Friday, August 24, 2018

Friday....

So sad when you don't get to play with the sewing machine all week! Good thing I have hand work projects prepped.

Row 11 of 16 got stitched together yesterday at my first day of bowling. Here they are all laid out and sewn into sets of 2 rows.  Ignore Peanut's tail at the bottom! Ollie is holding down the rows for me. Yes, the cats are probably brothers and look very much alike but the personalities are complete opposites.

Somehow.. despite laying them out and trying not to get the same fabrics right next to each other.... I have one or two that got switched around. Do I like it - no. Will I change it.... nope! That is just how scrappy quilts are sometimes! Trust me.. I tried moving the rows of 2 around and it just causes more fabrics hitting at the same spot so it will stay like this.

I have one more row prepped to work on. I think this might go with me tomorrow to a gs recruitment for a few hours. I might have time to hand stitch the sets of 2 into sets of 4 while I am there for 4 hours. I agreed to do this one since it is inside a building with AC. The temps in Florida reach 'feels like 100+' by 10AM and I do not deal well with heat.  I'm going to set up a couple of games my girls came up with to earn one badge and will pull together some other things from journey's and badges we have done.


8 comments:

QUILTING IS BLISSFUL, DI said...

I have sooo been there--you work and work and are sure no two fabrics are together and then you get it all stitched and by golly--someone turned things around and there is matching prints side by side--grrrr!!!
that is alovely quilt--
enjoy, di

Ray and Jeanne said...

It's looking good! So what if the fabrics touch each other - it just looks more random! At least that's my explanation when it happens to me. ~Jeanne

Julierose said...

My scrappy quilts end up better if i don't try to move the blocks/pieces around too. i just get a sore neck if I try it...;)))
Very nice how this is coming along....hugs for a happy weekend...Julierose

Kate said...

Looks like you are moving right along with this scrappy project. Hopefully you'll get some stitching in tomorrow.

The Joyful Quilter said...

Nice progress on the quilt and smart thinking on signing up for the INDOOR recruitment!!!

Chopin - A Passionate Quilter said...

Coming along! We have been in the 100's and high humidity and higher heat indexes. This has been the summer from hell and if I can get in my 30 minutes of walking in before 8:30 I can do it! I am so ready for winter if we have one!

Carla A Few Of My Favorite Things said...

Oh I have the same thing happen My only rule trying to keep the same fabric from not being next to each other and I fail. But in the end I don't worry about it. Your making great progress

The Joyful Quilter said...

It will be done when it's done. Just keep quilting!!