Craft, of course!
How's everybody doing?
For me, today was one of those perfect crafting days. It's President's Day, which means work was closed, and it was snowing, but it was one of those snows where it was big flakes falling gently with no real accumulation (Probably an inch on the cars- nothing on the pavement. Even in my plow-happy complex, the plows didn't come out for it.)
So, on a day with no work and picturesque snow, what's a girl to do?
Craft, of course!
As much as I love making quilts, I hate binding. Hate, hate hate them. Which is why I have 4 quilts done, but needing binding. (That number goes up to five if you count another quilt that is done, except for the quilting and the binding.)
So, with this perfect opportunity of a day, I decided to take the bull by the horns, and do something about those unfinished quilts. And I didn't set an unreasonable goal either: if nothing else, but the binding was attached, I would be happy.
But what's that saying? The best laid plans of mice and men?
I'm going to preface this section by stating this: my sewing machine? Temperamental. When it works, it works great. When it doesn't, it reduces me to a three year old without a nap.
And when it decides not to work, it's for a different reason each time.
So, after I had gone food shopping and cleaned the kitchen, set up everything I needed to stay organized (lay out table, ironing board, quilts with their respective bindings... I then proceeded to spend approximately two hours fighting the machine, only to discover what today's temper tantrum was about... it didn't like the spool of thread I was using.
After that, attaching the binding of the first quilt went splendidly. I watched a tutorial put out by the Missouri Star Quilting Company, and the corners were a breeze. And then I got to the end of the binding; the part where I have to connect the two ends.
I think I spent an hour trying to figure that out. No matter how many tutorials I looked at, I couldn't figure out how to get the two pieces to connect and then lay flat afterwords. (I think I finally figured it out by laying one side down, folding it back in the way I needed it to go, lined up the second one, folded it against the first strip so it matched, and then pinned and sewed. And it worked perfectly.)
All told, what should have taken 2 hours tops took me like, 7 (I'm including food and bathroom breaks. I shouldn't have needed to stop to take care of natures needs!).
I started my second quilt, but again, tension problems. That one was easily solved by replacing the bobbin.
In the end, I didn't get all four quilt bindings attached, but I did get two.
I'm satisfied with that.
For me, today was one of those perfect crafting days. It's President's Day, which means work was closed, and it was snowing, but it was one of those snows where it was big flakes falling gently with no real accumulation (Probably an inch on the cars- nothing on the pavement. Even in my plow-happy complex, the plows didn't come out for it.)
So, on a day with no work and picturesque snow, what's a girl to do?
Craft, of course!
As much as I love making quilts, I hate binding. Hate, hate hate them. Which is why I have 4 quilts done, but needing binding. (That number goes up to five if you count another quilt that is done, except for the quilting and the binding.)
So, with this perfect opportunity of a day, I decided to take the bull by the horns, and do something about those unfinished quilts. And I didn't set an unreasonable goal either: if nothing else, but the binding was attached, I would be happy.But what's that saying? The best laid plans of mice and men?
I'm going to preface this section by stating this: my sewing machine? Temperamental. When it works, it works great. When it doesn't, it reduces me to a three year old without a nap.
And when it decides not to work, it's for a different reason each time.
So, after I had gone food shopping and cleaned the kitchen, set up everything I needed to stay organized (lay out table, ironing board, quilts with their respective bindings... I then proceeded to spend approximately two hours fighting the machine, only to discover what today's temper tantrum was about... it didn't like the spool of thread I was using.
After that, attaching the binding of the first quilt went splendidly. I watched a tutorial put out by the Missouri Star Quilting Company, and the corners were a breeze. And then I got to the end of the binding; the part where I have to connect the two ends.
I think I spent an hour trying to figure that out. No matter how many tutorials I looked at, I couldn't figure out how to get the two pieces to connect and then lay flat afterwords. (I think I finally figured it out by laying one side down, folding it back in the way I needed it to go, lined up the second one, folded it against the first strip so it matched, and then pinned and sewed. And it worked perfectly.)All told, what should have taken 2 hours tops took me like, 7 (I'm including food and bathroom breaks. I shouldn't have needed to stop to take care of natures needs!).
I started my second quilt, but again, tension problems. That one was easily solved by replacing the bobbin.
In the end, I didn't get all four quilt bindings attached, but I did get two.
I'm satisfied with that.
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