First Beans

Look at the lovely first beans from the garden.  In the picture, they hardly know that they have been picked. 

This jacket has a sad story.  Apparently the pattern was not accurately sized.  It was my size when I started it but was just a little tight; as a result it hung unfinished in my closet until I decided to see if a friend wanted it.  It fit her and she wanted it but by that time, I could not find the scraps.  I needed the scraps to make new button loops.  I can hardly believe that I made the loops the way I did; I knew better.  The result was that the  jacket hung in my closet a couple more years while wrinkles set in more firmly. 

Last week I decided that I wanted yarn that I knew was in one of two boxes.  I looked in both boxes and found the yarn and discovered that there was fabric in the other box.  At the bottom were the scraps.  I made the covered cording for the button loops, opened the front seam and stitched in the new loops.  Yesterday I stitched in the hems and today I gave it a thorough pressing.  It looks good to me and I hope it still looks good to my friend tomorrow.