What do these things have in common? I tried them all for the first time yesterday. I know! What a busy day!
Yesterday was a regularly scheduled day off for my husband. When he works a Saturday (every 3rd weekend), he doesn’t work the preceeding Monday (yesterday). I love the Mondays when he’s home; the working Saturdays are a different story. My man puts up with a lot of stuff to provide for his family. Reason #453 why I love him so.
Anyway, back to my productive day. Because hubby was home, I got a lot of piecing done for my customer’s baby quilt. The customer wanted the baby’s name embroidered on the top of the quilt. Having never done hand embroidery before, I asked if she’d mind if I used applique instead. She said applique would be fine, too. Well, the more I thought about it, the more hand embroidery made sense for this particular quilt. I found a great resource online with a library of short videos demonstrating many common embroidery stitches. I tried it… and I liked the results! The website I found is: http://www.needlenthread.com.
The next new thing I did was imported a new font to my computer’s font library. It was easy and I don’t know why I’ve never thought about doing it before. I was looking for a fun font to use for the lettering on the baby quilt I mentioned above. There are a ton of websites out there that offer free font downloads. I found a font I liked, then downloaded it from the site and saved it to my computer. Next, I went into my computer’s control panel and under fonts, selected ‘Install New Font’ from the file menu and selected the folder to which the new font was saved. Ta da! The new font was added. Then, I opened Word and selected the new font from the list. Pretty cool. I think I’ll use this trick more often. Sometimes the default font selection just doesn’t cut it.
The third thing… banana bread. Yeah, why hasn’t an otherwise respectable, months-away-from-being-27-years-old wife and mother not made banana bread before? I didn’t have a good excuse so I got out the trusty Better Holmes & Gardens cookbook and started making it. Luckily, I had 5 medium-sized (just what the recipe calls for) bananas way past their prime begging not to be thrown away. So, in the end, I did it. It was good, too.
Anyone else? Care to share a recent new thing you’ve tried?