There is a LQS here in my neck of the woods (matter of fact they were one of Better Homes & Gardens Quilt Maker Magazine 2016 shops of the year) that has a class on making umbrellas. I finally signed up to take this class this past spring with the gift certificate that my mom gave me for Christmas. On class day I had taken two fabrics with me, one a batik and the other a potential tablecloth my mom had bought for herself but it didn't quite fit her table. Out of frustration she handed me the material and said if you can ever come up with something for this fabric than go for it. That was two years prior to this umbrella class. On the day of the class I pulled out the tablecloth fabric. I thought meh, I can do it. Little did I realize that there would be some fussy cutting to make things match up. So naturally I was the slow poke in the class. But it was all worth it. Everything matched up as it should and believe it or not that tablecloth fabric made a pretty neat umbrella.
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Now for the second half of this story. I love fall. But from August to late October my life is put into overdrive. I have a high schooler who is active in marching band as one of the flag/color guard girls. I work over 50 hours a week, and attend college part time.Plus I am also one if the photographers on the field during football season. A couple of weeks ago I had a massive migraine that a normal person could not withstand. The ER doctor asked me when do I stop being super woman. Since I really could not speak the thought ran through my head, "When God sends me the right man in my life Doc!"
After that I cut back on the football games by attending the home games only. I felt bad missing out on my daughter's performances but she understood. Then as of late I have been feeling really burned out with my schooling so I played hooky with my homework last week. Maybe I shouldn't have but I am carrying high marks. I cleared my desk of all my school stuff and cracked out my sewing machine and I started to sew the all ready cut out umbrella panels that I had set aside for my daughter and myself. For mine I used the batik that I had taken with me in the spring to the umbrella class but did not use. For my daughter's umbrella I used a teal batik with a coordinating dragonfly batik.
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It did feel really good to be able to sew even if it was for one day. Now the only thing I have left to do on these two is to well for one buy another frame for one umbrella. Hand stitch them and then water proof spray them.
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Now for the second half of this story. I love fall. But from August to late October my life is put into overdrive. I have a high schooler who is active in marching band as one of the flag/color guard girls. I work over 50 hours a week, and attend college part time.Plus I am also one if the photographers on the field during football season. A couple of weeks ago I had a massive migraine that a normal person could not withstand. The ER doctor asked me when do I stop being super woman. Since I really could not speak the thought ran through my head, "When God sends me the right man in my life Doc!"
After that I cut back on the football games by attending the home games only. I felt bad missing out on my daughter's performances but she understood. Then as of late I have been feeling really burned out with my schooling so I played hooky with my homework last week. Maybe I shouldn't have but I am carrying high marks. I cleared my desk of all my school stuff and cracked out my sewing machine and I started to sew the all ready cut out umbrella panels that I had set aside for my daughter and myself. For mine I used the batik that I had taken with me in the spring to the umbrella class but did not use. For my daughter's umbrella I used a teal batik with a coordinating dragonfly batik.
IMAG01599.jpg IMAG01602.jpg IMAG01604.jpg
It did feel really good to be able to sew even if it was for one day. Now the only thing I have left to do on these two is to well for one buy another frame for one umbrella. Hand stitch them and then water proof spray them.
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