Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Sneak Peek

As promised, I did accomplish some sewing today!  Now, I should have worked on my Hands2Help quilt, but my border fabric has not arrived yet and somehow that just killed my motivation to start on the machine appliques.  So, instead I broke out my charm pack and layer cake of Good Fortune by Kate Spain and started cutting.   I decided to make a few gifts and I doubt these pictures will give anything away...



Now before I go any further, I would like to mention that my pre-cuts did not say "for personal use only" anywhere on them.  Of course, these items are going to be for personal use as gifts.  I am not selling them, nor am I benefiting financially from posting a picture of them. I just don't want Ms. Spain coming after me!  You know what I mean???

As glad as I am that whole Kate Spain mess is over, I agree with Leah Day's post from last month, that in a way it is a shame that it did not play out it court.  The whole thing raises a lot of questions that add stress to the quilting community.  For that reason, I doubt that I will be buying anymore of her fabric.  It is a bummer because I really like her designs.  Just my personal choice of action, people!  I know many people that feel passionately about one side or the other. 

Changing the subject...when you have bought pre-cuts in the past, has this happened to anyone else??




I was looking through my layer cake to pick out some of the duplicate prints and I find that one is completely missing about 1 1/2 inches!  I know it says on the package that some variation can occur, but an inch and a half!!!  And I counted, this isn't an "extra" square.  It's also not the first time this has happened to me either.  I had a charm pack recently that was missing part of a square.  Thank goodness I wasn't following a pattern that needed each square inch of fabric!


Monday, April 16, 2012

I broke my butt!

No, that's not code for something.

Spring break is officially over; the kids went back to school today, and I got a chance to actually think about sewing. Unfortunately, over the break I managed to injure myself attempting to snowboard. I know what you are thinking, "Jen, you are no spring chicken, why did you decide to take up snowboarding?" Well, in my defense, I am a decent skier. But, while learning snowboarding, you tend to spend a good amount of time on your bottom, and I managed to hit mine extra hard and broke my tailbone. The six hour drive home was not pleasant, but I am already starting to feel a little better. I sat at my sewing machine for an hour today without too much pain. Tomorrow, I plan to get even more done and I will try to get some pictures posted of something interesting....

Perhaps at the very least a glimpse of some of the fabric I bought after Lent was over.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Spring Break

Well, yesterday I managed to break our computer. I really don't know how I manage to do these things, but DH was NOT happy. I even broke it so well, that it wouldn't even turn on! That's how good I am with computers. I am now only able to post via mobile device. So you might not be hearing from me often for the next week or so. Yesterday was also the first day of Spring Break for the girls, so I have given my sewing machine a vacation too. I did manage to get some of my appliqué shapes cut out for my Hands2help quilt, but they will have to wait a week before anything else happens with them.

Happy Spring Break and Happy Easter to everyone!

Be back soon!