Daily Quilting Report

 

The raw edge appliqué stitching didn't take long this morning so I added on the checker strip and the batting. I actually thought I had the things in the plan for today but when I looked I saw that I had written the strip and batting for tomorrow. Because I wrote it down last might I thought it was on today's agenda.

I don't usually look at my planner first thing because I pretty much do the same every day. Quilting, writing and doll dressmaking.

A pesky thing I noticed with my block is that it is 1/2" too narrow. No idea why. The green grass hill that is part of the appliqué is only 12" when it is supposed to be 12 1/2". I checked the pieces I cut and I have cut them smaller. The only explanation is that I read my cutting ruler wrong. But why is the precept grass only 12"? Oh well. I will have to fudge putting it together somehow. Even if I add a strip down the side.

These things happen :(

Cheers,

Val

Daily Quilting Report

Finally got the last of the 12 blocks done for April.

I now have two weeks of cat sitting. This is the lovely Miles.

I started the raw edge appliqué free motion stitching. I only had a bit of bobbin left so I stopped when it ran out. I just got the eggs done.

I won't quite get April finished before May starts but I have high hopes for getting the May kit done before the end of May.

Cheers,

Val

Daily Quilting Report

 I was a bit distracted this morning because I was thinking about finishing my latest doll dress pattern ready for publishing. I lost a bit of time while my daughter was visiting so I was a bit behind with my schedule for the pattern. 

The pattern needs to go out today with the newsletter so it will bug me until it is done. I also knew that if I didn't do the quilt block first I probably wouldn't get back to it. Hence the distraction and the annoying mistake I had to correct in the basket block.

I got the bottom corner the wrong way round and had to unpick it.

Crisis averted with no harm done except to my state of mind. It just highlighted how anxious I was about the doll dress pattern. A bit of stress is OK and I know it doesn't really matter if I make a mistake on the block or have to delay my newsletter post for half a day or even a whole day. Writing about it now helps to put it all in perspective.

Only one more pesky basket block left to do. (And only a few bits of instruction editing left on the doll dress pattern as I publish this blog post.)

Cheers,

Val

Daily Quilting Report

 

Another basket block today.

Yesterday I listened to a minimalist expert tell me that it is wrong to want things. Yeah right. Like that goes down well with a quilter. I did think I needed to make my work table a bit neater so I put the dolls behind my computer and divided the table so quilting things were on one side and doll dressmaking things were on the other side. It's much nicer now.

I also thought that I might put some stacks of my doll clothes fabrics at the back of the doll dressmaking side so I can be thinking about what I will design next. Never a thought of getting rid of anything. I would say that I am not addicted to buying things just because I get an email or see an ad. I also don't think I could live without having many different choices of threads or trims or teapots and cups and tea.

I don't think I will ever be a minimalist! But I do like to have my things neatly arranged most of the time.

Cheers,

Val