I have discovered Pinterest! Ok so I actually learned about it last year, but I have finally joined the crowds of people (or maybe it'd be more accurate to say "crowds of women") who "pin" things to online boards.
Why did I finally give in? My friends and I are figuring out what we're going to do about decorating our house, we are ready to bring the country to the city next year, and Pinterest is perfect for organizing the cool decorating ideas we've found. Some neat ideas we want to use: mason jar soap dispensers, antiqued wooden signs with inspirational messages, burlap placemats...
Above is a project I have been working on. I didn't find it on Pinterest. Rather, I found it in a pattern book hidden like treasure beneath a mound of fabric scraps at my grandma's house.
Grandma is a big quilter. She used to sew all the time. She'd sew up the quilts, take them to her Amish lady friends who would quilt them, then she'd sell them in Jamesport. I've always had an interest in sewing, I made my first quilt in middle school, but this is the first wall hanging I'll have made. It features several barnyard critters: three pigs, two chicks, a hen, a rooster, and a lamb, along with a sun, barn and silo, cornfield and tractor.
Agriculture is part of all of my new house-mates' lives, and we aim to let that be known to all who enter our home.
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