soccer stitches

 

my oldest daughter brought my grandkids to her younger sister's soccer game last week. we're homeschoolers but some of my kids have played for the local high school team. d4 plays club soccer and is currently playing for the high school her oldest sister, d1, played for a decade ago. it's a little weird for me to remember being at this field 10 years ago with d5 running around and belting out an off-key version of "stitches" while her oldest sister played and now here we are with d1 in the stands and her three children, one who is the same age her littlest sister was when she played her.

i'm not a sports fan, but i show up to support my kids periodically. and i always bring handwork with me. my best friend and former college roommate, whose daughter is also on the team, caught a photo of me making faces at the baby during halftime. you can see what i was binding at the time: christmas liberty log cabin. 

having binding clips handy came in useful beyond the quilt when my grandaughter needed to get her hair out of her face and we couldn't find her hair clip anywhere. 

me binding my first quilt with the hair-style clips i used to use

ironically, my very first binding clips, by dritz, resembled those silver barrettes worn when i was a kid. it seems like some mother must have decided they'd help with her quilt binding once apon a time and they were marketed that way for a while.

now the clover clips are what i use as they're more compact, easier to get off with one hand, and hold the binding flat whereas the hair clip-style version curved it. but it turns out you can use clover clips for hair, too, in a pinch. who knew quilt binding and hair-styling had so much in common?