Just Time For A Quickie

Well, I knew the day would eventually come when I wouldn’t have a big chunk of time to work on something new. It seems today is that day. Between an unexpected day off for my husband, a crabby baby with a chest cold, and a grumpy 6-year-old with an attitude, my time was much in demand today. Still, with 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there, I managed to piece together something new. Whew.

Seeing as I didn’t do the quilty birds as planned yesterday, I thought I’d give them a shot. So, I pulled out the paper, etc. and started trying to figure out how best to paste pieces together when it struck me – I hate glue. Like, really hate it. Okay, not glue per se – glue does a lot of good for a lot of people, but working with glue sucks. I can never seem to get it to stay where I want it to, and it inevitably gets all over my work, attracting various debris along the way. Yuck.

Right as I’m making this realization, I happened to look over at the kitchen table where my sewing machine is still set up (I’m hoping to get in a bit of mending before I put it away). When it hit me – why not just sew the paper together? Crazy, right? Maybe. But I’ve seen some scrapbooking layouts that used sewn stitches for decoration, so I thought I’d give it a try. I still have a few kinks to work out, but overall, I really like the effect.

A quilty bird – made using sewn scrapbooking paper.

I have no idea of it’s purpose or function really – I happened to mount it on a 12×12 piece of cardstock, so maybe it’ll become a scrapbooking page, who knows. Uh-oh. If you’ll excuse me, somebody in the other room is grousing about something. 😉