Showing posts with label Simms Taback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simms Taback. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Scraps, scraps


Don't you just wish you had enough time to use all of your ideas and stash? I sometimes think I'll have to will my stash to someone. Even when I do something that's designed to clear it up I find myself with more bits that I can't toss quite yet. I have a friend who had a most favorite fabric and she used it bit by bit till she had a fingernail sized piece and then used that! It reminds me of the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. A tailor had a large wool overcoat that was torn and worn. So he cut it down to a jacket and when that grew worn he cut it down to a vest and when that was worn he cut it down to a scarf and then a necktie, a handkerchief and then a button to hold his suspenders.