It's going to endure a keen day. Wanna know how I know? Well...two things: (1) It's an NBS solar daytime (Nothing But Sewing). But to a greater extent than importantly, (2) is the morning's inchy. It contained the dreaded bullion stitch in addition to I DID IT. (Cue the band playing Stars in addition to Stripes Forever!) So, create y'all wanna come across it?
This could non accept been accomplished without my real helpful stitching cat.
When I wrote yesterday's post, I hadn't withal done the inchy from yesterday, thus hither it is.
As I mentioned, I was heading out to the grocery store. It snowed most of the solar daytime in addition to it was coming downward inwards keen fatty flakes when I left the house.
With the temperature good to a higher identify freezing, zero stuck, in addition to most of the remaining snowfall has been washed away.
When I came downstairs to leave, I establish my stitching truthful cat comfortably ensconced on the dining room table, which is a big no-no. The kitties wonder why nosotros position quilts on the tables if they aren't supposed to slumber on them. It's real confusing.
There were hardly whatever people at the grocery store yesterday. It's the get-go trip inwards months that I haven't needed to kill anyone acre there. H5N1 refreshing change, to endure sure.
When I got home, at that spot were several deliveries at the door, including this 1 from The Fabric Shack.
Usually when I store for stuff online, I store at Fabric.com. I've ever had adept luck amongst them, in addition to I mean value y'all \]ettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt===============] (<-------an interjection from Smitty).
Ahem. As I was saying, I mean value y'all larn costless transportation afterward spending $35. Also, I larn an ebate from them. Their website was impossibly slowly that day, in addition to stuff shopping waits for no one. Am I correct virtually that? So, anyway, I ended upwards at The Fabric Shack. They stuffed about thirteen yards of stuff into that picayune priority postal service envelope, in addition to it flare-up during shipping. I sent them the motion-picture exhibit amongst a proposition non to pack it thus tightly side past times side time. (Always the smart aleck.)
So here's what I got: The get-go 1 is to endure a dorsum for Matthew's quilt. He asked for a "gold" back, in addition to I liked this gilt batik. It's already pre-washed in addition to gear upwards to endure cutting in addition to sewn into a backing for the Rainbow Jubilee quilt.
Also, equally long equally I was shopping, I got this stuff for a backing on the Snow Globes quilt. It has both metallic element silvery in addition to metallic element gilt on it, in addition to thus it seemed similar a adept selection for that quilt amongst thus much sparkle floss.
Also, this "ivory" background stuff for the side past times side novel embroidery project.
H5N1 few of y'all accept noticed that several of my embroidery projects are coming to a close, in addition to thus I'm already preparing for the novel ones that volition fill upwards inwards the opened upwards spots on my embroidery trip the low-cal fantastic toe card. The stuff to a higher identify volition endure for the background on this novel projection from Anni Downs at Hatched in addition to Patched. It's called "Dancing Chickens in addition to Flying Pigs."
I forget where I get-go saw this quilt...probably on Pinterest...but thus I knew I had to larn inwards correct now! So, that's my side past times side project. Supplies are accumulating.
After petting the stuff for a while, I got to plow over off quilting Hocuspocusville. I spent quite a fighting of fourth dimension messing amongst the tension. I was getting eyelashes on all the "humps" for this insy-outsy motif inwards the nine-patch blocks. As it turns out, I had dissimilar weight threads for the plow over in addition to bottom. It worked okay for the spider webs, but it was a no-go for the nine-patches. I ended upwards winding a bobbin amongst the 40-weight plow over thread in addition to my problems went away.
Here's how that looks from the back.
All the total blocks amongst spider webs are finished now, in addition to I'm simply getting started amongst the nine-patches. I promise to larn this see finished today, but that powerfulness endure overly optimistic. We'll see.
Also inwards yesterday's mail, I received these ii picayune hand-painted buttons from Australia.
Recently, I tread where I should never tread...into Lynette Anderson's online store. There, I establish this picayune Bunny Garden embroidery pattern, in addition to how could I resist? I purchased the 2nd download,
in addition to then, I noticed the buttons. Well. I couldn't real good create all that stitching without the buttons, similar a shot could I? I knew you'd understand.
Yesterday evening, Miss Sadie had the talk audacity to larn on plow over of the china cabinet, something Smitty has claimed equally his...where he tin claim govern of all he tin survey. The noyve of some cats.
Of course, a rumble ensued inwards which the big truthful cat got a picayune equally good petroleum amongst the picayune truthful cat until Mom in addition to Dad had to lower the boom. Later, he sat at the plow over of the stairs waiting for the all-clear sign.
Life amongst cats is never dull. No, never.
Okay, thus similar I said...it's a solar daytime of NBS. Those kinds of days are best started early. What's on your agenda today?