There was a petty flake of everything inward my twenty-four hours yesterday, as well as so I have got a lot of pictures for yous today. First, Big Bertha is home. Doesn't she expect all spiffy having spent the by calendar month at the spa? I'd tell I mean value she lost a few pounds, but when I elevator her, I know that isn't true.
Believe me, I hesitated most threading all the cords inward as well as out behind my tabular array as well as through the bars of my desk drawers because I didn't trust at all that she would last working again. But then, having faith, I went ahead, flipped the switch as well as turned her on. Ahhhhhh...a sight for sore eyes.
Only then, I wasn't actually ready to sew, as well as so I turned her off again. Then, changing my mind, I decided I would sew as well as I turned her dorsum on...only to acquire this message. What expletive practise yous suppose I chose for this?
Honest to Pete. This was rattling discouraging. There have got been mechanical adjustments as well as electronic boards replaced, alone to uncovering the same work nevertheless exists. There is a physical care for to clear this code, which I won't locomote into yet again...but I went through the motions as well as and so turned her off again. Then I texted Mike inward frustration (as if he could practise anything most it), as well as and so turned her on again.
Okay...well at to the lowest degree going through the motions (just i time this time) cleared the error, as well as she was ready for sewing. Since as well as so I've had her on as well as off most a dozen times, as well as she's been working fine. It's variety of the equivalent of restarting your figurer when things locomote haywire. If I alone have got to practise it once, I tin alive alongside this. I've lived alongside it for 5 years, so what's some other 5 years, right? I had to have got it repaired this final fourth dimension because I couldn't clear the error code, fifty-fifty later turning the automobile off as well as on to a greater extent than than 50 times. So...we'll see. If it continues working I'll last happy. If not, Mike is going to start talking alongside the folks at Bernina. The repairs were made this fourth dimension according to their ain service bulletin, as well as so if fifty-fifty Bernina doesn't know how to laid upwards it...I don't know. The query becomes, "then what?" For now, it's an opened upwards question, as well as I'll precisely have got to maintain sewing as well as see how it goes.
All right, so alongside that petty intermission for a tantrum, I got to piece of work on the final laid of mini blocks for the Primary Squares mini quilt. The cutting was finished, as well as I was ready to start sewing them together.
One matter I was forgetting to practise was to stair out as well as trim back each petty department equally I sewed it together. They were pretty accurate, but I trimmed petty slivers off where I needed to.
This petty daughter interrupted me to allow me know she was non at all happy alongside her handling this morning. She'd been given a flea handling on the dorsum of her cervix furs...which was a consummate insult...and then, nosotros didn't opened upwards the doors to allow her out. I needed to acquire out at noon, as well as so the kitties were confined to the family the whole live-long day.
I precisely continued on alongside my sewing nether her disapproving eye. And here, I'm demonstrating a big "duh" moment. I had these forked pins inward an Altoids box, as well as they kept getting tangled upwards inward i another. It reminds me of something my dearest father-in-law used to say. If you're erstwhile plenty to shout out upwards when the American Apollo spacecraft linked upwards inward infinite alongside the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, as well as so this volition brand feel to you. It happened inward 1975 (the twelvemonth Mike as well as I were married). I tin recall Mike's dad saying, "Just give them ii wire coat hangers! If they acquire within a mile of i another, those coat hangers volition acquire tangled up!" And so it is alongside the forked pins. These were giving me zip but trouble.
Then, inward my "duh" moment, I remembered this unoccupied pincushion I made when I took the wool felting cast a few years ago, as well as gave them a novel home. Hopefully, they'll give me less problem directly that I tin choose handgrip of precisely one.
And then, it was fourth dimension to acquire out to run across Mike to see the gingerbread exhibit at OMSI. We had a overnice lunch, as well as and so headed downtown, paid our money, as well as went off to uncovering the exhibit. Just follow me...
Okay, hither nosotros are.
I'm going to demo these pictures a petty similar a quilt show. I'll demo yous the sign explaining the gingerbread family entry. These were all built or so the topic of "Egypt." (OMSI has a King Tut exhibit going on correct now.) After the sign, I'll demo yous the entire gingerbread family as well as and so some detailed shots. I'll alone brand a few comments along the way. Except for that, I'll precisely allow yous expect as well as last inward awe equally nosotros were. What these entries lacked inward numbers, they made upwards for inward details.
This adjacent i was our favorite. The lighting was pitiable inward here, as well as so nosotros were using the flashlights on our phones as well as flash photography to see the details hidden inward shadow.
This adjacent i wasn't so much a gingerbread family per se, but it was an entry from Sarah's Cookies. The big shield inward the dorsum is a giant gingerbread cookie.
Smitty as well as Sadie liked this adjacent i best.
Here, yous tin decode the hieroglyphics using the "alphabet" that follows.
This adjacent i seemed to last malfunctioning somehow.
The surface area to the correct surrounded inward bluish frosting was supposed to last lit inside, as well as at that spot were figures within the enclosure. What yous see at that spot is only a reflection of the surrounding environment. It was also bad because I mean value it was crucial to actually agreement the whole piece.
There was a petty flake of a treasure hunt.
Do yous see the narwahl?
New Seasons Market is a local market, as well as this was their entry, hence the sign, "Old Seasons."
If I'm non mistaken, Ra is the Sun god, as well as the i toward the dorsum moved similar the Sun from correct to left over the whole exhibit.
Check out the reindeer antlers as well as cherry olfactory organ on the sphinx. Also, I loved the gingerbread smoke coming from the chimney.
So that was it. There were alone a few entries, but nosotros actually enjoyed the detail.
When nosotros got home, I was surprised to have got received this wonderful handbag from my friend Gail at Shedding the Wolf. The fabrics are so cute, as well as this is a nifty size for a bag. I'll last able to exercise it for so many things. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 i 1000 one thousand give thank yous yous, Gail.
And she remembered the kitties alongside a catnip mouse. It was love at starting fourth dimension sight for Smitty.
Oh...those pheromones...I could lick yous to death!
Sadie was to a greater extent than suspicious.
I don't know, Smitty...just expect at that floozy's feathered tail. Whoever heard of a mouse similar that?
Okay, as well as I left them to their antics as well as finished sewing the petty mini blocks together. These...
as well as these.
The final ones gave me the most trouble. I had i of the petty corner sections sewn together wrong, as well as I sewed it together as well as took it apart 3 times earlier I had it right. They're wonky equally ever. Thanks to everyone who chimed inward alongside tips most this. There were quite a few things I haven't tried. It's a petty belatedly for these, but I'm filing all that novel information away for the adjacent mini I make...and at that spot volition last more. I actually desire to acquire to practise this well.
Here are all the blocks, as well as this is where I left it when I turned Big Bertha off for the final fourth dimension yesterday. Then, I turned her dorsum on i time again to see if she'd last okay...she was. Anyone desire to wager whether I'll acquire the "all clear" or the error code when I plough her on this morning?
The alone other matter I did yesterday was to pass some fourth dimension on the Appalachian Memories block. The Bear's Paw barn quilt is finished now, as well as I've started on the roof of the barn. Still lots of stitching to practise on this one.
So that's where I'm headed next. I have got i housekeeping project to practise today, but starting fourth dimension I'll complete upwards the mini quilt top. Fingers crossed most Big Bertha.