', I let the cleanliness of the studio go for too long. Dye was transferred to my ironing board and then (of course) transferred to a piece I am making for the book. I boiled water to remove the unwanted dye and then proceeded to clean my studio. This is the best it has looked since December!

Alice, my partner in crime, and help mate extraordinaire, installed this clothes line above my sink! I had been using a clothes line strung haphazardly between a bookcase and a closet, which was unsightly. It interfered with my window view, and made me unable to close the closet door.
This line was originally bought for use as a curtain rod; a high tension wire strung between two wall mounts. Alice went to a hardware store and bought flexible plastic tubing to cover the wire and make it easy to wipe clean. it hangs over the sink so things have a place to drip into. AWESOME!!! And super helpful in so many ways.

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Here is a new image of my sewing room window sill. The Sucrets box is one I inherited from my Grandma Testa. She used to keep her bobbins in it and it still contains one that she wound when she still walked this earth. I treasure the box. It is quite dented and is rusting. Do they even make metal boxes of Sucrets anymore? (i think they do.)
There is a tarot card (Strength) that David gave me a few months back, a pewter frog, some glass charms... stuff that makes me happy.

This morning I woke with vim and vigor. I'd bought a copy of the Studios issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors which has an article about pin cushions...
which put a bee in my bonnet.
I need about 2 more of these in different sizes.

And sock progress(?) I have ripped this sock three times and am very proud to say so. I've decided I like knitting and ripping is an aspect of knitting, so, well. Sometimes you have to rip back. The first sock I tried to knit with this yarn was too difficult for my attention span, the second, I cast on too many stitches and didn't figure it out till I was about 5" into it. Oh well. This sock is the charm.

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It kills me that I cannot show my work and do show and tell! That is what blogging is all about, isn't it? Instead I can share that I re-covered my print table! I don't know how many of you have a print table or feel the need to re-cover it. But it is an onerous task that in the end is quite rewarding. My old surface has so much dye in it, I was getting secondary images in my work. Yuck!!

Yesterday I woke and enjoyed, without opening my eyes, a beautiful overall orange color. I laid in bed and enjoyed it, then began my day. I had to go into town and on my way back, sitting on a fence was a bird who looked wonderfully orange, but who could really see while driving 25 miles an hour?
I set up my day of sewing, without realizing it choosing an predominately orange piece to sew. I sat down at my Bernina, looked up at the bird feeder and saw these little guys, who dispite thier name are really orange colored. Don't let them fool you.

I also woke to a very sweet email from a fellow quilt artist named Karen Linduska, who'd had a sleepless night and stumbled upon my web site and blog. Go check her work out!

And, did any of you catch this???? Pokey Bolton owns a piece of my work and talks about it on her blog. It hangs amidst other really beautif pieces! Yeah!