Been Busy

In addition to a bit of travel, this week has been productive for me. We have been on vacation.  Will post more soon.

Weekend Project

I took this:

And made this:

I am planning to make a padded cover to go over the tubing part. Want to make it to match the cover.

Simple Sewing And A Switch

After making the cover for the Featherweight Case yesterday, I was still in the mood to sew. I finished putting the sashing between the rows of the first nursing home quilt.  I don't have enough of the sashing fabric to use for a border so I will pick something else out.

The 301 is still skipping stitches.  Giving it a rest for a bit. I put Grace in the table. She is a little shorter than Clarice but other than that, she fits just fine.

I love the way she sounds.

Saturday Project

I saw a video on YouTube on how to make a quilted, zippered, carrying case to go over a Featherweight Case.  I didn't have the exact same materials required, but I found similar items.  It called for a visible on both sides foam. Without driving an hour, or waiting days for mail order, I found a one sided feasible foam locally.

One issue I ran into was that it did not come in a wide enough width.  I just pieced things together to make it work.

My Featherweight Case does not have a handle strap. I have an idea on how to make one.

Gleaning Information

That word looks funny - gleaning.

But that's what I have been doing.  I have been gleaning information from various sources, trying to find a solution to the skipped stitch issue I'm having with the 301.  It's kind of become an obsession.

Raspberry Cheese Pie

I got into a cooking mood last night and made this raspberry cream cheese pie!  Yum!  The recipe was on Mennonite Girls Can Cook website.  It was easy and very tasty!

Dinner last night was tilapia in foil packets on the grill with zuccinni and red peppers and rice.  Good stuff.  Also made Ev a couple egg and cheese and ham sandwiches for work today.  He's not to thrilled about taking fish to work.

Didn't do any sewing yesterday.  After all the cooking, I was ready to relax for a while.

I Was Just Going To Cut Squares

I was just going to go upstairs, cut enough 10" squares for one nursing home quilt, and quit.  Well, the magic aura that is in my sewing room hypnotized me and I ended up not only cutting the squares, but cutting the sashing strips for in between the rows, and sewing the sashing and squares all into rows!

These are the finished rows before I pressed them.  It was too hot to stay upstairs any length of time without air conditioning, which is what I would have had to do if I wanted to press them last night.  This morning before work I went up and pressed them.  And sewed the sashing strips for in between the rows together.  I almost started sewing them to the rows, but I looked at the time and figured if I started I wouldn't want to stop and would be really late for work!

The fabrics are just out of my stash.  Not sure where the light blue floral came from, but the dark blue was a double wide backing remnant from a quilt I made a while back.  The pink sashing was also stash fabric of an unknown orgin.  It has little bees on it.

Not that the fabrics have to make sense, but I reasoned they could go together because the flowers attracted the bees and the blue was sky or water.

If I get upstairs tonight, and that's a big if since the temps outside are supposed to reach 100 degrees today - that window air conditioner can only help so much - I should be able to finish one top.  My goal is to have three tops finished by the end of July, so this will be a good start.  At this rate, I may have all five tops done by then!

I supposed I could bring the work downstairs and finish the quilt on Polly.  That may be what I do tonight.

Slow Day

Been a hot weather day and I feel like I'm moving through sludge.  Ugh.  Last night I did a little more tweaking on the 301 to see if I could fix the skipped stitches issue.  Not sure if I did any good or not because it was too hot up there to really test it out for very long.

I did pick out several fabrics to use on the nursing home quilts for this year.  Just planning to do 10 inch squares with maybe a 2 inch sashing.  I want something quick and easy.

Trains And Automobiles

On my way to work today I got caught by a freight train.  It just seemed to go on forever!  Sigh.  It really wasn't that long, but it seemed like it while I was waiting.  When I left my house, I could hear the engines gaining power and getting ready to start pulling the freight cars.  It must have been sitting on the siding not far from home.

Garage Sale Project

This wall hanging has been laying around my sewing room, half finished, for years!  The words across the top needed to be stitched, a backing applied, binding, and hanging sleeve.  Here it is up to the hanging sleeve.  I think it turned out pretty good, for just a quick finish.

It will go into the rotation of wall hanging that I have in my front room.  Probably wait until Fall, because of the pumpkins in it.