My February and March Excuses

Ok, I haven't produced anything or any evidence of "work" lately; have been waiting for inspiration.............didn't buy that one? darn...........
February brought a road trip to "enjoy" the SNOW in Atlanta and thoroughly took my mind off of quilting, as I love the white stuff, and have been buried in genealogy so far this month.

I will admit to having traced off some embroidery blocks, rotary cut some 2" strips for a "someday" black and print log cabin AND have lots of new material made from Mischele's scraps..........will have to visit and grab some more from the "roundfile" before she tosses the itty bitty things.

The Bernina is throwing a tantrum; it thinks everything should be "gathered" not flat, so it has been put in the corner for "time out" and the Huskvarna Viking Designer I has come out of the closet..............I had forgotten how much fun it was to have a machine raise my pressure foot for me and then double stitch and cut my thread by pushing a button with a picture of scissors on it!
AND it sews flat....................so far.

Promise more "scrap fabric" pictures soon.
Ticia

Here is another UFO that finally got finished; it will go on the CharityQuiltsBeginAtHome blog page and on the stack of
"warmies" waiting for new homes!

THE EAGLE FLIES

Ok, there is the little fellow, all done, bead work added and tweeked and ready to go to his new owner. He turned out rather well; learned a LOT about foundation piecing and cross hatching but really like the look........comments welcome..................ticia

The Eagle Almost Ready To Fly

Next post will show the eagle; he/she is done and only the binding and beading and signature is left to be done. Cross hatch became the choice and now that it's done; it was the perfect choice; stippling would have been way too busy for this little fellow is busy enough, just flying along, where to, we don't know, but the recipient of it, will. It's a birthday present for my Cousin, Rita and represents her tribal name. I like to think she will like it.........................ticia

I Love My Walking Foot!

Well, we put away the cute little expensive stipple foot and drug out the walking foot, remembering to go to "other people's" pages for GOOD instructions, as Bernina instructions are the pits and we did a trial run. Not having any masking tape (oh, remember this statement)
we used a 1" strip of muslin and pinned it for something to sew by.

This worked, we are happy again......................then we decide to splurge the .78 cents and buy a roll of masking tape.........................have you ever really READ those dimensions? You can no longer buy at Wal Mart a one inch roll of masking tape without going into the cutesy blue 2.88 tape. You can .75 and .90 but not 1.00..................grrrrrrrrrr So, wanting to finish the eagle that was redeemed from the black hole of UFO's, I gave in and bought the stuff; had no choice, had already started with one inch and the muslin.

Bottom line, Eagle looking good, will feel better when finished but did I mention that I just love my walking foot, absolutely love it........................ticia

Well, the stipple was traced, the eagle pinned and 5 minutes later, the whole project went into the "will NEVER finish this" pile, hopefully never to be seen again. Anyone wanting to stipple an eagle, let me know, otherwise, he remains buried in the black hole; I lack the dexterity to manipulate 20 x 20 of fabric. Maybe the lack of for a lot of things.................ticia

Stipple Sampler----------B-

Ok, go ahead and laugh, everyone who has stippled and has more grey cells left than I, will grant you this one chuckle about me. I once upon a time could stipple "lullabye" baby quilts with eyes almost closed, and after having to modify (grrr) the attachment prongs that Bernina QA missed, looked at little #9, the expensive little devil it was, and couldn't figure out why the needle was in front of the cute little circle. It took a full 5 minutes for this tired old brain (yeah, go ahead and snicker Chele) figured out it was ok for the needle to be in FRONT of the circle.................duh.................Well, I gave myself a B- on the project, its been probably 10 yrs since I did stippling and then it wasn't freehand, I was following a traced project, so maybe I should give myself a B+.

However, Chele's recycled scraps made wonderful "new material" to practice on!

Tomorrow the "Eagle", Jerry bought me a sewing chair tonight (assembly in progress) so I can get out of the "folding lawn chair" and sit at a proper height................yeah................this living off the cuff just to say I went South for the winter isn't too much fun on the budget.

However, it was fun, and no one but me will ever see the sampler again, now if I can just figure out how to download free stipple patterns from the computer...............................to pin over the eagle......................

Been putting lots of time in on genealogy, so quilting is running a little slow. later gang!