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As I was finishing some last minute things,I decided to cushy-up a foam pad for GDD. Snoozing on her new mattress is like sleeping on a brick. I wr apped a sheet of foam snugly with high-loft batting, and slip-stitched it, then made a pillow-slip type cover from a sheet. Still have to sew big snap s at the top. I figure that will keep the kid from picking chunks out of th e foam. I might later make a feather topper with channels, and attach it to the edge of the slip-cover, also with large snaps. The stash, which I'm trying to whittle-down, holds two feather pillows, leftover from for refurbishing my down comforter. I'll decant the feathers into the topper. It only took three or more hours to find my box of sheeting for the cove r. I keep forgetting the First Rule of Finding Things: Look in The Last Place First. Years ago, Piece Goods (remember them?) had a sale on mill-end sheets. I f I remember right, I paid about $1.00 each. Some were nice, finished items , others were mis-cuts. I had a notion of using them for quilt backings. No t, as it turned out, a good idea for hand-quilting. They were really tough to needle, although they seem to do well with machine-quilting. Over the years, I've made curtains, duvet covers, pillowcases, a quilt, and a few other odds and ends from the sheets. Most of them were wildly-pat terned--not typical sheet fabric, which made them quite versatile. Some of the sheeting screamed "Aprons!" at me as I was rummaging through them, so that may be the next sheet trick I pull. Happy Holidays to those of you who celebrate. See you next year! Cea

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