Multi-coloured quilt coming along nicely. I've finished quilting within the blocks and have done simple straight lines in the small border. All I have left to quilt now is the wide border which I will do free-motion. I tried earlier but since I hadn't done any FMQ recently, I forgot to drop the feed dogs and naturally had crummy results (and it took me a few hours to realize why...)
So my day has been fruitful. Yay!!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
I'm back
What with Noam's Bar-Mitzvah and then Pesach (Passover), I haven't been in my studio much and haven't done any sewing.
But now I'm back and will try to get into a routine of sewing an hour or two a day and a bit more on the weekends.
I readied my studio, junking clippings of stuff I will never make, templates for projects I no longer care to do, etc.
This morning, I resumed quilting my curved multi-coloured baby quilt. I wasn't happy with the quilting which I started with a walking foot. But I decided to keep going and finish it. In "the big picture", the wonderful piecing will be the main event and the stitching will hold it together. I'll get more creative in the future. At this point, I just want to finish it.
Same with the quilt for Lior and Neta's new baby whose name at the moment escapes me. Oy, is the memory fuse ever faulty!
I have also decided to finally tackle Inbal's quilt to do the quilting. It doesn't have to be perfect, just heartfelt. And the charity baby quilts of the one a month new year's resolution of which so far none have been completed...
On more encouraging news, FibreArts Toronto has applied for exhibition space at the Toronto Public Libray. We won't know til mid-June if we've been accepted but it's a step in the right direction.
At the Pomegranate Guild meeting last week, we had a "garage sale". I didn't get anything packed up in time to sell but I did buy a bag of "stuff", mostly needlepoint yarns but also some fabric, for $2.00. My "fibre diet", you ask? It was a small bag and for a good cause. And everyone falls off the wagon now and then.
We were in Perth this week to check out winter damage at camp. There didn't appear to be any. Hopefully the vandals will not be overly active between our visit and June 1st when Menachem goes up for the summer.
Our next trip there is planned for the Labour Day weekend. We'll take up the stuff we need to set up our room and hopefully have a mini-vacation before the summer starts.
Back to stitch.
But now I'm back and will try to get into a routine of sewing an hour or two a day and a bit more on the weekends.
I readied my studio, junking clippings of stuff I will never make, templates for projects I no longer care to do, etc.
This morning, I resumed quilting my curved multi-coloured baby quilt. I wasn't happy with the quilting which I started with a walking foot. But I decided to keep going and finish it. In "the big picture", the wonderful piecing will be the main event and the stitching will hold it together. I'll get more creative in the future. At this point, I just want to finish it.
Same with the quilt for Lior and Neta's new baby whose name at the moment escapes me. Oy, is the memory fuse ever faulty!
I have also decided to finally tackle Inbal's quilt to do the quilting. It doesn't have to be perfect, just heartfelt. And the charity baby quilts of the one a month new year's resolution of which so far none have been completed...
On more encouraging news, FibreArts Toronto has applied for exhibition space at the Toronto Public Libray. We won't know til mid-June if we've been accepted but it's a step in the right direction.
At the Pomegranate Guild meeting last week, we had a "garage sale". I didn't get anything packed up in time to sell but I did buy a bag of "stuff", mostly needlepoint yarns but also some fabric, for $2.00. My "fibre diet", you ask? It was a small bag and for a good cause. And everyone falls off the wagon now and then.
We were in Perth this week to check out winter damage at camp. There didn't appear to be any. Hopefully the vandals will not be overly active between our visit and June 1st when Menachem goes up for the summer.
Our next trip there is planned for the Labour Day weekend. We'll take up the stuff we need to set up our room and hopefully have a mini-vacation before the summer starts.
Back to stitch.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Studio clean-up
Just a post to let you know that I haven't given up on blogging but haven't been doing much sewing so didn't have too much to report.
I received the "Studio" issue from "Cloth, Paper, Scissors". What can I say? A Yiddish "eh". In my opinion, nothing to write home about. The good thing about it is that it motivated me to do a little tidying in my studio. I went through all my "files" holding things I may some day do or which appeared at one time to provide inspiration. Since I am more realistic now, I pared down the files to about half which opened up room on my shelfing unit. I also took out my boom-box radio with its speakers and freed up a whole shelf (the boom box sat on one shelf and one of the speakers on a second.) I had already started culling my books by donating some of them to the Pomegranate Guild library (that way I can "visit" with them when I want) and the ones which I have no intention of revisiting to the York Heritage Guild. My studio was pared down anyways and my fabric diet appears to be working except for the occasional small falling off the wagon episode of a fat quarter here, a trim there.
With Noam's bar-mitzvah last weekend (btw, he wore the kippah) and Pesach next, I am taking a small hiatus from sewing and am doing a mild spring cleaning.
We are again hosting the first seder and expect approximately 20 people. Approximately 20 because our guests sometimes bring others. The karp has been purchased and cleaned, so we're half way there already.
We're invited to Alissa and Mel's the second night and I may just sew up something for her. I'll see if the muse strikes.
I received the "Studio" issue from "Cloth, Paper, Scissors". What can I say? A Yiddish "eh". In my opinion, nothing to write home about. The good thing about it is that it motivated me to do a little tidying in my studio. I went through all my "files" holding things I may some day do or which appeared at one time to provide inspiration. Since I am more realistic now, I pared down the files to about half which opened up room on my shelfing unit. I also took out my boom-box radio with its speakers and freed up a whole shelf (the boom box sat on one shelf and one of the speakers on a second.) I had already started culling my books by donating some of them to the Pomegranate Guild library (that way I can "visit" with them when I want) and the ones which I have no intention of revisiting to the York Heritage Guild. My studio was pared down anyways and my fabric diet appears to be working except for the occasional small falling off the wagon episode of a fat quarter here, a trim there.
With Noam's bar-mitzvah last weekend (btw, he wore the kippah) and Pesach next, I am taking a small hiatus from sewing and am doing a mild spring cleaning.
We are again hosting the first seder and expect approximately 20 people. Approximately 20 because our guests sometimes bring others. The karp has been purchased and cleaned, so we're half way there already.
We're invited to Alissa and Mel's the second night and I may just sew up something for her. I'll see if the muse strikes.
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