Monthly Hang-Ups

My daughter-in-law Amy found these at a secondhand store somewhere.  There are two sets of 12, two for each month.  September, October, November, and December were almost complete.  January through April had the appliqués fused to the background, and that was all.  I finished them, except for the wire.  I've ordered it; it will arrived in a few days.

Vintage button from my mother's button box.

Two vintage buttons from my mother's button box.

(I think the 'R' and 'I' stand for 'Reading' and 'Irregular Verbs'.) 😏

I was hand-stitching up the last little bits, turning them right side out as I went along, using my Oxmoor House point turner:

I sewed another block... turned it... reached for the point turner...

It was gone.

I looked high and low... and then I looked low and high.  I looked in the trash can.  I looked under my sewing machine.  I looked under my laptop.  I looked in the other sewing room.  I looked in my pockets.  I gave up and went for my other point turner, which isn’t quite as pointy.

Flash forward:

I finished stitching shut the hole on hanging block #6.  Reached over to lay it on the stack –

Uh, wuzzis?  There’s sumpthang sorta hard and plasticky inside this thing.

?

Oh.

Yes.

Quite so.  (In a Winnie-the-Pooh tone.)

So I ripped it back open and extracted my Oxmoor House point turner.

The end.