My Kitchen Sink

Talk about slow stitching....I hate to admit this, but it's been several years...yes, years since I finished redecorating my kitchen.  I've been looking at a blank wall while doing dishes all this time.  Now, I don't mind taking my time in finding just the right pieces for decorating my home, but staring at a blank, painted wall while doing the dishes is just wrong on so many levels.  

Several months ago, I had it!  Enough is enough.  If I don't take the time to make something pretty it will never happen.  I knew all along what I wanted to make, it was just making that project a priority that was the problem....read...making me the priority.  We always put ourselves last on the list, don't we?  There was nothing stopping me but me, so as Nike says...just do it already!

Yesterday Remembered, designed by Kim Diehl in her book Simple Graces

I have loved this design by Kim Diehl since the moment I purchased the book.  I combines all my favorites...cotton, wool, and a lovely applique.  I took my sweet ol' time slow stitching this little sweetie and enjoyed every stitch!  

Now, I have something lovely to look at while doing dishes, cooking, and anytime I'm in the kitchen (which often seems like half of my life!)  I chose all the components carefully, right down to the antique buttons.  

As you can see, there's already soapy water in the sink!

Even when I'm just passing thru on my way to my sewing room, it makes me smile.  After all, isn't that exactly why we bring needle and thread to fabric anyway?  It just makes us so happy to spend our time sewing, and have something truly wonderful to enjoy afterward.  What's not to love?

My friend, Becky C., from my wonderful group of women for my Prairie Women's Sewing Circle club at The Quilt Merchant (I miss you all so much!!!), shared this awesome tip for hanging quilts.  Becky is truly an inspiration when it comes to decorating her home with quilts, and she shared how she uses the velcro 3M Command Strips to hang small quilts.  It's really wonderful.  It doesn't harm the quilt, or the walls at all, and you can easily remove or re-position the quilt any way you'd like!   My husband asked me if I was worried about the quilt getting dirty from any splashes at the sink.  Well....not so much, but honestly, if by chance I was concerned, I can just pop the quilt off the wall, and put it back.  So far...after all these years, the blank wall made it thru unharmed, so I'm not that worried about the quilt.

So...you and I need to take a lesson from this!  Make time to sew, and make more wonderful things...just for us!  We deserve it!   

And thank you, Becky, for passing along such a great tip for hanging quilts!