Today I sewed more four patches. Unfortunately, I forgot they are directional with a dark spool in the upper left corner, so I have some seam ripping to do. While I was sewing, Molly came to visit. I thought she was far enough away until her tail swept by the moving needle. I now have to spend the next month or so arguing with myself about whether she did it deliberately, Given my frightened reaction, she will most certainly try it again.
Monday, October 31, 2022
More Spools
Today I sewed more four patches. Unfortunately, I forgot they are directional with a dark spool in the upper left corner, so I have some seam ripping to do. While I was sewing, Molly came to visit. I thought she was far enough away until her tail swept by the moving needle. I now have to spend the next month or so arguing with myself about whether she did it deliberately, Given my frightened reaction, she will most certainly try it again.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Spooling Around
Yesterday I pulled out the spool project, took inventory and started sorting. I went through and ironed four patches with points that meet (and happily only had to send five back for reworking). Then I sorted two patches and singles. My plan is to have darks and lights on alternate diagonals throughout the quilt, but value is relative. So I'm trying to make good decisions in the early stages, but won't lay the blocks out until I have eight by eights. (Each block is 2 inches unfinished).
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Attention Deficit Disorder
A certain cat with attention deficit disorder is not happy with my taking blogging responsibilities from Buddy. She is using my arm as her head rest in a determined effort to make typing as difficult as sewing and that she continues to have 100% of my attention.
That said, I am now using an updated version of Photoshop Elements and that seems to have taken care of the weird discoloration I was getting with the other photo program. So that is making things easier. Also, I remember the keyboard shortcuts which reduces Molly Cat disruption.
And yes I am continuing to fuss with the Shards quilt (from Kaffe Fassett). When I put it up on the design wall again I found I was two blocks short...then I made some replacements for blocks that were too dark...or to yellow. And I now realize that I prefer making the shard blocks more than the quilt itself. Oh well...
At the Clark County Quilters' show, this quilt was hanging next to the sheep quilt. The sheep were not too happy and thought that OCD quilts should be hung in a separate area. I tried to reassure them that fine workmanship is not contagious.
Friday, October 28, 2022
Major Blogger Glitch Revealed
As I'm sure you know, Buddy took over responsibilities for this blog early in September...at exactly the same time of the last shown blog post. Every morning at 4am, he reports to me about what a great job he is doing and whether he wants payment in treats, toys or cuddles. Today I noticed that not a single one of his posts can be found. Apparently, he thinks that all he has to do is think the blog post for it to exist. So until blogger overcomes this minor coding issue, I'm going to go back to the old-fashioned luddite way.