I sewed 6 hours yesterday and boy am I feeling it this morning... I have sore muscles everywhere. I can barely move... I plan to go for a walk ( On the treadmill, it is safer and more convient )

My borders were cut when I cut the quilt out so now I have to sew them on. I have a few design issues to deal with.

So far I have sewed 24 hours over 6 months... never at the same time .... I have been keeping a time log of this quilt so I know how much time it takes to make an average quilt.

I wonder how much of thie 24 hours is spent unsewing my blocks.

Anna


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I am on a roll....


I sewed my blocks together fixing MY BIG GOOF UP. I even decided to make the quilt about 10 inches larger since I realized it was going to be skimpy.

Tomorrow I will sew on the boarders of the quilt. I want to take it to the quilters by the end of the month so I can exhibit it in the quilt show.

I just needed some inspiration. I had been blocked from sewing for the past 4 months and just could not get it in gear... but once the block broke it did it with a vengence.

I can hardly wait until tomorrow.

Well I didn't use any thread today, yet, but I did spend at least 15 minutes in my sewing room. I trimmed the selvage off the fabric sections that I finished sewing together yesterday, washed the blood off from where I jabbed my finger with a pin, and pressed the seams open. Tomorrow is busy, and with two doctor's appts on Monday, I might be able to get the dye figured out. Then on Tuesday, I can get it dyed. We'll see how it goes.
Frances in Austin where we've had 27 days straight of record heat.

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I'm in that QU class too! Are You Cheryl in gallery 12? If so, it is looking good. I'm finding it so slow going trying to find the right combo of fabrics (even tho I had collected a large stash). I'm enjoying and slowly getting over my intimidation. But I'm afraid I won't have anything put up before the class ends and I so want Marilyn's help with my fabric choices.

Well I had F&P American BOM class today... We are working through F&P Quilting Complete guide. We are also using the AMERICAN SAMPLER booklet. Kay, the instructer says we will be well versed quilters when we finish this block.

We are currently doing simple applique using different techniques. We will be doing English paper piecing (baby ) tumbling blocks next.

Today I got one small heart ( 3 hour class) I was really going good when my DD with my beautiful grandson came to visit the class. Needless to say I got side tracked by his beautiful smile. I did not finish the little blocks we were doing so now I have home work... No big deal cause I have no plans for tonight.


I did find out I sewed my zig zag lightening bolt setting COMPLETELY WRONG.... I sewed them together verticallly when they should have been sewed diagonallly.... Oh Well... I have designed my own way of doing this setting... TOTALLY WRONG ... BUT it will work and my sister won't know or care that it was done MY way instead of the right way.

IF you find the nest try putting yeast granuales with just a few crystals of sugar around the outside of the entrance hole.... The aunts bring the sugar/ yeast mixture into the nest as food... they blow up after eating the yeast.... I use to use this method when I gardened and could not disturb my plant beds.

Best do do this when the ground is DRY.... if the yeast gets tooo wet it blows up prematurely and the ants will not take the bait.

WORTH A TRY, and not harmful to the environment.

I ended up not getting even one stitch into fabric yesterday but I work on a quilt alllllllll day long. A while back I started making a four patch kalediscope quilt I wanted to put into a zig zag setting. My GF ( she may be my enemy) talked me into putting it into a Zig Zag Ligtening bolt setting. It was fun until now .... I have to figure out out to get the staggared ends to alll match up.


http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/561194739UQtrLY

Zig Zag setting pictures


http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2238602990077289777KGuGno

Kay made this quilt using zig zag settings.


So yesterday I spent the day trying to figure out how I am going to get this crazy quilt together... Kay was unavailable to ask questions of.... but wait until I get a hold of her today. She got me in this mess now she can help me fix it.

I did not want to go to bed without working on a quilt... even though no sewing was done I count this as sewing cause I was working on my sewing project.... just not with a needle in my hand. ... well this is where I spent my 3 hours in the evening .... getting nothing done.


Thanks for letting me VENTILATE MY FRUSTRATIONS !

Okay, I might need this with the kids (two teens) getting out of school. I love them dearly but they often interupt wanting to know what s going on for the day. Can I drive them some place Friends beach mall etc.

So here it goes, I have a few irons in the fire. The first is a bed quilt for me and DH that I really need to get finished quilting. About 3/4 the quilting is done. Then I have started a fabric portrait class on QU which I am stuck with fabric choices. I was doing well until I decided the dark colors were too dark and had to go searching. My SIL is having a baby in Sept. so of course I have bought the fabric for a baby quilt. That is just an idea of whats going on.

Yesterday I spent finding the sourse of itty bitty ants which means tearing everything out of cabinets (kitchen of course) cleaning and investigating until I discovered their entry point outside below the windowin a fondation crack. They have been sprayed and not an ant to be seen since. But needless to say no sewing was done. I didn't even set foot in the sewing room. Today is Saturday and DH and I are planning on cleaning out storage shelving in the basement, so the odds of getting into the sewing room are a bit slim, but I 'll give it a good try. I might get a toe in or glance in since my room is in the basement and on the other side of the wall we will working on. Maybe I can sneek in and DH won't notice. I'll let you know how it goes.[/color][/size]

I've talked about my motto a couple of times on TQS and end each blog with "Til next blog-time, take 15 and do something quilt-y." This refers to the fact that, like your one needle's worth a day makes progress, so does as little as 15 minutes a day spent on quilt-related tasks.

I work from home and often take my lunch hour to sew. For instance, today I started and finished a 3" finished miniature pineapple block. Took only 40 minutes and used time that I might have spent mindlessly watching TV to get a break from the work computer. I've made seven of these blocks (working during lunches and in the evenings) this week.

Sometimes my 15 minutes are spent clearing my cutting table and sorting scraps. More often, those minutes turn into 30 or more and I get quite a lot accomplished.

There are so many things that can be done in a short time. Make a list if you need to and touch on one of them every day, before or after you do your needle's worth. Pretty soon, you'll be caught back up in your projects or excited to be making progress and the inspiration will flow freely.

Well I had quilt bee today so I got a lot done. I overslept and got there late, around 10:45. We took a lunch break at 12:00 and then I sewed until around 1:15. All of it was by hand, so I sewed probably 5 or 6 needles worth of thread, between 2.5 and 3 feet of sewing two pieces of fabric together. I now have three pieces of fabric, ten feet long each sewn together to make a 10x10 piece of fabric to applique my 59 roses to. So maybe I can get it dyed this weekend and start sewing my roses on.
Frances in Austin where it's been hot for so long.

TILDA THREAD

I am transporting the idea of a TILDA THREAD to this message board from other boards I have been on. The idea is simple...

SEW ONE NEEDLE/ THREAD WORTH a day. ThIS is to keep a person on task because LIFE LIKE TO INTERFER.[/list:u]

I have been so bogged down this spring by LIFE EVENTS ... good and bad I have been loosing my drive to work on ANY SEWING. I watch quiting DVDs and shows but got very little sewing done. ......( just the christening quilt) ... I now want to dedicate one needle a day to keep me going.

I am making this thread to mark my progress. I am hoping others will joing me and declair what sewing they have done for the day when not much sewing is possible. Maybe we can inspire each other to keep going.

BTW:

It is NATIONAL SEWING DAY..... CELEBRATE BY SEWING AT YOU MACHINE OR JUST A NEEDLE'S WORTH.