Miles of Binding

We got an e-mail late yesterday afternoon from the fleet manager in Tacoma. The husband’s new work truck finally arrived at the dealer. It is scheduled to go to the body shop on Monday to have the toolboxes and racks installed. Once that work is complete, we will be able to go get it. Yay.

We got almost 6” of snow yesterday. It snowed for about 12 hours. This was the radar over our house, and it looked like this for most of the day. That blob of precipitation didn’t move:

We are in a very strange topographical niche here. We always get more snow than the rest of our neighborhood. That makes it very hard to know what’s going on in the rest of the valley. I often think it doesn’t occur to the road department to send the plows up here when we’re getting hammered because they look out the window and see rain.

I made the binding for the quilt and attached it. I got one side sewn down last night:

Only three more sides to go. I went with a gray binding because I wanted to “frame” the quilt. The binding is not anywhere as dark as it looks in the photo. It’s more of a medium gray, but this is what you get at 4 am in December in my living room. I do like that the binding picks up the darker colors in the top. I’m not a fan of light-colored bindings because I think they get dirty too easily.

I might swap our bed quilt out for this one over the summer—they are the same quilt in different colors—but I will have to keep the husband from sitting on it.

Making and attaching the binding took most of the morning, after which I worked on cleaning and organizing my sewing space. I am still trying to decide what to do about all these leftover pieces of apparel fabric. Many of them are large enough to use for linings or colorblocking, but I can’t keep everything just because I might have a use for it someday. (I could, but I risk being buried under an avalanche of fabric.) I felt much better after I corralled all the leftovers and put them in a large bag. I can’t work if things are too cluttered.

I feel like I am finally getting close to the end of my closet makeover. It’s too bad it took four decades of ill-fitting ready-to-wear to get to this point. I still have a few things I want to make, but the collection is looking a lot more coherent now. I also feel like I have more of these fitting issues under control.

I am ready for a change of pace. This is the time of year when I feel compelled to tidy up all the loose ends in preparation for starting afresh. I’m already looking ahead well into February.