It was an unplanned NBS twenty-four hr menstruum yesterday. Earlier, I'd planned to practice or hence canning, but together with then I got hence involved amongst my sewing that I couldn't tear myself away. And together with then it only got likewise belatedly to start canning. What a shame because yous know I've barely done whatever canning this season. (Cough)
The 4th department for And On that Farm was awaiting me. I'd entirely fused the eyes, but the pieces for the olfactory organ together with rima oris were laid upward to go. In pretty brusque order...
The kitties were outside, but came flight inwards when it started raining. For them, it's a piddling similar when I was inwards junior high schoolhouse together with our PE cast would endure canceled because of rain. Instead, we'd receive got a piddling trip the lite fantastic toe inwards the gym. (This is the materials of nightmares, if yous inquire me.) So, if they can't endure exterior playing, they come upward inwards together with play inwards their basement clubhouse. We unopen upward all outdoor access, together with and then opened the clubhouse for them. We receive got to practice this hence nosotros know where they are...inside or outside. Smitty sentiment they could practice a piddling hunting inwards the clubhouse. Sometimes in that location endure mousies inwards there. Somehow mice arrive from the outside, but we've never been able to figure out how. Since the kitties discovered what a great indoor playground this is, mousies receive got ceased to endure a problem.
C'mon Sadie! Let's become on mouse patrol.
Nah, Smitty...I intend nosotros already cotched all the mousies inwards the clubhouse.
I'm only gonna prevarication downwards hither together with intend on it...think, think, think...there must endure mousies somewhere.
Let's hunt inwards mom's sewing closet. There's weird materials inwards here.
Oh, skillful idea, Sadie...let me see...
Are yous finding anything?
I'll only hold back correct here. If yous uncovering anything, endure certain to convey it to me for, um, inspection.
Clearly, I was going to larn a lot of aid for my day's sewing.
One of the things that makes these McKenna Ryan patterns hence hard to locomote on is that the placement diagram is of piddling role i time yous start adding pieces to the design. As pieces are added, the diagram is no longer visible, together with hence it isn't much role for genuinely "placing" things. I've resorted to making wax newspaper templates that I could concur over the overstep of the design, but that's variety of a hurting too. There are a lot of lines to depict in, together with hence it takes or hence fourth dimension to brand one.
Then yesterday, I had a stroke of genius. Or perhaps it was only or hence other "duh" moment...you'll receive got to tell me which side of the split it's on. I picked upward the whole thing, pattern, pressing sheet, cloth pieces together with seat it on my lite box hence that I could meet the placement diagram through the fabric. In the pic below, I've moved the applique slice only a piddling hence yous tin meet the line.
Well...with all the McKenna Ryan materials I've done, I don't know why I didn't intend of that sooner. It certain made this procedure a whole lot easier.
After I'd done the eyes, nose, together with mouth, it was fourth dimension to brand the sheep's torso together with her correct ear.
Then I finished off the left ear, together with it was fourth dimension to add together the eyes.
And together with then I added the residue of the face.
And the olfactory organ together with mouth...
And the sheep was finished. I only needed to fuse it to the background...
Only first, I had to add together the lines defining the wooden boards behind...
And that department was finished. Here are all the sections I receive got for this hence far.
So here's where I could receive got fired upward the canning kettle...nah.
Instead, I had plenty fourth dimension to larn started on or hence other quilt block for a dissimilar project. See, I receive got or hence rules for myself inwards the sewing room. At the commencement of each month, I initiatory of all receive got to goal my monthlies, which include:
- OMG
- Tuxedo Tales (since it's a block of the month, together with I locomote on to endure on the correct month...purely coincidental)
- Rainbow Scrap Challenge
- Finishing or hence other row for the Shop Hop quilt
- Chicken Buffet
- And on that Farm
- Raining Cats together with Dogs
- Mulligan Stew
So amongst all of that said, I was to the house where I could locomote on something "free," together with I decided to motion to the side yesteryear side UFO on my list: Raining Cats together with Dogs. I'm on the eighth of 10 blocks for this...this one:
The initiatory of all stride is to brand a background...
And amongst that done, I was able to goal all the fusing.
Now I withdraw to top-stitch the pieces, goal both manus together with car embroidery, together with add together a few piddling embellishments to goal it off. But today is a novel month. I'll goal this block, but together with then I'll endure dorsum to working on my monthlies again. (Sound of whip cracking.)
With that inwards mind, it's fourth dimension to pick out a projection for October's OMG.
With summertime gardening together with canning chores winding down, I intend I tin laissez passer on myself a litttle to a greater extent than of a challenge this month. My goal is to plow the completed blocks for Bag Ladies of the Fat Quarter Club into a flimsy. The concluding of the blocks was finished concluding December, together with hence it's high time, I'd say. I haven't spent a lot of fourth dimension thinking almost the layout for this, but I practice similar this scrappy layout from the designer.
I similar all the color, together with the sentiment of doing away amongst or hence scraps is rattling appealing too.
Today's agenda includes getting the Lycopersicon esculentum jam canned, every bit I'd planned to practice yesterday. And together with then I'll goal off the block for Raining Cats together with Dogs. That won't receive got all day, though. Maybe in that location volition endure fourth dimension to larn started on i of the "monthlies."
Happy October, Everybody! Bring on the candy corn!