Frustration...

I am now qualified to give a good example of frustration. As anyone who has been reading this for a while knows, I have a couple baby quilts I need to make. I have been having a hard time getting motivated to do any of it though. But over the past week or so I have started...and while both tops should have been done in a couple days, I have been dragging my feet and had a couple other problems thrown in.

I decided the other day that the time is NOW to get them done. So yesterday and the day before I devoted a big part of my day to them. What happened the first day was all my fault...I made six blocks, and went down that night to do some preparation work for yesterday only to discover I had sewn the wrong red fabric in two blocks--even with my road map I messed up. That was frustrating enough--I spent a while ripping out the wrong fabric and I did sew in the correct fabric.

Last night I was working on the last four blocks, on the last round of strips, and when I pressed one open, I noticed that the previous color I had pressed was scorched! Looked bad! How did that happen? I had not left the iron setting on it at all, I had merely gave the strips a quick press to press them open. I had no idea if it could be washed out...thought I would give a little rub with a damp cloth. The fabric TORE!

The fabric was used in four blocks, two strips to each block. I ripped it out of every one of the blocks, and am contemplating ripping out this other fabric. I am just so disgusted. It is fabric from Joann's and while I thought it was cheap, I thought it was a step above some of the really cheap fabric. But I would hate to make the tops and them fall apart once the quilt is finished. But the other color is on the edge of the quilt and I don't know if there would be that much stress on it or not. What do you think?

Sunset

Indiana sunsets...scanned in from old photos. I hope I haven't posted any of these before. I think I have only thought about it but never actually done it.

Fabric arrival

The above box came in the mail yesterday from Thousands of Bolts--not with my boy cat in it of course, but with the fabric pictured below. The fabric pictured directly below is going to be the backing for the baby quilts. And the other fabric is just to add to my stash.

I must say that the service from Thousands of Bolts was excellent....I thought shipping a bit high but I got 15 1/2 yards of material for a total of $67, which includes shipping. I didn't so much mind the shipping--I ordered Sunday, got a call from them Monday asking about the 7 yards of fabric I ordered. They had a 6 1/2 yd piece and a yard piece, and could I work with that or did it have to be in one piece, and they would give me the 7 1/2 yards for the 7 yard price....I didn't even have to think about that and said yes. I got the fabric yesterday--so you can bet when I need something again I will think of them.

Of course, those prices were not as good a deal as a $1 a yard that Laurie and her TSB(another Laurie) found. But it is still not bad when compared to most quilt shop prices.

Well back to the basement for me--I have been sewing some today and it feels good. Hopefully I will get a lot done today.