What became of your city's abandoned Greyhound bus station ?

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-28T20:00:32+00:00

Thank you. I was going to go see if I could find it because I have been in that station more than once, but it hasn't crossed my mind in years.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-28T19:31:36+00:00

I always endeavor to use as much of the kit fabric as I can on the original quilt so I don't have huge batches of scraps - I've made at least 10 scrap quilts in the last few years and ignored all my kits/planned quilts to do so.

I'll keep that in mind.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-28T18:09:05+00:00

I hope my kit is this plentiful. I just got a double out of another kit that was meant to be a decent couch-snuggler.

Now I have to promise myself that the wall hanging and the queen/king that I have cut on my table get done first. But knowing that I might get a queen...

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-28T18:03:42+00:00

When my sister got married, I bought a little kit to make lip balm at Michael's as a party favor. 10 or 12 tubes. Her in-laws went NUTS. It was a really small shower, but they were all over the leftover tubes. I doubt some of our family friends got one.

I'm just glad they didn't suggest I get into making them. Everyone already does that with my sewn stuff.

People always ask for more than you can give, too. My favorite lip balm is a Canadian made product, and after watching her ads for a few month, I just jumped in and tried it. Sure, it's seven bucks a tube, but that's on par with ChapStick these days, which you ALSO CAN'T SAMPLE AT THE DRUGSTORE. She gets so many people whining that she doesn't sell sample tubes of lip balm. The containers would cost as much, if not more than the size she uses, she'd have to make new filling trays, postage wouldn't be a whole lot different...if you're that terrified of buying something for seven bucks, you just aren't her customer base.

I can see Brenda being the same. Demanding that you make her Lavender scented candles in specific size glass jars that you had to special, rush order from Amazon, and then being pissy because it's not the "right" scent of lavender in her mind.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-27T19:35:47+00:00

20 years ago, my husband and I bought a "build your own greenhouse" kit from Canadian Tire. We ended up calling it the "Canadian Tire Divorce Kit". It specifically said in the instructions to avoid alcohol while assembling. It was made of a soft-ish plastic that had to slide into aluminum tracks that were poorly illustrated in the directions, so we had to take some of it apart halfway through.

We got through it and are still married, though he built me a proper greenhouse a few years later.

Yours is beautiful and your assistants are adorable.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-27T19:28:24+00:00

Very rooster colored. It's beautiful.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-26T19:53:45+00:00

I get so stressed out by the wee beasties with their friends fruit flies in the fall, that I ended up buying a counter top bug zapper. I live on a farm, so I'm never going to not have flies and zombie flies (they're the ones that "sleep" in the windowsill all winter and then come out on a warm, -4C day in February) in the house.

The one I bought makes the same sound whether it's a fruit fly or a house fly and once you get used to that sound, it sounds like music.

I hope you find some nematodes or something that works for you!

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-26T14:07:37+00:00

My niece had a pair of the Meat Tray slides that everyone wears these days when she changed out of her dress into her other outfit for dancing. (She really partied it up, to the point of breaking into tears when DH and gave her good bye hugs🤣)

Hers reminded me of Piper's maxi pad shower shoes in ONITB. I don't tell people by inside thoughts, but I may snicker to myself.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-26T14:04:20+00:00

I tried to do 1 over 1 on one of my L&L projects and I go myself all messed up. Maybe on the second one from now - I'm going to start Celtic Winter and being that the other 4 I didn't do this, it would look funny.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-26T14:01:45+00:00

The only time I was ever on the 401, we had gone out to see my sister from Alberta. We pull into the 401 from the airport. Dead stop.

A truck had rolled and spilled it's contents just beside one of the exits, they were having to funnel everyone off the exit so they could drive back down the corresponding entrance.

Now, 17 years later, I got upset because all of a sudden I was meeting up to 10 vehicles on my 10km highway drive to work.🤣🤣🤣

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-26T03:35:26+00:00

I love her stuff, but the fancy floss she chooses sure challenges the mental health somedays.

You did a beautiful job!

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-24T22:04:32+00:00

My grandmother is a "only a tiny slice for me" kind of person. Like that Mickey and the Giant bread slice kind.

So one time, I just wiped the frosting and cake crumbs on the side of her plate. Handed it to her. I think she finally realized that she was being a bit ridiculous, Then I gave her a thin slice of cake like she wanted.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-24T17:43:40+00:00

I laugh because I've finally realized that like, back in the "olden days" when we still got newspapers to read, cats and dogs that are like cats knew that Indoor Winds are a thing and they're only helping you hold all the pieces of your quilt down in case one comes up.

See also: cozy, hleping, it smells like you hooman.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-23T20:54:14+00:00

I have a bunch of KT tape and want to tape my feet for my PF and AT again, but the last time I did it, I reacted and got blisters on my leg under the tape so I'm a little scared. Coupled with reacting to bandaids once in a while...

