Postby Harriet » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:28 pm
Nancy, you said in PWYC some of your grandchildren were going to their mom's. Does that mean you won't have as much time with them as usual? I know they would miss creative time with you.
BookSaver, about the difference in fabric, it turns out this second purchase is lighter at the selvage edges than in the middle of the fabric. The first was the same all over. This is a Moda with a 4-digit number to check to be sure it's the same. It's a marbled fabric of mostly blue with a little white. It's not a big deal in some ways, but I did work with it a little extra to avoid obvious differences at seam lines.
Finished the center of the baby quilt today. Only have the borders left to do, which I might be able to get to tomorrow. I'm 2 days late on my sewing schedule I posted last week, but that's not so bad - I knew it was optimistic. I'd have been farther along but I remade a block today. I had made the wing section of an airplane block wrong and even though it worked out into a block it was too high, with one wing almost to an edge and it was driving me crazy. I'm much happier with it now.
Working with the baby rick-rack to make kite tails was a little stressful. I used a disappearing marker to mark where the tails would go, but topstitching the rick-rack was slow going and the ink kept disappearing! I'd have to stop halfway and go over the lines again so I wouldn't lose them. Finally by the last one I learned to go over the line and make it dark the first time! At one point the phone rang and there was no way I could answer, staring at that disappearing line! I needed to open a new package of the rick-rack for the last one, and it seemed stiffer. So I ironed it with steam and then it was pliable and easy to curve.