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posted on December 17, 2010, at 6:46 am I looked through my 2010 project list yesterday, and thought I’d cull a few that just weren’t going to get done by the time 2010 went and 2011 arrived. A quilt, a couple of tablecloths, the ice cream social dress, and a new ironing board cover just weren’t going to make it. So, delete.
I am, however, left with a challenge tht makes me happy. Just how much can I get done before the end of this year? Here’s what I have in mind. I reckon I can get the following done. It’ll take some planning, but I’m going for it!
First, I want to finish Sarah’s Triangles Quilt. That’d be just silly if I didn’t get that one finished. I only need to quilt the border, albeit a queen-sized 8″ border, sew the binding on, and then pull all that basting stitch out, but I reckon I can do it.
Gita’s Chelsea quilt? Well, now that the top’s done, I need to sandwich it and quilt it, then put on the binding. I can’t quite see that getting done in time, but you never know, right? I will be quilting by hand, going around all the flower boxes with a nice turquoise/aqua, and then straight-stitching the rest of it. What do you think? It’s not that big. I might take that one on too.
Then there’s only my tablecloths. I have two unfinished cloths. I don’t think I will try to finish those before New Year’s, but then again, it’s machine sewing, and won’t take that long really. I’ll keep this one in reserve, and see how I go, but I doubt it. I only have two weeks for all this, and I’d rather get the quilts done. I have already made up enough of my Liberty Stars blocks for the next two weeks’ posts, so I don’t have to worry about them.
So here I go! Wonder if I’ll get it all done!
posted on July 26, 2010, at 12:58 pm I’ve been quilting for about four years now, and sewing for over three decades, and this is the first time I’ve washed my fabrics before cutting and sewing them! I’m a little amazed at myself, but here’s the thinking. I’m making tablecloths and napkins!! They’re going to be in and out of my washing machine heaps of times, so I better have my dimensions right, and know up front if my fabrics will shrink or not. One thing I really don’t like is tablecloths that are too short. And I want my napkins to be a nice generous size too.
 don't they look oh so pretty on my line?
I’ve been deliberating for awhile now about making cloths for my kitchen table using some of my favourite fabrics. Sounds like a perfect idea, yes? But I know that some time in the next year or so, we’ll be either building or buying a new home to live in, and I don’t know if I’ll be using the current rectangular table in my kitchen, or if I’ll have what we always planned to have in the kitchen – our beautiful custom-made square table. If that’s how it’ll go, then all these beautiful cloths I’m making now won’t be of any use. See my point?
Only thing that got me over the line today, got my hands scooping up the fabrics and dropping them into the machine and turning on the water, was the knowledge that sometimes I am just darn stupid, and I let my need to have things be perfect distract me from actually getting something done! I know I’m alone in this, I know you won’t have a clue what I’m on about, right?
So, I’m determined to sew something this week. It’s been w-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too long since I did anything, so I’m going to finish this cloth before Wednesday night. We’re having the immediate family over for Sarah’s birthday and my new cloth is going to be on my table!
posted on July 26, 2010, at 12:58 pm I’ve been quilting for about four years now, and sewing for over three decades, and this is the first time I’ve washed my fabrics before cutting and sewing them! I’m a little amazed at myself, but here’s the thinking. I’m making tablecloths and napkins!! They’re going to be in and out of my washing machine heaps of times, so I better have my dimensions right, and know up front if my fabrics will shrink or not. One thing I really don’t like is tablecloths that are too short. And I want my napkins to be a nice generous size too.
don't they look oh so pretty on my line?
I’ve been deliberating for awhile now about making cloths for my kitchen table using some of my favourite fabrics. Sounds like a perfect idea, yes? But I know that some time in the next year or so, we’ll be either building or buying a new home to live in, and I don’t know if I’ll be using the current rectangular table in my kitchen, or if I’ll have what we always planned to have in the kitchen – our beautiful custom-made square table. If that’s how it’ll go, then all these beautiful cloths I’m making now won’t be of any use. See my point?
Only thing that got me over the line today, got my hands scooping up the fabrics and dropping them into the machine and turning on the water, was the knowledge that sometimes I am just darn stupid, and I let my need to have things be perfect distract me from actually getting something done! I know I’m alone in this, I know you won’t have a clue what I’m on about, right?
So, I’m determined to sew something this week. It’s been w-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too long since I did anything, so I’m going to finish this cloth before Wednesday night. We’re having the immediate family over for Sarah’s birthday and my new cloth is going to be on my table!
posted on April 6, 2010, at 4:40 pm I finally finished the quilting on the Afikomen cloth today.
 cross-hatch stitching And since I was so close to finishing the entire project, I cut out and sewed on the binding too.
 finished and folded afikomen cloth Click here to go to the project page.
posted on April 2, 2010, at 8:58 am How do you like that! My workroom is all cleaned out, I’m so happy I finally got rid of all the junk, the piles of paperwork, scraps, rubbish, things that just got piled on top of other things over the past year, and now. It’s clean, clear, a really inviting place to create and sew and.. well, get things done.
Remember the scrapbooking paper jungle beast from 2009? Well really my entire room was like that. You couldn’t see a clear bit of desk or table, and the entire floor was piles of paperwork and all kinds of… stuff.
Here’s how it all looks now…
So here I am, up early, bright eyed and bushy tailed, as they say, and I figure I’ll get some sewing done. I figure I’ll finish off my tablecloth, so I can finally publish my first tutorial.
I have all my black strips of fabric for the border of my Simply Square Tablecloth ready on the table. I take out the cream cotton off the machine, and take out the matching cream cotton bobbin, and look into my bobbin case for black. Have I got one? No. And all the bobbins are full, so I don’t want to go over them with black, and I don’t have a spare one! I could go over one of them with a bit of black, but I can’t bring myself to do that. Crazy isn’t it. Do you do that too? I hate multi-coloured bobbins. I never know what’s underneath, and I just don’t like it. The shops aren’t even open today because of Easter Friday! So frustrating. Devorah’s coming over a 1pm, I’ll see if I can score an empty bobbin from her. I will get this project finished today, one way or t’other!
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