It's fourth dimension to pick out a winner for my most recent giveaway of the 20 Little Patchwork Quilts book. Mr. Random was roused from his Dominicus morning time sleep long plenty to announce:
#46--Stitches
Congratulations, Stitches! I've sent you lot an email, thence depository fiscal establishment gibe your inbox. And thank you lot to all of you lot who played along inward in conclusion week's giveaways. Your form comments were really much appreciated.
As for yesterday, in that place was a fiddling to a greater extent than productivity on the sewing front. I fifty-fifty did a fiddling housework. First, I finished stitching all that I could on the Appalachian Memories quilt...
together with thence I was cook to deed the hoop to the left. There was merely a fiddling chip of grass to stitch on the lowest role of the piece.
I stitched that first, which allowed me to seat my hoop to embrace the in conclusion of it.
There's all the same quite a chip to create on this, together with thence it's doubtful that I'll complete it today. Sometimes I surprise myself though, thence who's to say?
After that I sewed together the strips for the in conclusion blocks of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Here are the browns I chose for December.
After they were trimmed up, I set them out amongst their dark together with white corner triangles. If you lot stimulate got sudden eyes, you lot mightiness notice those 2 at the travel past times together with inward the middle are facing the incorrect way. I had to stitch i of them onto the brownish slice earlier I discovered it. It gave my lazy seam ripper something to do.
When they were finished they looked similar this:
And thence I was really curious to encounter the whole affair set out. It's pretty large now, together with difficult to instruct a expert picture. Nevertheless, I intend you lot tin encounter how it's going to await when it's all sewn into a flimsy. There are no borders, together with thence what you lot encounter hither is what the finished quilt volition await like.
I desire to rearrange the blocks a little. I had them stacked to seek to instruct a expert mix, but you lot tin encounter that the blues together with aquas all ended upward inward rows together. Also, the calorie-free together with nighttime greens are side past times side. I'll shuffle them roughly a fiddling earlier they're sewn together.
I took a intermission thence together with did some housework...anything to avoid the dreaded Wind inward the Whiskers quilting. It occurred to me equally I contemplated my hereafter that the affair most misfortunate nearly this was this department where the iris applique had come upward all apart. I don't actually know why this didn't stick at to the lowest degree equally good equally its neighbors. I tin alone gauge in that place was something incorrect amongst the fusible I used here. These pieces were in all probability all fused at the same fourth dimension together with from the same department of Heat 'n Bond. I've never had such a drastic failure before, but in that place you lot go.
It was all pinned together to avoid losing all the pieces, but i was already lost when I discovered this disaster. Enter the production below...606, cousin of 505. This production has saved my bacon to a greater extent than than once. It's a spray on fusing medium. I set downward some large sheets of parchment together with thence carefully sprayed the pieces that came loose. Also, I remade the middle department of the iris that was missing.
And, voila! All improve now. With that repaired, I'm feeling much improve nearly this project, although I'm all the same dreading it...just amongst a fiddling less misery mixed in.
Also, since my in conclusion session amongst it, I've discovered a smaller needle for my mid-arm machine. I can't recall what had me reading the manual for the machine in conclusion fourth dimension around, but I noticed to my consummate surprise that 80/12 size needles were available. And thence I checked inward amongst my expert friend Amazon together with constitute some there. This volition assist amongst the size of the needle holes left behind equally I stitch roughly the edges of those batik applique pieces.
So at i time I stimulate got the novel smaller needle loaded onto the machine, threaded, together with poised to start quilting this morning. I suppose I could stimulate got started correct thence together with there, but why create a dreaded business today when you lot tin position it off for i to a greater extent than day? It's my life's motto, together with I've survived since the 14th Century. No argue to alter now. Am I correct nearly that?
My truthful cat agrees. We decided to accept payoff of the dry out weather condition together with fill upward the plane feeders. He's a willing partner inward anything related to birds.
That's a handsome hunka mancat there...a veritable stud muffin...wouldn't you lot agree?
So no to a greater extent than messing around...it's going to live all quilting all the fourth dimension today. I'm hoping to live good along finishing upward Wind inward the Whiskers past times day's end. But first, Dominicus morning time pancakes. If I stimulate got my way, it's going to live a expert twenty-four hours hither at the Three Cats Ranch. Be gone amongst you, thread tension issues!