I feel like a made a decent dent in this month's ongoing to-do list. I'll update like I did last week.
- make 15 guild items (secret) In progress.
- keep up with quilting workload Still one behind where I'd like to be, but on track.
- figure out what to do with sloper for class
Last week I had reached out for help. I re-watched several lessons and decided that I should have done a narrow shoulder adjustment several weeks back. Also, since I haven't been exercising due to the foot injury, my hip/bum measurement has increased to the point I need to size up the skirt. Is that adding insult to injury? I surely think so. I've redrawn my skirt pattern piece and made the narrow shoulder adjustment and the back curve adjustment to the pattern pieces. I'm in the process of cutting out and sewing a new version. Once that's done, I need to check if I need an additional FBA or any other adjustments. Once I'm approved there, I need to do the sleeve and waistband/tummy lessons.
- tighten elastic in tiered gingham skirt & hand sew shut the weird waistband gaps
No further progress. I fished out the elastic in preparation for tightening.
- make progress on Forever Neverland quilt
No further progress. I have all the remaining pinwheel blocks (11) prepped and laid out, ready to sew. I made a table runner over the weekend. I had purchased a kit several years ago, but didn't have the pattern, so I had to recreate it from the picture. This is a last-minute creation for entry in the fair. The print fabrics are Joanna Figueroa's (Fig Tree & Co) Fruit Cocktail line and the background is a Moda. I quilted it with a design I found in the new/old intelliQuilter, Leaves, Loops, and Swirls. I finished binding it last night. Cutting it a bit close!
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I had laid out my fabrics ahead of time to have good color balance. I don't know what happened, but the colors aren't balanced at all. Oh well.
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figure out fair entries prior to June 25
Drop-off is this afternoon. I think I came up with five categories I could enter. I didn't remember that you can only have one entry per "entry" (subcategory), so I had to rethink my strategy. That isn't super-clear, but you can enter one quilt under 60 x 60, one quilt under 45 x 45, one quilt larger than 60 x 60, etc.
make progress on race car quilt prior to OMG post on June 24 posted yesterday- weed all three flower gardens
My dear husband weeded two of the three flower beds. What a great gift!
figure out how and where to transplant things I want to keep from the upper garden to prepare for porch repair
He had me show him which plants I wanted to save and next thing I know, he's weeded the flower beds and replanted part of the plants to fill in holes in the two upper gardens. I helped a bit with moving the rest to the side of the barn. The upper bed transplants are doing well. The ones by the barn and struggling. I think they sat out too long before being replanted. We'll probably lose most of them.  |
| Freshly weeded and with several transplants that look like they've always been there. |
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| The area next to the porch to the right of the front door is now barren. I need to get back behind that tree and weed there now that it's accessible. It's been so blooming hot and humid that I'm waiting until the temperature breaks. |
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| This was Friday night. By Sunday the rose bush looked totally dead and everything else, mostly bee balm and day lilies, looked very worse for wear. |
- continue to work on business website issues No progress
- make muslin of shorts pattern to see if they fit/if so, make some shorts (Why are all the shorts I see this year so short--like 3" inseams? I'm too old for that.) No progress
- continue working on things needed to set up second longarm & iQ
We started doing the foot change-out. This involved basically undoing everything we had done for setup so far! We removed the old foot shaft and inserted the new one. As you put in the new bushings, you have to put in a special glue and then, once in place, you have to rotate the shaft every five minutes for half an hour and then every 15 minutes for the next half hour. At that point, you have to leave it perfectly level on its side for eight hours. Mine sat longer than that until we could work on it again. We have reinstalled the innards and moved the machine back onto the carriage. We had to remove the hook to get the shaft out, so reinstalling and retiming is our next task. Once we get all that done and the table reassembled, I think we can proceed with starting the iQ installation. I still need to fix my silly goof with the extra SewTite bar as well. I think I can bring my travel sewing machine over there and just unroll the leader a bit without having to fully remove it again.
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Here's the inside with several parts missing.
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I completed four quilts for others over the past week. This is Terry's quilt, quilted with Oil Spill. I showed her three potential threads and she liked the Vegas Gold. {Side note: Longarm League's Oil Spill and Karlee Porter's Identity are good at easily easing in fullness.}Another of Terry's quilts, quilted with Simply Sunflowers. She requested turquoise thread on this one. I used Lagoon.
Next is Valynda's quilt, quilted with Basic Swirl.
Finally, Shirley's sheep quilt, quilted with Cinnamon Roll. I just love the border fabric she used for this! I think it really sets off the whole thing. Also, I think this is the first of this quilt pattern (Coriander Quilts?) that I've received for quilting.
I have been keeping up with the vegetable garden. I pull weeds every evening. We got our first (maybe last with this weather?) pea harvest. I really like those purple peas. The plants grow well and it's easy to see the purple for harvesting (some can be green though). I got them from Hudson Valley Seed and they are called Sugar Magnolia Snap Pea. I've been growing them from the same pack of seeds for a few years now. I ran out this year, so added in some from Burpee that are not growing nearly as well. I also like growing Hudson Valley's Velour Haricot Vert Bush Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris). Purple again, easy to see. This year's plants are like 4" tall right now, but they are getting blossoms. I did try to grow Hudson Valley's Cocozelle zucchini for several years, but didn't have much luck, so I switched to Burpee this year. I might try a mix of both next year just to see what happens.One thing I think I should try for next year is putting straw on all the beds. We have it on the asparagus container and it stays so much more moist than the other containers. I'll be back Tuesday with July's One Monthly Goal and Wednesday with my regular post.
goodness... you were going in circles!
ReplyDeleteLove your table runner you finished