Skip to main content

Sewing

 I went to JoAnn's a while ago to buy some material. There was a woman who was ahead of me in line with a shopping cart filled with bolts and bolts of material. She kindly let me go ahead of her. She was going to buy a yard of each of those bolts to make scrub caps. Apparently she not only donates these to a local hospital, she takes custom orders -- color preference, favorite animal, child friendly, etc.  Some people are so sweet and giving.

I made myself a cotton dress with my purchase. It light and loose and comfy.




But the idea of the scrub caps stayed on my mind. Not that I am gong to go into production, but my hair has gotten so long now I thought I really needed something to keep it out of the way while I cook or clean.  I found this tutorial on YouTube.
Quick, Easy. Fits really well. And it's reversible so two for one! 


I definitely will make some for medical field friends and relatives in the future.

I later made a trip to the lovely little local quilt shop here in Venice to get material for a quilt. My step-granddaughter is getting married in October. I had in mind peachy colors and yet, I left the store with grays.

This is as far as I have gotten with that:
Ready to sandwich and quilt, but I will probably wait until I am back in Vermont because I have a big table there that will make assembly much easier.

I did finish a table runner with scraps. This will be part of a shower gift for my granddaughter.


My grandmother always said, "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop." Some things just stick with you through life.



Comments

  1. Arkansas PattiApril 14, 2021 at 3:31 PM

    Scrub caps are a great idea.
    For non-medical use, there could be a cottage industry using them to hide shaggy hair due to Covid keeping folks away from the beauticians.
    That dress does look comfy.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)April 14, 2021 at 4:00 PM

    Ah you're talented too. I think I am the only blogger out here in blogsphere without a talent to show. Love the dress! It looks like it's striped in the back. The top of the back or all of the back. Nosey minds need to know. :-)
    You mentioned you wanted peach but got gray. Peach and gray look nice together if that helps.
    I love the idea of the scrub caps.There are good people in the world. That was really a nice thing she was doing.

    ReplyDelete
  3. OlgaApril 14, 2021 at 4:34 PM

    The back top is striped because I screwed up cutting the back piece and had to make do with what I had. I tell myself it adds a bit of interest to a plain dress.

    ReplyDelete
  4. JoaredApril 14, 2021 at 10:52 PM

    Sewing is an interesting way to occupy your time and keep you out of trouble. Your projects are attractive sounding. My machine needs to be refreshed a bit but all the once prevalent businesses that used to do that have long since gone out of business even before the pandemic. I’ll have to check around.

    ReplyDelete
  5. MaebemeApril 15, 2021 at 10:55 AM

    My mother was always working on something and I find myself doing the same. It feels odd to just sit and not knit or crochet. My sewing skills, on the other hand, are limited.

    Great idea for the surgical caps, and your dress is lovely.

    ReplyDelete
  6. gigi-hawaiiApril 15, 2021 at 11:52 AM

    What a cute dress, ideal for summer! Just love it. Also, very good ideas for your granddaughter's wedding and shower.

    ReplyDelete
  7. KayApril 18, 2021 at 6:04 PM

    Olga, you are a talented seamstress! That dress is wonderful and looks stylish and comfortable. I have a retired nurse buddy who made a bunch of those scrub caps for her physical therapist daughter to share with the hospital. I've made about 400 masks this past year and really don't want to make more... however.... maybe.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I appreciate readers' comments so much. You don't even always have to agree with me.

Popular posts from this blog

It's TIme

 It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
10 comments
Read more

Walking

 I have always been a walker. Now that I have a high energy dog there is no excuse for not getting out there. And the weather is not an interfering factor here. Early morning and early evening are our preferred times so even when it gets hot we should be okay. We can get quite a long walk going around the neighborhood, greeting neighbors out working in their yards or walking their own dogs. But the landscape changes quickly just beyond the confines of the housing developments. It could be described as natural Florida or as sites of future housing developments. I do prefer the first option. And I really enjoy being out in natural areas so I often opt to head to a nature setting. I would have liked to put a picture here. Unfortunately my iPhone has made a unilateral decision. It will no longer be sending my photos to my computer. Why? I have no idea. However, we may be walking along happily enough -- me listening to the birds or trying to identify wildflowers and other plants while L...
10 comments
Read more

Wedding

 Don and I drove to South Carolina to attend the wedding of my step-grandson, Will. Will Will and Katie The wedding took place on Dataw Island, a beautiful outdoor ceremony followed by a reception in the country club. We stayed in a tiny cottage in the historic center of Beaufort, rented from Vrbo. Since the wedding was at 5 p.m., we had time to explore the area a bit. I really like the low country scenery and historical charm. Sitting quietly in the curtained gazebo I was visited by multiple cardinals. They came to visit the feeder, not me, but I can always pretend! How I will always remember Will!
14 comments
Read more