Postby Harriet » Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:23 pm
Nancy, I'll share with dd25 how you do the hot pads because she does knit - just is quite a beginner. She knitted a beautiful hat/toboggan but somehow made it too small for an adult. I told her to quick give it to dgdC while weather is still cold and just decide that she meant to do that! She'll learn! We got to go to a new yarn shop and dd found some lovely, variegated yarn. From the yarn from the shop, she is trying to make a crochet neck scarf in a simple circle that can come up around your head. Maybe it's called a cowl?
I used my phone's flashlight feature to help me squint and see the turned-under edges of the quilt top's center as I sewed it down today. With light from overhead and also the machine's light above, the shadows of the foot make it hard for me to see something tedious. This was dark fabric, so that didn't help. I could grab the phone when I needed and aim the light sideways to make sure I wasn't sewing off the edge. I just kept going an inch or so at a time and must have lifted the feed dogs 50 times. But it's right and doesn't need anything ripped out.
So, the top has grown to 36 inches so far, and all that is finished.
Counting on the next steps not being quite so difficult. Next is making the same unit over and over again for a while.
The bad pin prick is healing well. It's been a long time since I got so stuck with a pin that I bled that much. What happened was that I swept my hand over the fabric to smooth it out thinking I'd put all the pins in the same direction. Nope! Not doing that again!