QUILTING
I've really hesitated (STRONGLY) about showing what all I did this past week - at least as far as the quilting was concerned!
First of all - I didn't touch my Celtic Solstice quilt until today - and may hold on this until next week! So far it is still at this stage....
What I DID do - was work on the Baby Quilt #1 - and was sooooooooooo pleased with my progress - until I flipped it over! Which is when I saw little pinches of fabric that had scooted in there! Grrrr! Yeah - I know - the Seam ripper is my friend - but honestly I didn't WANT to have to use the seam ripper at this time! And yes - I DID smooth everything out first - and DID work in the center first! Problem was I kept running directly into my safety pins - which I had to move - and, of course, that's when everything scooted! Oh joy!
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Pinch #1 - and honestly, I COULD have taken a more blurry picture!
Really! |
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| Pinch #2 - and if it had a been me that was pinched like this - It would have HURT! |
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| Pinch Number 3 - drat it anyway! |
I would like to say that I finished this - and I may yet - today! I would also like to say that I got all the rest of the little projects all ready. Uh huh! Like.... NOT!
I DID get the little go with bag ready to go with all the various projects for Open Sew. Problem was - I got there - and.... I hadn't packed my seam ripper, scissors, slicer, screwdriver, regular needle shank (I still had the walking foot on!),or any of a dozen other things! I WAS fortunate though, THIS time I did remember to pack my machine cord and pedal! AND I packed the machine! Also packed rulers - which I couldn't use (no slicer, no scissors!) I think it is time I figure out WHERE I put that little kit and just pack it up and KEEP it in my go-with rolling cart!
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Cinnamon Sticks - needed the scissors!
Needed regular foot and needle! And thread! |
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Bow-da-cious! Doing connector blocks (folded corners) -
sure didn't happen Fri night! no scissors! |
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| QOV - needs that outside border. Slicer left home! Drat it! |
So - this meant that the Cinnamon Sticks placemat, additional border for the QOV didn't happen. I was able to do 2 blocks that I have been scared of since I got the Underground Railroad Pattern to begin with - namely, the Wagon wheel (mine is lumpy - but that happened anyway to a lot of wagon wheels - which were wood - and lopsided - and which broke at inopportune times!) and the Drunkard's Path (strangely enough the circles were almost completely round - should have sewn those on before the Wagon wheel!)
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"Wheels" to be quartered for Drunkards path!
Actually am pleased with how these turned out! |
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| Wagon wheel - can we say off center and LUMPY???? |
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| Borders around the Underground Railroad note. |
Still, there are hours left in the day - so I think I will work on finishing out the Drunkard's Path into a block, finish up the Cinnamon Sticks and I think maybe that final border on the QOV! THEN if I can - I will sandwich some of the table runners I have floating around so that I can quilt them this week!