Today, I left my sister alone with her husband and went shopping. My sister wants to quilt and has signed up for a class later in the spring. I didn’t bring everything with me, so I went to Dollarama and bought what I figure she needs. And of course, I will use them while I’m here! (wink, wink)
- A flannel back table cloth makes a great design wall. I usually put it on the bed and design there. A bonus is that you can fold it up and it will store your layout for you. If the flannel gets so it doesn’t stick very well, a quick spray with 505 Fabric Spray Adhesive helps make it more sticky.
- The hair clips can be used to clip units together or hold the binding in place. I have some that I put numbers on with a sharpie and they can be used to “label” rows or whatever.
- The spray bottle is to either dilute Best Press (half & half with water) or to use with water. I use a dry iron, but sometimes a little moisture is what you need to get rid of a crease. And yes, I did buy her some unscented Best Press – but not at the dollar store, so it’s not in the picture.
- The shelf liner is to put under her foot pedal to keep it from travelling. And, I will cut 2 small pieces (~ 2″ x 3″) to put under my hands when I am free motioning.
- The hair thingies (?pony tail holders?) are great for putting around a bobbin to keep the thread from going everywhere. I match the bobbin thingy with the thread thingy and then I can tell at a glance which thread goes with which bobbin.
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- WIPs on Wednesday @ Esther Quilt Blog
- Let’s Bee Social @ Sew Fresh Quilts
- Midweek Makers @ QuiltFabrication
- Linky Tuesday @ Free Motion by the River
Happy Quilting!
Gail
I’m taking a few small projects with me. I hope to complete at least 7 UFOs while I’m gone. This is half of my suitcase (the other half is for clothes)
The fat 1/4 flannel quilt that was sitting on top of my filing cabinet is DONE! The sun was shining for a few minutes after the quilt came out of the dryer. I quickly hung the quilt on the line an snapped a photo.
The ones that didn’t really interest me?
SEW – Since I originally said that in order to get your PHD you had to finish at least half of your UFOs or a maximum of 28, I will stick to completing 28 UFOs and finish all new projects that I start in 2018. I’m finding that 28 is stressful enough, 30 would be over the top for me!
It will take a bit of time to get this one quilted. I’m doing small feather wreaths in the white blocks and outlining the coloured blocks. Slow going!
I’ve been working on Bonnie Hunter’s “On Ringo Lake” and am almost caught up on the clues. This is a picture of the start of Clue 5. It is done.
I’m going to work on my quilting PHD in 2018. Look 
I was looking at the projects on top of the filing cabinet and analyzed why I’m not thrilled about them. See the container on the top left, that says “Paper Piecing + 2 baby quilts?” Well, the purple that you see in the corner is the border of the quilt that was paper pieced. (Which I did without sewing on the paper!) It needed to have the back pieced. There wasn’t quiet enough to cover the whole back … but I knew that I had enough fabric from the front of the quilt that it could easily be pieced together.
Sew … since I want to tackle projects that are on top of the filing cabinet first, I pulled that container down. I had to laugh at the label that I made ahead of time and put in the box. I don’t mind the label stating it’s one year earlier, but not 2. In my last trunk show, I told the audience that my labels have the date that the label was made, not necessarily when the quilt was finished.
