It
was a dark and stormy night-
Not really. I just had no good title for this post. Two
weekends ago I taught a class at my LCS. The roads were awful on my way in. Thank
you to my hubby to driving me! Some of you may have heard about the 100+ car
pile-up in Denver. Thank goodness I was north of that and did not know about it
until I got home! My 2 students were lovely and totally made the trip
worthwhile! One drove a lot further than I did so I am glad I did not cancel
the class! They made me laugh the whole 2 hours, and yes they even got some
blocks done!
When I got home I decided to get those little bags done that
I had all cut out. They came out great-and the pattern was perfect. The one
thing I didn’t do that the patterns said to do was be careful when cutting the
tape measure so it doesn’t retract back into itself after the cuts were made.
Ooops! Now I need to get my darn screwdriver out and tear the tape measure
apart. I got the dumbass award of the day for that move!
Then I moved on to another table runner. I am using the
Quick Curve Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful. The pattern for this runner is
included in the ruler. I LOVE that!
As I was sewing the parts together Friday night for the white
background version it dawned on me that I had a hell of a lot of print pieces
left. I cut exactly double the amount of main fabric I needed. Good lord- some
days I wonder why I even bother. So- a design opportunity presented itself.
Since I had all of those main parts cut I decided to make a 2nd
runner using a dark background instead. And since I was going to the quilt shop
for class anyway I might as well grab another 2/3 yard of fabric and finish it.
I love it when a plan comes together!!!! I really like the dark version-what do
you think?
After I got these done, I decided to pull out my Not Jo
Morton top I have been working on. I have several friends that love
reproductions. I am more of a bright
fabric person in case you all couldn’t tell J. During one shopping excursion with my repro
friends we all spotted this book and fell in love with the cover quilt.
I even thought out of the box for once and wondered what it
would look like in batiks? So, I bought some background fabric, and maybe a few other pieces – hehe- and
got going. I decided to do the center block first- this way it would be done
and the only applique left would be little blocks. I also decided since I have
18 gazillion other hand projects going I would machine applique this instead of
hand applique. That way it may get done by the time my 23 year old retires. The
center block is totally done as well as 3 other blocks.
I cut out and ironed
down 13 more blocks this weekend and now only have 5 more to go! (Thanks to my
friend Lexie who needed a project at quilt retreat and drew all of my blocks
onto Heat n Bond for me- you ROCK!) I now can see the light at the end of the
tunnel! I am even hiding all of my thread tails the proper way- according to
Sue Nickels anyway. I was fortunate enough to take a class from her and WOW!
Instead of rushing my sewing I am trying to take my time and do things to make
my projects look more professional instead of like a kindergarten kid did it.
No offense to any kindergartners reading this blog- you kids are amazing!!
And that was the way my Sunday ended. I am probably the only
person in the USA that did not watch the Oscars- The Walking Dead was on and
Darryl was on the Talking Dead so there was no way in hell I was missing that!
Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend as well!
Thanks for reading-
Court
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