Gimme time, stained glass and yet another idea

 I finished the current woven panel and Fred and Ursula are guarding it and the others against dastardly marauders

Yesterday was a great afternoon for sitting on the deck watching birds and clouds and reading. I heard Gary at the front door call me. Made my way to the door, in time to see him drive off.  

Today I reminded him to give me a minute to get there. He explained he thought I might be upstairs sleeping (!) and he didn't want to disturb me. As if.   But he'll allow for my increasing slowness. He's too polite to look in and see if I'm on my way. Very proper!

Today I returned the shoes I was thinking of painting to improve the hideous color, nothing like the online color. I had decided life's too short to be endlessly coping. And I hoped the UPS lady wouldn't get all bureaucratic about the lack of the original box they came in, now broken down and recycled.

As with a lot of in-person encounters, a lot depends on the person behind the counter. Today it was a very happy lady who scanned the code I'd screenshot, whipped out the receipt, easy. Thank you. 

The refund will more than pay for the completely satisfactory ironing blanket thing. Amazon, which I only use when all else fails, has tightened its returns rules, now specifying to return in the original mfr packaging, but this lady wasn't worried.

Meanwhile another skirt idea occurred  to me about some pedal pushers in a nice color, but now too big. I shrank, they didn't.

So I cut the inseams off, trimmed back and now I'm insetting batik in a cheerful contrast, 

Front 

Back

You can see why I'm taking the trouble -- great cargo pockets, drawstring waist, much better as a skirt than hanging in the closet.

But this is only stage one. After I've stitched the inserts, which have a technical name, never mind,  inside there's a  rectangle of batik, front and back.

After I finish the insides, I will have two triangles to trim off, parallel to the sloping sides of the inserts.. Which will then be appliqued to the outside of the  skirt to complete the design and disguise its pantly origins. It will also use up every square inch of this piece of batik, all I have in this color.

The geometry of this idea took a bit of thinking and pinning and snorting in annoyance and reversing and repinning.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi loves to say don't agonize, organize.  This stitcher says don't repine, repin!

And for a change of pace from my endless stitching and bitching, here's a lovely stained glass work to enjoy

Look her up, she's a terrific designer. 

And happy day everyone! Off to stitch now, good vibes to your experimenting today. And everything else, really.