Well, the Mrs. Quilty box has arrived and after a while of hoping to set up my machine and tools in the guest room, I have given up and again, am sewing on the kitchen table. The guest room is occupied at the moment, so, kitchen it is. I really hate lugging everything to the table and then cleaning it all up again, plus I'm on a time frame of meals, so if I really get into something, I have to quit in the middle of it. Well, that shouldn't be forever. Just a little inconvenience now. Besides - I love having guests!
I finally have my first square finished! I did a little hand quilting back more than 50 years ago, but that's all I was ever exposed to. Mrs. Quilty wrote everything out as well as had illustrations and some very helpful videos to guide the beginner and believe it or not, I actually got my first quilt block done! It took me hours and I measured many times before I cut, ironed and followed ALL instructions and it actually looks a lot like the example! Well, there are a few mistakes that make it my own, and my perfectionist personality wanted to take it out - but I left it there so that I could remember my mistakes and how I improved (or didn't) as time goes on.
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| Box1 - Project 1 |
So, it's far from perfect and the square needs a good pressing yet. I did a preliminary one while sewing and see some areas that I stretched the fabric wonky. But it is finished.
I sat down to do the second project yesterday - but decided to do a jar gripper instead. I had a little kit here and wanted to make a badly needed one. I got all the lines drawn and pressed and was so excited to have something quick done, but for the life of me, I couldn't understand how the directions were written to miter the corners from the opposite side, turn and then slip the grippy material in. I'm hoping I'll find a tutorial for it. I've done a search on jar grippies, but none are done like this. Yes, I could just do it like a quilt, folding the backing over the grippy material then sewing, but I really want to try this new way of doing the grippy. I finally put it aside and cut out the fabric for my next project, a scrappy type potholder. I found when cutting the small squares, that I had and awful time with the ruler slipping, so I went online and bought some non-slip grips to put on back of the ruler. They should be here tomorrow. That will make life easier, I hope!
We are again getting snow - the flakes are big and coming down gently. I love big snowflakes - they are gorgeous and makes everything look so appealing and snowglobe like. I need to enjoy this snow for next week temps go up to the 50s and rain is in the forecast for the end of next week.
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| You might be able to see the snowflakes in front of the evergreens. |
