The kitties together with I were upward early on this morning. There's quite a flake on the agenda for today, together with it's doubtful I'll larn it all done. Starting early on volition help. As for yesterday...not also much novel nether the sun, but I decided to motion the hoop on the Appalachian Memories block. Except for only about lines at the bottom, my hoop was pretty much filled up, together with I wanted to larn the tree on the right.
You mightiness think I was mulling over what stitch to role for the trees. The whole slice (pretty much) is stitched inwards stalk stitch. The branches of the tree form of called out for wing stitch, together with thence that's what I did. It looks good. The "trunk" of the tree is even thence stitched inwards stalk stitch.
Okay, good telephone band me a liar because at that spot genuinely was something novel nether the sun. When I asked for tips almost making the mini blocks for the Wonky Windowpanes, my friend Carolyn suggested this tool called a "clapper" for getting the blocks to prevarication flat. It's a tool used yesteryear tailors to larn a dainty crease. I've been spritzing them amongst water, which tends to distort them. Carolyn suggested a dry out iron, together with thence xxx seconds nether the glossa to tame those recalcitrant seams.
So I visited my friend Amazon.com together with did only about reading together with shopping.
There were quite a few to direct from, but I settled on this one. I got to travel making the backgrounds for the Chicken Buffet blocks.
So these large four-patches were sewn together together with pressed. You tin run across inwards the icon below that the seam even thence form of wants to stand upward up. It's non a large bargain on a 12-inch block, but on those teeny tiny blocks for a mini, it is form of a problem. Okay, thence this seemed similar a proficient house to examination out the clapper, together with thence I ironed it over again (dry iron...the steam component on my Fe stopped working almost half dozen months after nosotros received it equally a marriage ceremony gift inwards 1975).
Then I rested the glossa on come about of the seam together with allow it laid for xxx seconds. When I removed it...well, lookie there!
Cool! That only makes me desire to shove everything off my sewing infinite together with start only about other mini. Maybe I volition a footling after inwards the month. Thanks for that tip, Carolyn!
Instead, I stuck amongst the master conception together with did all the fusing for ii Chicken Buffet blocks. These are blocks nine together with 10 of the 12 blocks I need. The showtime i is "Stewed Chicken."
The minute is "Chicken Soup."
I'm doing these inwards tandem since the top-stitching requires multiple changes of thread colors, together with it makes feel to practise them both at the same time. Now I direct maintain the auto fix for top-stitching. This is why I was waiting for Big Bertha to come upward habitation from the spa. I genuinely similar this human foot for doing blanket stitch. The human foot on Pfelicity is venture plastic, together with I tin run across the applique through it, but non equally clearly equally amongst this opened upward foot. Oh yes, together with the genu life makes my life thence much easier.
It was getting piece of cake inwards the day, together with thence I alone got equally far equally the spoon on the Chicken Soup block. I'll larn only about to a greater extent than done on this today.
I'm hoping to larn these finished today. In add-on to the top-stitching, at that spot is also only about manus together with auto embroidery, together with thence they aren't fifty-fifty closed at this point. Also on today's agenda, I'm making together with canning only about Christmas Jam. I'm hopeful that won't direct maintain upward also much time. Also, I'd similar to larn the tree decorated, but that is lowest priority for now.
So, earlier I sign off for the day, let's only banking concern jibe inwards on the amaryllis, shall we? Here's the moving painting I took 48 hours ago.
Here's how it looks this morning. It's grown almost ii inches...or an inch a day...amazing!
It's Sunday, together with that way pancakes for breakfast. As my begetter used to say, my large ones are eating upward my footling ones, together with thence I'm only going to larn only about batter mixed upward together with plop those puppies on the griddle. What's on tap for your Sunday?