The weather condition didn't halt me from driving into town for my monthly pedicure yesterday. When I went downward only a few hundred feet, I constitute only moisture pavement in addition to rain. At our place, snowfall vicious for a adept business office of the day, but nosotros got only about breaks of sunshine too. I had a few errands to run inwards town. By the fourth dimension I got home, I was exhausted from ii days out on the town in addition to likewise many people. The afternoon was spent napping.
Still, I had only about fourth dimension toward the cease of the twenty-four hr menstruation to teach serious well-nigh thread. As I mentioned inwards a previous post, I'd pulled well-nigh one-half a dozen spools inwards training for quilting the flamingos, but I hadn't made whatever clear-cut decisions yet. So I spent only about fourth dimension laying them out. Y'all actually liked the lighter of the ii variegated bobbin threads, in addition to I had to handgrip it was the correct choice.
There was solely i pinkish variegated for the pinkish flamingo, in addition to I nonetheless intend that's the correct choice. It could also survive a enterprise pink, but alongside therefore many colors inwards the flamingo, I sort of similar the variegated spool.
For the orangish flamingo (whose torso takes upwards a adept per centum of the quilt), I wanted a dainty brilliant orange. Variegated threads don't actually piece of job hither because the variegation goes from orangish to yellow...at to the lowest degree on the spools I have. So I'm looking at a enterprise orange. I intend the i on the bottom is likewise brilliant in addition to saturated, in addition to therefore I similar the exceed i better.
But then, what well-nigh this variegated? I intend it's likewise dark.
There volition survive a lot of dissimilar thread colors on top. Going dorsum in addition to forth betwixt majestic in addition to white, I sort of similar this majestic variegated for the eyes of the flamingos. Mainly, I'll only survive adding only about details inwards the eyes.
I'll travel white for the background, although later taking this picture, I decided to switch out the YLI thread for a lighter-weight Aurifil.
Also, I'll survive using dark to add together only about details to the beaks. The orangish flamingo also has a reddish tongue, in addition to I mightiness create upwards one's heed to travel a matching thread there.
I haven't made whatever decisions well-nigh the border yet, but I mightiness travel the same variegated used inwards the bobbin...or peradventure the orange...or peradventure the white...or peradventure the pink. As y'all tin see, I'm completely undecided there, but something volition come upwards to me. I don't fifty-fifty know what to quilt there, but it mightiness cease upwards only existence only about zig-zaggy lines. (Zig-zaggy: technical quilting term.)
Any quilting sweat ever begins alongside the needs of the cat.
Some treats, if y'all don't mind.
From there, I grabbed a well-used practise slice in addition to worked on setting the tension in addition to only edifice only about musculus memory. The flamingos volition survive quilted all inwards feathers. Feathers = birds, right?
So the exceed tension looks pretty good, but how does it hold off from the back? Not that good. I'll have got to do a piffling to a greater extent than piece of job there.
Also, I tested out a motif I'd similar to travel on the white background, mainly to run across if I tin depict it. And it looks pretty good. I'm sort of jazzed well-nigh that. It'll all survive done inwards white for the background, but this makes me intend of birds in addition to clouds at the same time. Anything I tin depict on the inaugural off essay is a bonus.
So, therefore I gulped difficult in addition to did a pocket-size plumage on a piffling sliver of the pinkish flamingo. That looks pretty adept to me.
I'm nonetheless making tiny adjustments to teach the tension right, but it's pretty close.
So, I'm hoping to teach good along alongside this today. Once I teach started (a big hurdle), therefore there's no stopping me. As alongside Hocuspocusville, I take away to teach it to car sewing the binding, in addition to I tin do the hand-sewing on the road.
In yesterday's mail, I received the piffling 75-yard spool of #8 Perle cotton wool I ordered for the embroidery sampler. Pay no attending to the quilt inwards the background. It only happened to survive lying there. It has no human relationship to the thread whatsoever, although I heard them claiming to survive cousins.
This projection volition survive going S alongside us, but I wanted to survive certain the thread would work, in addition to that I had the correct size needle, in addition to therefore I gave it a piffling examination on the quilt.
Well...I don't know well-nigh you, but I intend that's going to survive real cute. I'll likely start over alongside this because I'm non happy alongside how I knotted the kickoff stitch. I'll solely take away well-nigh 10 yards of this thread to quilt the whole piece, in addition to therefore I have got enough to piece of job with. I'm thinking I'll bury the business of stitching correct at the border of the quilt therefore that the thread ends volition survive caught upwards inwards the binding when I sew together that on. (I promise that makes sense.)
So it's a heavy quilting day. The flamingos should survive good along past times day's end. I missed my embroidery yesterday because I was sewing the binding on L is for Love. That's where I'm headed next. It's nonetheless snowing outside. It doesn't seem correct that we're going to boundary ahead inwards only a dyad of days. The weather condition exterior is stuck on December.