So what am I doing when I'm not writing blog articles, researching, posting in my group, foraging, processing the results of foraging, or helping my daughter with her horse? I'm scanning free sewing patterns online to see if any would work for handsewing projects, attempting marketing and promotion for my services, doing household stuff, or when I've done too much and need to forcibly slow down, maybe playing some freecell. . .

Here is the latest handsew project I just finished. A set of 10 reusable cosmetic pads, one set for my son's half-bath, and one set for the main bathroom. The pads themselves were cut from an old bath towel, using a glass as a "pattern". The top and bottom of the container was cut that way as well, but a full inch roughly, away from the glass. The wash bag is made from a piece of "cheesecloth" I'd originally made from drapery sheers. After tossing 14 of the pads into the wash and only retrieving 13, (???) I realized I had to make these wash bags!

The container was made from a scrap of white heavy drapery that I'd used when my daughter wanted me making "blackout" curtains using white drapery instead of actual black-out drapery. She didn't realize there was more to the blackout drapery than just white reflecting heat back outside. So some of that got taken down over the past year to add actual blackout drapery cut to window size instead, so that left white drapery cloth I could use for other projects. I sewed the lid of the container the same way I sewed the cosmetic pads, just for continuity-sake.

I'm using up a bunch of hard-to-start tiny spools of thread that came with my little red sewing kit years ago (long before I realized that handsewing can be just as useful as machine sewing). I now have a bunch of white/grey/tan spools left to use up, then as my daughter puts it, we can go buy "real thread"!