Stories from the Sewing Room

Well. It has been a week. {Why do I feel like I'm always saying this?} 

I have made some reasonable progress on my Magnificent Mystery. I have completed parts five and seven.

Part seven involved making two sizes of flying geese. I didn't have the correct size Bloc-loc templates to trim these. Part way through I remembered I have the Wing Clipper tool. I really like this ruler. It has lots of sizes and is easier to use than a regular ruler. And it is more attractively priced than the other specialty ruler.

Here are the completed parts.

Part six involves making and trimming 120 HST and then sewing them into blocks. Will I be able to get it done in the next week and a half? It's anyone's guess. 

I'm still making progress on my knitted blanket. I was able to fix the mistakes I'd made in the fourth skein. I didn't take a picture of the mess. I sort of wish I had, just to show that I fixed it. Special shout-out to Mimi at Pastiche Knitwear for having the videos published that made me understand how and feel empowered to make the repairs. I have no affiliation with the person. Google suggested the videos and they were an a-ha moment.

Anyway, I am know part way through my sixth of 10 skeins on this project. 

My daughter was home over the weekend and brought some of her yarn with her. This yarn came in hanks and she wanted to turn them into balls/cakes to make it easier to work with. I had purchased a yarn swift and ball winder last year on a really good sale, so we broke them out. 

{You can also see her pile of fabric on the table. She selected and I purchased some things back in 2020 to paper-piece a snake quilt and I told her the time is now to start. But we discovered we'd never bought background fabric.}

Here are her finished cakes. 

I went to small guild Friday night and guess what? We are doing a UFO challenge this year. How serendipitous that I already have a list made (PHD).

Meanwhile, I felt like I haven't gotten much work done, but looking back over my camera roll, it's not as bad as I thought, at least for last week. 

I quilted Deep Waves on Ann's quilt. 

I quilted Sugar and Spice on Twilla's quilt.

Everly's quilt was quilted with Threaded and pink thread. This one is bound for the IHQS's youth entry category.

I quilted Triplet on Sara's quilt. 

I bound both of Ann's quilts and got them shipped back to her. 

This week got off to a really slow start as I had some things to attend to that took me away from the sewing room. 

So far this week I have quilted Rylan's quilt. He selected Diagonal Plaid Bias Cut. This one will be entered in the youth category as well. I love that young people are taking up quilting. Both kids chose great color combos and tried more advanced blocks.

Next up I have a custom quilt that I've been pulling and/or sourcing threads for. Almost everything else I have booked to quilt needs to go on the big machine, however, I custom quilt on the big machine, so...yeah. Not much money coming in this week. Some weeks it's like that. If you need a smaller quilt quilted, there's currently no waiting. ha ha

In other news, we thought the dryer sounded bad last week, so my husband figured the rollers and belts were going since it's about 14 years old. He ordered some parts for $35 and tore apart the machine. The rollers and belt looked fine but he did find a big hairball (thanks, daughter who doesn't even live here) and a lot of lint that had escaped the filter. I didn't get a picture of it, but one of the sound deadening strips on the drum had a spot that had fallen off and melted into a hard blob on the bottom of the dryer. My husband couldn't find any description of that issue online at all. I guess we're special. 

So if you ever wondered what the inside of a dryer looks like, now you know.