Where I was up to last week
its again been a week where I have had to go out several times, I love just been at home doing my own thing so find it frustrating when I have to get dressed to go out and what you plan is going to take so long takes twice as long! The long and the short of it is there’s nothing much to share this week quilting wise.
My smallest circles, when I made this flower block I thought there’s no way I can sew those little circles so d3cided not to use it and put it in the to difficult draw LOL after machine appliqueing 40 little flower blocks I decided to give it ago? And it was a success so I have sure improved my sewing machine skills doing My Calico Garden!!!
You can see how small they are, you can see there are 8 wee circles in the top 1 inch square still can not believe I did them LOL.
I appliqued 22 wee blocks this week and sewed and sewed short seams, so many that I had enough tiny 1 1/2 inch squares to make
6 more Healing Hearts and 2 little squares waiting to be made in to hearts?
Today by pure chance I discovered that my quilting pins that are in one of my sandwiched quilt tops are going rusty??? Yes they are meant to be rust proof but our climate even makes quilting pins rust??? So I have to start machine quilting this top now!!! I wanted to hand sashiko quilt the borders first but it is not to be?
My Bargello quilt that has the rusty pins in it, these are guaranteed none rust pins???
I was hand sashiko quilting the top right hand corner at around 1 pm to have some quiet time and moved a pin to draw a circle and to my horror it was rusty, removed a few more and they were all rusty to, some really rust some just starting, so far have with a lot of care been able to remove them with out ripping the fabric?
BElive it or not I started making these Bargello strips over 30 years ago but did not know the first thing about making a quilt and after sewing tiny strips for a week ended up with a quilt top shaped like a little??? It stayed like that for 25 years till I started to unpick it but it still was way out of shape so then I cut these two odd shapes in to two even shapes add3d some black and now I have something that looks like it might pass as a quilt LOL.
Time for me to go to bed it’s past midnight. Will link with Esther then hit my bed. Thanks for dropping in. Happy sewing those of you who sew. Cheers Glenda
7 Responses to WOW or WIP’s 5th Sept 2018 with Esther.