Why stitches in the title of the Blog?

I have been a fabric artist for a number of years now.  I started out with embroidery that Mom taught me when I was 10 and then moved onto quilts in my 20s.  My 30's was consumed with taking care of children.  In my 40s I started making more modern quilts and in my 50s I started dyeing my own fabric and adding surface design.  I thought living with Mom would be a good time to go back to some of the earlier work that was more stitching and less dyeing and other messy processes. And Mom might like to sit and stitch with me.  Something we can share.  So, that is why the blog is about stitching as well as living with my Mom.

Here is the first hand stitching project.  This is a wall hanging I started years ago and was never satisfied with.  It is titled "She Thinks She is the Center of the Universe (but she isn't)."  I named it after my daughter--you know who you are.  If you look really close you can see a face in the middle of the pink aura.  Anyway, staying with Mom was my chance to work on it some more. 

Well, it's kinda my chance to work on it.  Mom doesn't believe in having on unnecessary lights.  I can have the lights on at night  but it worries Mom.  So, I have to work on my wall hanging of the night time sky during daylight.  

And Mom says she doesn't like to sew.

Did you know you should wash your dryer's lint trap?

 

The washer and dryer in Mom's house are in the hallway leading to the small bathroom.  Yesterday Mom felt the need to check the washer and the dryer.  I had left some clothes in the washing machine.  Mom said I should never do that.  Actually Mom had already taught me that and I was just being lazy.   Before Mom put the clothes in the dryer for me she checked the dryer's lint trap.  It still had lint in it from my last load of laundry.  I always hand remove the lint before I start the dryer with the next load of laundry.  Yesterday I learned that just scrapping the lint off the filter was not enough.  The lint filter needs to be washed in the kitchen sink to make it really lint free.

Who knew?

Today we washed an old table that I have.  Actually it was dirty when I bought it at a yard sale years ago and I have done nothing to it so it really needed to be washed.  When I moved in with Mom I decided it was time to at least paint it so Mom and I first washed some of the dirt off.

I thought washing the table would be good for Mom.  She sleeps a lot which is natural when you are 92 but I thought part of it might just be boredom too.  Mom likes to clean and the table needed to be cleaned.  That seemed to be a natural partnering.