As of March 1st, there will be new regulations for the use of plastic bags in New York State. Are you ready?
I am trying to figure out just what an “exempt” plastic bag is. Also, does this affect me at my craft fairs? I do usually use paper bags for my customers but I do put my hooded towels in a plastic bag. Do I need to change that?
My hubby does the grocery shopping as a rule and we have been using reusable bags for that for quite some time now. Now I will need to keep some bags handy in the car for when I do shopping, grocery or otherwise. I am experimenting with a couple of different styles, including one that I can easily keep folded up in my purse. And, of course, I am going to make them colorful. I’ll post pictures of what I come up with soon.
So, if you want to find out what might, or might not, be changing come March 1, you can read about the new regulations and who can and cannot offer plastic bags, you can go to The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation website here .
I’ll be in my sewing room making bags that will make shopping fun for me. Ok, no, they won’t but they sure will make me smile more than the plastic bags did.
See you soon. Bye for now.
Ginny
A perfect day for spending some time in my sewing room. So that’s where I headed. What should I work on? I took out some fabric for some plate cozies and worked on them for a bit. However, even after doing the post-holiday clean up, I still had lots of piles/small bins of scraps around that were totally not organized and they were staring at me. I find that I enjoy my time at my sewing machine more if the area around me is fairly neat and organized.
It was from a Bonnie Hunter leader/ender challenge from last year? The year before? I don’t remember now. But I did recall what my idea was for this quilt. I was going to call it Tumbling Seasons and cut tumblers in four different groups: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. I have obviously only gotten the Fall tumblers worked on. I got all the tumbler pieces pulled out of the bin and ironed them and the strips and put them all neatly back into their own bin. I need to see how many rows I get out of what I’ve already cut, add more if needed and then I will work on the other three seasons.
So I enlisted the help of the entertainment department (aka, my ipod). Anyone care to make a guess as to what type of music was playing. Here’s a hint:
Why don’t we just declare this week one big holiday and have one full week of celebrating the two very special days with each other.
However, those blocks will not be done by hand. I will be stitching them on my Featherweight. I am also not sure about making a full-on quilt from the blocks. Since many of the blocks are kitchen-specific themes, I am leaning towards making a wall-hanging for the brick wall in my kitchen and potholders, placemats, etc. I have a while before I need to make that decision though.
Boy do I love those binder clips. Sure saves a lot of pokes in my fingers when I was using pins. They are especially helpful when you are trying to put binding on something with a lot of curves like this.
She was going to just toss them but I said I’d take them and see what I could do with them. So, here is what I decided to do:
UFO #3 finished.
Or maybe chocolate candy cozies? Whatever they wind up being, I’m glad they made their way out of my UFO pile and into my basket last week.
I will let you know what I fill it up with. I have so many things on my “to do” list. Maybe it will be filled with the Christmas scraps for the scrappy Irish chain quilt. Or maybe with the pieces for the log cabin quilt. Or maybe with the two rag quilts I need to make. Actually, maybe I just need more baskets.
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