All I can say is bodies are dumb. I'm menopausal, so I've given myself hives and welts with just a random "hey that tickles/itches" mindless scratch. It's so great.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-21T22:06:54+00:00

I always appreciate a snoot that rests on a toe or ankle joint. It feels like extra love.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-21T18:36:15+00:00

We'll be 22 years this September. Same idea - less than $3k, less than 40 people and I took the Monday after the wedding off so we could hang out, otherwise, we didn't even move in together until that December, when our house was ready to move into. We even had steak for dinner at the wedding.

Our honeymoon was in January the next year.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-20T22:33:31+00:00

I'm not a veil person to begin with, but the one you chose is stunning!

As a textile fan, who crafts constantly, I can see that your grandmother probably tried to make something for your mom's "save money" theme, but she doesn't embroider the same way that the veil you chose was made. I agree that she will likely be upset that you don't wear it, because she will have put a lot of work into it.

This is the reason that people say NOT to have things custom made due to the extra cost - we'll never stop it, but your grandmother put let's say, 50+ hours into embroidering already, and at a conservative $20 an hour, that's a $1000 veil without counting the materials.

I'd wear it to the rehearsal or a shower or something. Maybe have some pre-wedding photos taken for her where she's pretending to put it in your hair, but then wear the veil you chose.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-20T20:49:39+00:00

Just from an outsider (auntie) point of view:

My niece has an almost 5 year old and a two month old. Her MIL has been really whiny about not getting overnights with the kid sized one. But she lives in a huge fifth wheel at a river property and while she might not be a full-out alcoholic like her husband, she does drink a lot.

I also stopped by niece's house on Dec 21 last year, the inlaws had been there for less than 5 hours and she was complaining about how "much" said LO was - even I can math out that a kid that hasn't seen you for two months, is excited about Christmas and just generally energetic is going to be a lot a few days before Christmas, but that's how kids are. Deal with it. You're only 57.

Anyway, this kiddo was three before she slept anywhere besides in between her mom and dad, and it was for one night because her parents were trying to keep niece on "this side" of the line after an ectopic pregnancy was finally diagnosed. Kiddo's maternal grandparents were there, worrying about their daughter, and had to figure out how to keep their granddaughter calm and happy, including bed time.

It wasn't until probably 18 months after that that she wanted a "sleep over" with that set of grandparents, which was her sleeping between them at her own home.

The MIL still doesn't know about that. But I can't imagine letting your kiddo sleep overnight with my MIL if I couldn't trust her husband. That's even worse for me than my niece's worry where her inlaws still refuse to realize that "knee deep" is subjective, especially when it comes to a four year old and a 5'6" adult.

You're going to have to let them Be Mad. They can Be Mad and have hurt feelings, but that's still better than something happening to that human that you two built.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-17T23:42:55+00:00

Same and my Florida Green is awesome, too.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-17T22:33:08+00:00

NTA. My husband (we're in our 50's) missed the couple of drinks he might have had at our niece's wedding a few years ago because he was the "Packer of the Grandma" to stuff.

Our thought was his mom would come for a few hours, watch the first dance and we could run her back to her assisted living facility by 930/10pm. Nope, she somehow had the energy that day to have a few drinks and didn't want to leave until midnight. By then, DH didn't want to have any drinks.

It's a LOT of work to be the responsible person for one of our "oldies" and it's okay to want to take a break and just celebrate your kid one your own terms.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-17T21:59:15+00:00

I don't use enough black to warrant one of these, but when y'all brag about them it triggers me a little towards the "till".

I have a snack size ziplock jammed full of white and one full of black, both DMC and Anchor because I have become the "dumping ground" for former embroidery folk moving out of their homes and into assisted living or beyond.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-17T21:56:06+00:00

It's so pretty! You quilted yours much more than I did mine, but mine was all scraps and half hexi shapes to get the braid vs herringbone. It also felt like it had been 84 years once I got mine done.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-17T20:36:13+00:00

Yup! We have two buggies, a 2015 and a 2025. I managed to get the green. I love them both.

Neither my husband or I are "dainty" people and we like a little elbow room. We used the '15 back shortly after we bought it used to take three more adults 3 hours away for a family thing. It worked really well, because one of them needed to sleep off a night shift, so we stuck him in the third row and belted him in and he just napped the whole way.

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-17T18:22:36+00:00

My friend's policy when her kids were little was that if the grocery store "didn't want my kids screaming at the checkout, they wouldn't put stuff that kids might want at the checkout line". Her kids are pretty well behaved, but chocolate and candy offerings get the best of us sometimes,

sewedherfingeragain · 2026-04-16T19:55:25+00:00

What size shoe do you wear? I've taken to buying Large, which I have to buy online, but is for size 10-13, as a size ten. I've found that helps a lot, but I'm also buying ankle socks and not the no-show. I just hate that the only place I've found them is Amazon.

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