Day 6 - More Patches

In this tiny house we call our home there is no room to set up a place to iron.  Yesterday’s ironing had to be put away in favor of meal preparation.  So today I finished the job, adding 4 more patches to the bag, completing one side.  As far as I know there are no more patches lurking, but I’m probably wrong.  I also added to the pile of garbage:

1 outgrown shoe
Fabric scraps
Packing box
A broken piece of sewing equipment
A worn out T-shirt of my oldest
A torn shopping bag


My son outgrew the shoes years ago.  One was thrown out, the other was lost, until today.  The fabric scraps were left over from a project that I did 5 years ago, the packing box turned out to be too small for a care package that was mailed 2 years ago.

There is an interesting story to the sewing board.  My husband had a first wife, who obviously provided him with a first mother in law, who loved to sew.  That mother in law died in 1997, 20 ago.  His wife hoarded all the mother in law’s possessions thinking that they would someday be valuable.  All this in the tiny house.  After his first wife died, in the year 200, he slowly got rid of her possessions, but this hid out.  Today it’s garbage, just as it was in 1997.

My 14 year old is an extreme shirt chewer. It started in kindergarten where he would eat the sleeves of his long sleeve shirts, then whip them around. Now it’s just the neck line.  This shirt has a substantial hole in the chest and it’s only a few months old.  

You can barely see the tote bag, but it’s the green and cream object.  It was bought for a Cub Scout project many years ago but it tore quickly.  No longer will it frustrate me with fallout no apart at the worst possible time 

Total 60/3650







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