Iceblossom

Hooray for Tuesday! My sewing group is meeting again but I am officially caught up on Clue 7.

I know my seams were a bit scant and while I shouldn't need to, I am going to look at my Clue 6 blocks to see if any slivers need to be trimmed off. Maybe I can figure out why some of my rectangle points are so awful... the rectangles at least are the correct size even if some of my points are way short. If I were to do over/was more concerned with exactness, this is the sort of thing I will do with paper piecing.

Then I'll have a couple hours to find something to put together to do at group... maybe I will work on my permanent block labels -- I label my blocks Alpha across and Numbers down with markers, I started making a permanent set using beads and safety pins and am about 1/2 done with them, this is a project where I really have to be low on options to work on!

My newish main sewing machine is still just a year old and I'm still getting used to it. I was having an issue where although my stitches were still good, the thread jumped out of the guide by the needle. I had to do a bobbin filling and cleaning and got out my manual to do a careful re-threading -- and I did find a problem (I wasn't correctly in the tension disc), it hasn't happened again since the re-do. I'm also finding that even if the needle is fairly new, when my thread starts breaking annoyingly often, it is worth changing the needle like on the 2nd or 3rd time it happens in one sewing session. Think I'm on my fourth one for this project, maybe getting about 6 hours of use? Still cheap compared to the aggravation of having to constantly re-thread, even with the assist with my vision it is just not fun or easy.