Mansfield Roller Mill

We went for a drive late this evening, and even threw our fishing line in the water--no luck. This is one of our favorite places to wade the creek and fish for small mouth bass. No wading today of course. I wish you could hear the roar of the water coming over the dam....it was almost deafening.

Quilt finished

One is finished--it is being taken to the baby shower tomorrow. I started machine quilting it last night, got almost done and my thread started shredding. I was using Coats and Clark...I seem to have trouble with it whenever I use it to free motion quilt. I quit because I was tired, and got up and started this morn. I have not done much else today/yesterday except work on this. I started about 9:00 a.m. and finally finished the binding at 2:00 a.m. Not a mistake on the time--I started 9:00 on Friday morn and just finished a couple hours ago and it is now Saturday. It has been washed and dried....I always have to wash a quilt the first time. I have a fear of one either falling apart or the colors running. If this doesn't make much sense, I am too tired to think straight.

I use a spray bottle and make a mixture of retayne and water and spritz the whole thing down, plus I use a color catcher in the wash. So far, I have had good luck this way. These are not very good pictures but at this time in the morn, I was making myself get these cause I know it leaves here early tomorrow morn. My daughter goes to work, and stops for the baby shower on her way home.

You got to enlarge this picture--you may have even seen it before. But remember when my two babies were this small? Every time I run across this picture I almost laugh out loud. They were just totally passed out...have that goofy look with their eyes half open but they are really out of it. They had been playing hard!

Otherwise, I didn't start quilting till tonight...I am just doing a loop-d-loop design with 5-point stars thrown in. I should have spent more time warming up, cause some of the quilting is kind of herky-jerky. But it will hold the layers together and be fine for a baby to roll around on. It is a bit more than a baby quilt...should call it a kid quilt.

My thread started shredding before I got done--I seem to have problems with Coats and Clark thread when free motion quilting...but it was all that was available at Joann's the other day. I am going to change my needle to a top-stitch needle tomorrow and see if that helps. It also might be that I was getting tired.

Maybe I will have something finished tomorrow.