Tax Consolation

For the first time in either of our lives, we OWE taxes this year. $812 — oof! One or both of us messed up on withholding this year. I’m so stupid with this stuff. Fortunately next year we’ll have a big fat baby boy deduction, right? (And, unfortunately, far less income, in all likelihood.) In order to not cry I took to admiring and ironing and scanning the best pieces from a recent eBay purchase of little tiny scraps. Which of course I shouldn’t have bought, now that we owe money. But anyway. eBay is NOT what it used to be with the vintage fabric lots — have you noticed?, so I was pretty fortunate with this one.

The winner! The circles remind me of marbles, and the color combo is genius.

The little heads and the birds take this design from masculine/kitschy to cute and feminine. And another genius colorway.

Squiggles!

This is from the tiniest scrap – a circle only a few inches big, meant to be a yo-yo

Pattern designers these days make too liberal use of Illustrator — I say down with clean lines and let’s use some more pencils and paintbrushes.

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