Yes I'm that excited. I finished my test pattern and sent off the results. I tried a new to me method of doing the binding on it and I have to say that I think it turned out quite well. You'll see it after it has appeared in the magazine. This method isn't new but I have, up to this point, always sewn my binding by hand (both the front and back). It's only been within the last year that I have even started to mitre my corners! Guess I must be learning stuff huh? THIS time, however, I sewed the front on by machine and then stitched the back of the binding down by hand. I had found a tutorial on it that made sense to me. I am still having problems in joining the two end pieces together but I will figure it out eventually. In the meantime my seam ripper isn't far from me.
That triumph lit that spark in me again and I looked at how far behind I am on the BOMs that I wanted to do. Sigh. I did realize that in Angie's Bug Off! BOM why I haven't finished the caterpillar. I didn't like it. Oh it's cute and I sort of liked how I had it laid out and stuff but not enough to continue to work on it. Hello Mr. Seam Ripper. I unpicked what I had fused on and then had a brainy idea. I found some fabric that I wanted to use because in MY mind, Mr. Caterpillar was actually an inch worm. I know...I know...inch worms don't have antennae. Still I had to use this fabric! So I think Mr. Caterpillar is either auditioning Halloween costumes or, because of the notoriety he is getting from being featured in Bug Off!, he is going undercover.
I will work on him this weekend and even put in his antennae.
Another BOM block that I will be working on is the Tea Party BOM. I might be redoing the tea cup, I'm not sure yet, but I did find material that I like for the teapot which is March's block. I chose this fabric because it is similar to the pattern on one of the teapots that I have from my grandmother.
This is the BOM that I did that cake/cake stand for. That might be redone because I found a fabric that has hummingbirds on it and my sense of humor says my cake might end up being a hummingbird cake. LOL. Plus I'm not happy with the background fabric so might have to change that out. I am thinking I will both white on white and offwhite/beige on offwhite/beige for the background blocks. Give it a little different look and dimension.
The other thing that I did different this weekend was that I printed the teapot up on Heat n Bond....pre-cut sheets. I use Heat n Bond but haven't used the pre-cut sheets before. The directions say to take out the copy paper and put one sheet of the Heat n Bond in the printer. My printed didn't like that. The Heat n Bond was too thin and the rollers wouldn't grab it so I put the regular copy paper back in behind the one sheet of Heat n Bond and it worked quite well.
I won't use the pre-cut sheets often because most designers spread out the individual pieces you need and it would have too much waste. I wouldn't normally use it for this either since the opposite problem exists. There wasn't ANY space between the pieces. That's ok. Even though some people think that I wasted paper and fabric, I can trace over the paper that is fused on the fabric for another project. Did that make sense? I'm sure you know what I meant to say anyway. :)
I'm going to stop here so I can rest my wrist. Yesterday, my wrist popped when I was stretching. It's ok but tender and I want to take it easy on it today. It is wrapped up for more support.
So everybody have a great weekend and I'll check in tomorrow.
That triumph lit that spark in me again and I looked at how far behind I am on the BOMs that I wanted to do. Sigh. I did realize that in Angie's Bug Off! BOM why I haven't finished the caterpillar. I didn't like it. Oh it's cute and I sort of liked how I had it laid out and stuff but not enough to continue to work on it. Hello Mr. Seam Ripper. I unpicked what I had fused on and then had a brainy idea. I found some fabric that I wanted to use because in MY mind, Mr. Caterpillar was actually an inch worm. I know...I know...inch worms don't have antennae. Still I had to use this fabric! So I think Mr. Caterpillar is either auditioning Halloween costumes or, because of the notoriety he is getting from being featured in Bug Off!, he is going undercover.
I will work on him this weekend and even put in his antennae.
Another BOM block that I will be working on is the Tea Party BOM. I might be redoing the tea cup, I'm not sure yet, but I did find material that I like for the teapot which is March's block. I chose this fabric because it is similar to the pattern on one of the teapots that I have from my grandmother.
This is the BOM that I did that cake/cake stand for. That might be redone because I found a fabric that has hummingbirds on it and my sense of humor says my cake might end up being a hummingbird cake. LOL. Plus I'm not happy with the background fabric so might have to change that out. I am thinking I will both white on white and offwhite/beige on offwhite/beige for the background blocks. Give it a little different look and dimension.
The other thing that I did different this weekend was that I printed the teapot up on Heat n Bond....pre-cut sheets. I use Heat n Bond but haven't used the pre-cut sheets before. The directions say to take out the copy paper and put one sheet of the Heat n Bond in the printer. My printed didn't like that. The Heat n Bond was too thin and the rollers wouldn't grab it so I put the regular copy paper back in behind the one sheet of Heat n Bond and it worked quite well.
I won't use the pre-cut sheets often because most designers spread out the individual pieces you need and it would have too much waste. I wouldn't normally use it for this either since the opposite problem exists. There wasn't ANY space between the pieces. That's ok. Even though some people think that I wasted paper and fabric, I can trace over the paper that is fused on the fabric for another project. Did that make sense? I'm sure you know what I meant to say anyway. :)
I'm going to stop here so I can rest my wrist. Yesterday, my wrist popped when I was stretching. It's ok but tender and I want to take it easy on it today. It is wrapped up for more support.
So everybody have a great weekend and I'll check in tomorrow.
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