Amusing Me In The Recent Evenings
Saturday, January 3, 2009 7:02
A project I started today, thinking it would only take me one nap to get done, already put about two hours into it and it’s nowhere near resembling what I eventually hope it to be. There is sewing, gluing and a LOT more colouring to be done before it even nears completion, but the bright colours make me happy just looking at them, and with the plans I have in mind it should be awesome.
NB: Is anyone else obsessed with the Crayola twistables? I LOVE them, not great for any high detail work, but if you need to just add some colour to a design without spending thirty minutes looking for a sharpener.
I’ve been playing around with the idea of making a Stack N Whack/Kaleidoscope quilt, I ended up chopping up some teacup/cupcake fabric (I think it might have been Timeless Treasures, but don’t quote me on that!). These were meant to be hexagons but it seems I had a complete brain snap during the cutting process and cut my triagles on the wrong angle.
I want to make a kaledoscope lap quilt within the next couple of months so I’m on a constant hunt for *just* the right fabric. I thought that this print would have been perfect, but seeing it made up makes me realise there’s more white space than I’d like. It’s prooving difficult finding a large enough scale print, in colours that I like and with a print that I think would work. Any suggestions on ranges/prints for me to consider?
And a doll quilt I started on new years eve, it still needs to be bound but I’m not happy with the quilting – my machine has been skipping stitches and no amount of trying to fix the problem is helping. I know I use it a lot, but could it really need a service after just 3 months? I should have put a coin on the picture to give some kind of scale, to put it slightly more into perspctive, the echo quilting is one quarter of an inch from the seam, the blocks are made from absolutely the tiniest crumbs in my scraps, it’s cute, but the skipped stitches are bugging me.
How many WIPs do you have on the go at the moment?
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Holly says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Unfortunately I have no help to offer with the skipped stitches but I will ask my mother. She actually knows HOW a sewing machine works – I’m just grateful that mine does.
I only have 1 WIP (another troll plush!) which I am grateful for because he’s quite intensive but my head is just swimming with “I want I want” ideas.. If only we had more time, right?
~Holly
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Fern says:
January 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Thanks Holly
I think it might be a problem with the tension, as I can go from 0-9 on the tension and there is no difference in the stitch at all. I’ve only had this machine about 4 months so I’m going to take it back tomorrow and get them to send it back to Brother for a repair.
I love your Trolls,they are too cute!
Hoppo Bumpo says:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Lovely projects. I too adore Twistables, but the small folk of the house have been removing the crayons out of ours. So we now just have the twist and no colour!
hetty go lightly says:
January 13th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I have 29 on the go……quilts in various stages of unfinishedness….
Im about to start another but don’t tell anyone.