A few other quilting blogs I read (okay stop laughing) that are pretty great reads and fab inspiration - they do this thing called "Work In Progress (WIP) Wednesdays". And I think it's a great idea.
So here's my list of WIPS:
Finish Fred's Mom's Quilt - finish stippling, neaten and bind.
Finish cutting and start to sew D's quilt.
Decide on a pattern and cut K's quilt.
Finish cutting L's quilt. Pattern is decided.
*Actually I'm doing two of L's quilt as they are both awesome patterns and I know two ppl who will love them.
Sew flannelette baby blanket I cut out for Etsy.
And I have one pending order for a king sized quilt; biggest one yet. I think I will send that one out to be quilted; I can do the top no problem but that might be a bit too much for my little Brother sewing machine. I will have to source some local quilting spots.
I'm waiting for a fabric that I ordered online to arrive this week so I can keep working on my Christmas quilts for my family; I have to do Dad's still and one for my other brother; and I know there's a couple that will still come up.
OH and I'd like to finish the two I started for ME at some point. Laugh. Funny how they all got bumped down the list!
SO I have a list of things to do. Not too bad. And in a fit of pique today while fighting with my machine I reorganzied the Quilt Cave. It's a bit more accessible; tomoro I shall finish sorting my fabrics into drawers and actually get stuff off the floor. Eeesh. I may pop over to the storage unit as I *know* I have a gorgeous sky blue cotton somewhere that I can't find. (I may have used it for packing when I moved; that's how I used a lot of my fabric to justify keeping it all...used it for packing around things like lamps, pictures, etc. So just have to find it. No sense in having great fabric if you can't find it to use it.)
Oh I also found a great chunk of muslin that I'm gonna use to make a string/crazy quilt. Yay!
AND something else I forgot! It was Thanksgiving last week; I did a lasagne with some of the sauce I made back in August; and it turned out excellently. I coulda used more cheese, but hey. Everything is better with cheese.
It's bedtime....I promised I wouldn't stay up late...uh oh. I'm in trouble now!
I blame the cat.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Quilt for Fred's Mom ... PT 2
Or, A Frustrating Day of Sewing
GRRRRRRRRR.....
Is there ANYTHING more frustrating than the simplest of things that will NOT work right?? GRRRRR.
The last two days were a sewing trial....a nightmare.
The completed quilt top had 'bubbles' in it. So.......I wanted to fix them, of course.
6 HOURS LATER....after ripping and reripping and resetting and resetting and ironing and re ironing and( GRRRR A TEMPER TANTRUM which involved jumping up and down and much flailing) having to rebuilt two blocks and reposition...the simplest of simple layouts was done. Sort of. There was still a bubble.
I think that there is such a thing as being Too Picky; and that that might be the case yesterday. Today was a new day.
I fixed the last square and all was well. The borders were reattached and ironed.
I brought the quilt upstairs to begin the sandwiching of the backing & batting. In the middle I had it all laid out, taped down and ready to roll up and head downstairs to begin the quilting process.
I had gone into the kitchen to help Ma with something and then returned back to the living room where
GRRRRRRRRR.....
Is there ANYTHING more frustrating than the simplest of things that will NOT work right?? GRRRRR.
The last two days were a sewing trial....a nightmare.
The completed quilt top had 'bubbles' in it. So.......I wanted to fix them, of course.
6 HOURS LATER....after ripping and reripping and resetting and resetting and ironing and re ironing and( GRRRR A TEMPER TANTRUM which involved jumping up and down and much flailing) having to rebuilt two blocks and reposition...the simplest of simple layouts was done. Sort of. There was still a bubble.
I think that there is such a thing as being Too Picky; and that that might be the case yesterday. Today was a new day.
I fixed the last square and all was well. The borders were reattached and ironed.
I brought the quilt upstairs to begin the sandwiching of the backing & batting. In the middle I had it all laid out, taped down and ready to roll up and head downstairs to begin the quilting process.
I had gone into the kitchen to help Ma with something and then returned back to the living room where
MY QUILT WAS RUNNING UP THE STAIRS.........GAH!!!!
My mother's cat had somehow gotten underneath my quilt sandwich and had pulled it free of the tape. He had freaked himself out because he couldn't see and started to run amuck in my quilt. GRRRR. He made it up the stairs and got himself free; and I got the quilt back downstairs, retaped it and pin basted it. THEN I rolled it up and headed backdownstairs to quilt it.
AND for some reason....the stupid machine decided today was the day to give me more grief than was really necessary over tension. Sigh> The eyelashing under the quilt was OFF the Freakin' charts.
BUT....I got it worked out. AND I got to watch "State Fair' and "South Pacific" today.
But most importantly....The Quilt is quilted. YAY! And later I have to quilt in the borders, neaten the edges, bind it and VOILA! Zee quilt vill be done. Woot!
.............then..........start on ANOTHER commissioned quilt which is a SURPRISE for someone who I can't mention! Just in case. *grin*.
Here's the Quilt; the block pattern was "springtime".
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