3 posts tagged “quilting”
Today I finally finished my mini quilt. I started with sewing selvage strips together. I sewed many 10x5 inch blocks. Then I cut them in half to make 5x5 inch blocks. Then I cut some solid & pattern fabric 5x5 inch squares. I sewed them all up then made disappearing 9 patch blocks. Then I sewed all those together. Once the quilt was pieced I cut two fabrics for the backing and sewed them together. Then I sandwiched it all together and machine quilted a crazy wavy pattern all over it. I have a really simple & tiny machine so this took awhile. Then I machine & hand sewed the binding around it. I finished that today. It was a fun quilt to make. It took 8 hours and 15 minutes over 5 days to complete. I can't sit and do one thing too long so I did this mostly in 30min-2 hour sittings. It is 19 x 25 inches.
I've already started on another one!
I drove to Joann Fabric all excited today. Today I will learn to knit! On my way Steve called. He was exchanging some jeans at Old Navy, which is across the highway from Joann Fabric. He said he was going to meet Seth later to go to Best Buy, but while he was waiting he wanted to hang out. While I waited for him to get to the store I got everything on the Stitch & Bitch supply list, well the things I could find. I also wrote down the needle sizes & type of yarn to get for the first three projects in the book, so I wouldn’t have to come back. Well Steve came and the two of us are starring at the yarn.
“Is super bulky the same as extra bulky?”
“Is chunky the same as bulky?”
So we decided that yes and yes. Now time to pick colors. Steve picked the colors for a striped scarf because I couldn’t decide. So I had a basket full of stuff and felt pretty good. Then we go over to the fabric because I’m also working on a quilt. Make Steve carry the fabric bolts while I get mad that they have horrible fabric selection.
We get to the register and I let Steve pick out a candy for being good (lol). The lady at the register knows me by now. She is probably in her early 50s. Long salt & pepper hair, petite, has the sweetest voice and no matter how crazy that store is she is always in a good mood. She asks me, “So, what project are you doing now?” I talk to her and then she tells me my total: $65.45. I was shocked. I hand over my $20 gift card and then my debit card. I couldn’t believe that basket of the cheapest supplies and the few skeins of yarn added up to that much. I just didn’t believe it, but we checked the receipt. It was correct.
We get home. Steve is on the computer. I am sitting in bed all excited getting my supplies out of the packaging. I open my Stitch & Bitch knitting book and realize that this is going to be a struggle. It takes me 30minutes to make one lousy knot. It took me another hour to learn & accomplish the first step. And well, that is as far as I have gotten. I really want to learn, but it isn’t happening. I’ve gotten the first step down and then I’m stuck. So far the only good my knitting needles have done is scratching my back and making dramatic stabbing at my neck motions when I get angry.
But, my quilt is coming along:
