As you lot mightiness approximate from my grocery shopping enthusiasm of yesterday, I stayed abode as well as spent the solar daytime sewing yesterday. Big surprise, right? Which, of course, agency I'll lead keep to instruct today. I could pose it off some other day, but that would hateful going on the weekend, as well as the persuasion of it fills me amongst dread. So anyway...I'll lead keep a video every bit I motion through the store today because I know you're fascinated amongst my grocery shopping expeditions, as well as you lot won't desire to immature lady a unmarried second! Or mayhap not.
So here's the thing. I went into the sewing room intent on finishing upwards the side yesteryear side 3 colors worth of square-in-a-square pieces when a no-time-like-the-present flash came to me as well as I decided instead to essay my paw at making the applique pieces. As I mentioned inward an before post, I'm going to exercise paw applique on this quilt for no other argue that it seemed similar a adept persuasion at the time. I took a paw applique shape when I was attention social club a spell back. It was taught yesteryear Connie Sue Haidle, who does beautiful paw applique. You tin read my shipping service nearly it correct here. Her method is actually amend suited to Baltimore Album mode quilts. It won't actually locomote for the primal because of the many seams of the mosaic. (You'll lead keep to read my before shipping service to empathize why.) So the method I used yesterday involved a technique described inward this book,
using this product.
The production isn't precisely the i described inward the book. The mass method used a production called "Rinse Away," which I wasn't able to find. It's an embroidery stabilizer that washes away amongst H2O in i lawsuit the embroidery is finished. And frankly, the production I used looks identical to Sulky's Sticky Fabri-Solvy. I'm hoping you lot tin run into its nubby texture inward the paradigm below.
I looked for my parcel of Sticky Fabri-Solvy to compare the two, but couldn't uncovering it anywhere. Frankly, I'm non certainly I lead keep whatever correct at the moment, as well as I was a piddling likewise frightened of Fibber McGee's cupboard to company likewise deeply inside. Anyway...the method inward the mass says to pose 2 sheets of stabilizer together yesteryear activating its rinse-away qualities. This is done yesteryear spritzing it lightly amongst H2O as well as so waiting for it to dry out before proceeding. The production I role was fifty-fifty amend inward that way because it had a pare away gummy backing. I but peeled off the backing as well as carefully stuck 2 sheets together...no H2O or spritzing required.
From there, I traced the applique templates onto the Wash-Away sail as well as so cutting them out. Here, I must caution anyone foolish plenty to essay this using the instructions I'm nearly to plough over you, to-wit: Be certainly to cutting away all the markings every bit you lot cutting out the shape. I had to remake a distich of mine because the markings transferred to the fabric. So, continuing on...I had something that looked similar this.
Then I traced the shapes onto cloth giving them a quarter-inch allowance for folding under.
Then I used a fleck of mucilage stick to stick the Wash-Away to the cloth as well as so clipped all but about inward grooming for folding. (It occurs to me every bit I'm writing this, that I could lead keep stuck i sail to the forepart of another, preserving the gummy backing of the 2nd sail to stick onto the fabric.)
Here's where the
When all was said as well as done, I'd made 6 holly berries, as well as 2 pieces for the optic of the bird. I used spray starch to plough over them some heft, as well as so pressed them flat. The mass specifically states that this method plant best amongst circles that are dime-sized or larger. The holly berries are nearly half-dollar sized, but the yellowish slice was to a greater extent than dime-sized, which agency the dark i is a piddling likewise small. I had the hardest fourth dimension amongst those two.
And but for grins, I pose the dark i on transcend of the yellowish i so you lot could run into how the optic volition look.
I considered sewing all of these to the bird, but I was so traumatized yesteryear that fourth dimension that I was afraid I'd plough over myself PTSD (Post Traumatic Sewing Disorder) if I continued. Instead, I went dorsum to my master intention of sewing together the square-in-a-square blocks. Phew! That was a closed call. By tiffin time, I had all the medium carmine ones sewn together. There are sixteen of those.
It was fourth dimension for tiffin yesteryear then, but I wasn't finished amongst the day's self-flagellation, as well as so I took the 2 optic pieces as well as the tiny piddling sewing needles that Connie Sue Haidle likes amongst me. Connie Sue likes to run upwards her paw applique amongst kimono silk thread, but I had some 100 weight Invisafil inward the correct colors, as well as so I used that.
So intent was I on self-abuse that I sewed the optic pieces on fifty-fifty before eating lunch. Self-abuse is most effective when done on an empty stomach. When I was finished...ta-da! Not likewise shabby.
It's in all likelihood the worst paw applique ever, but since it's the initiatory off fourth dimension I've done this, I tin proudly say it's the best I've e'er done. I'm certainly you'll agree. You exercise agree, don't you? Be careful what you lot say correct now.
Then, I set out the bird, as well as also set out the holly berries. Those haven't been sewn on yet, but here's how it volition look.
And I but happened to hitting the correct solar daytime of the calendar month for
So, I'll live linking upwards at that spot today.
After lunch, I finished upwards sixteen to a greater extent than of the lite carmine square-in-a-square blocks.
And now, I lead keep almost all of them finished.
Today, if I live my trip to the grocery store without getting arrested for murdering someone, I'll brand the lightest red. There are 12 of these.
And so at that spot are the iv corner blocks made from the darkest as well as lightest reds.
When those are finished, I'll live create to run upwards them into borders as well as add together them to the quilt.
Yesterday's activities were all performed nether Smitty's disapproving gaze.
The alone other fiasco yesterday was my runaway starter. When I came upstairs from the sewing room, I caught it but every bit it was initiatory off to run over the top. I stirred it downwards several times yesterday afternoon, but when I left it unattended for a few hours afterwards dinner, it had its way as well as overflowed its jar, making a large mess. Fortunately, it's sitting on a plate. I mightiness live crazy, but I'm non stupid.
It hasn't been fed yet this morning. I mightiness hold off until I instruct abode from the grocery store because I fearfulness it volition misbehave spell I'm gone. I'd loathe to come upwards abode as well as uncovering the entire menage encased inward sourdough starter. I'm non create to bake breadstuff amongst this until Sunday. However, yet some other mortal has told me how much they similar sourdough pancakes, as well as so I'll role a piddling fleck of it on Sat to brand a "sponge" for sourdough pancakes on Sunday. That oughta instruct a ascent out of it. (Ha! Get it?)
Okay...so if it isn't already obvious, the solar daytime was stressful yesterday what amongst unruly sourdough starter as well as bird's eyes...not to bring upwards cat's eyes. Hopefully, today volition instruct a piddling better. Although amongst grocery shopping inward the mix, it's difficult to imagine how that's going to happen. Wish me luck.