Mendoza! Wow! What a game.
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| Image borrowed from the internet. |
In other Hoosier news, my son finally received his IU acceptance letter last Thursday. We went out for dinner to just off campus to celebrate and then ran up the street to Sample Gates to grab a photo. It was so frigid outside that we got a picture with no other people in it. 
I haven't managed much personal sewing this week. I have one seam sewn on each of the 60 HST I need to make for the Magnificent mystery. 
Over the weekend I decided that it's time to pull out the paint by numbers kit I bought a few years ago. Actually I had purchased one each for my daughter and me, but there are four total kits and I don't remember why. I do vaguely remember that the company sent the wrong one, so that would account for one, but not sure why there are two spare.
Anyway, I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and read different discussion forums and decided to start with the canvas that has the biggest shapes. This one is not mounted, so I decided to follow someone's tutorial on dry mounting it to an adhesive foam board. She recommended staying at the 16" x 20" size so that it is easier to frame. 
I measured and trimmed the canvas. It was difficult to mount to the board. If I use this method again, I would work from the bottom up rather than the top down as was shown in the tutorial. I think it might be a bit easier to keep everything aligned. I used my seam roller to smooth everything out. I had to add some painters tape to the bottom edge where the canvas didn't cover the sticky.
My next step will be to put some clear gesso over the canvas--hopefully tonight. I did take lots of photos of each part of the canvas so that I have a reference and can enlarge areas if needed. A lot of the areas to be painted are pretty microscopic. 
I'm still making progress with my knitting. I'm now in the eighth skein of 10. 
Over on the quilting front, it's been pretty slow. I spent three days last week doing the custom quilting on Sara's quilt. This is similar to the quilt she made before her daughter was born, but different colors and different orientation. She wanted it to be quilted the same, so that saved a lot of design time for me. 
For reference, here is the original one from last January. 
Each of these was quilted free hand on the owls and branches and had the Midnight Sparkle pantograph quilted in the background. Last time I buried all the panto threads at the end and this time I buried most as I went along, which was a huge time saver.
I also quilted Windswept on Susan's quilt.
And Star Pop on Linda's quilt. 
Look at this review I found. 
That's all I have for this week. I'll be back Sunday with the OMG link up. Hopefully I can get all those HST sewn, trimmed, and assembled before then!
One final thing--I was bored the other day and clicked on "Amazon Haul". Have you ever looked at that? There's some weird things there. I found this and just had to buy it. 🤣😂 The pink cast is a reflection of my shirt. Side note: I am allergic to cats, so this sign was a completely frivolous purchase. We don't do indoor pets other than fish.
I know we're supposed to be avoiding Amazon as much as possible, but when you live somewhere where not much is that close, it's can be inconvenient to bypass. And they deliver relatively quickly, right to your door. That being said, many times when I'm at the UPS store doing quilt drop offs, there are people returning HUGE amounts of things to Amazon. Like multiple heaping laundry baskets full, or multiple large shipping boxes full. The UPS store usually has a large shipping crate on a pallet sitting next to the registers, full of Amazon returns. 😳 Maybe it is too easy to buy and return things. Also, some of the things have they are returning have clearly been used, like Halloween costumes, soft home goods, etc. I don't think that is right. Anyway, the sign is a hoot and we will have a great white elephant gift should we need one.
