No sewing for 10 days
07-12-2014, 08:27 AM
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No sewing for 10 days
Headed to Colorado without a sewing machine! What will I do??!! (Other than drive my mother around!).
Will just have to buy lots of fabric to touch and smell and maybe roll around in.
Margaret
07-12-2014, 02:27 PM
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Well, my flight got cancelled, so it's only 9 days now! I'm going to go quilt like mad for a few hours.
I'd like to try the hexes, but I don't have the templates or the paper you use. I haven't ever done them before, but it does sound like a fun thing. My fine motor skills aren't as good as they used to be due to arthritis, but if I just planned to finish the quilt in about 8 years I could probably do it!
I'd like to try the hexes, but I don't have the templates or the paper you use. I haven't ever done them before, but it does sound like a fun thing. My fine motor skills aren't as good as they used to be due to arthritis, but if I just planned to finish the quilt in about 8 years I could probably do it!
07-12-2014, 04:22 PM
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Bring paper and design something new.
Quickly pin a top that is done and do some hand quilting
Organize (in your head) the sewing room to be more efficient.
Relax and give your hands a vacation.
Quickly pin a top that is done and do some hand quilting
Organize (in your head) the sewing room to be more efficient.
Relax and give your hands a vacation.
07-13-2014, 03:14 AM
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How about doing what I am doing - my project for the summer -- I am cross stitch embroidering a 48x48 Christmas quilt. My brain is machine sewing, but I am sitting in a rocking chair on the deck with my Marie Bostwick audiobooks and a nice glass of Chardonnay or Auslese, cross-stitching my little heart out. I have been working on this for about four years now and probably by 2020 I will finish. No, I'll get it done. I have until the 21st of September to get as much as I can done and then I set it aside for when I go somewhere or have to wait for someone in the doctor's office or something. Then I get a few stitches in and inch by inch, it'll get done. You can get kits to sew them up - comes with thread and everything. Mine came with 26 different colors - Actually "Merry Christmas" has three shades of red! And I don't like holly or holly berries anymore!!!!!!!!! I am heading to Milwaukee in September and can't decide whether to bring my treasured (from my husband) stork scissors for clipping, or bringing the old toenail clipper. I like the scissors and it has only 1" of sharp, but it is my treasure and I am assuming that other sewers/quilters use the nail clippers only because they don't want their favorite scissors confiscated! I guess it'll be the toenail clippers!!!!! One flight I took not too long ago; the stewardess wouldn't let me sew because she didn't want me to poke my eye with the needle in case of an emergency - Heck, if I am going to die in an airplane crash would a needle save my life? Duhhhhhh!!!!!! Safe Trip. Edie
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