SEWING MACHINE CONFESSIONS AND PLEATED BLOCK NIGHTMARES

Having finished most of my current projects I hauled my smaller Bernina 480 sewing machine off to have a good cleaning.  I am ashamed to say time flies and it had not been to the doctor for a good checkup for nearly 5 years.  I do vacuum it regularly and oil it, but that really was no excuse, and the technition gave me a well deserved lecture.  My Bernina 750 needs to see him now too and fortunately that length of time has not gone by that long.

I got my February Sherri McConnell 2025 Block of the Month completed.  I am not sure I am into this project.  I may pass these two blocks on to a friend and let her deal with them.  

I did pull out this project that was started years ago.  I love the fabric choices but the blocks are really odd and they have sat in a drawer now for years.  However, I decided this past week to get them put together and off my TO DO SOMEDAY LIST.  

The twisted  block construction was odd to say the least.  They were a nightmare to sew together and whoever the poor quilter is that has to quilt them I feel sorry for.  I have it all bagged up and it is going to my charity group.  I plan to slip it into the completed quilt tops stack at our next meeting and hope no one knows it was me.

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NEW TABLERUNNERS AND PLACEMATS

 This week after finishing my king size bedspread, shams, and deco pillows has me finally getting into tackling some projects that really need to be worked on.  

I have a quit top all started with these Eclectic Elements by Jim Holtz.  It is just needing borders on it to finish it up.  Hopefully I will have it finished and ready to post next week.  However I ended up with 12 extra blocks left over.  I made two of these table runners with them that are 27" by 18".  Seemed a shame to waste them.

My husband is my color expert so is my shopping sidekick.  He saw this fabric at Hobby Lobby and decided it would be a great choice for placemats at our diner table.  So that is a quick project to get going this week. One done and three to go.

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TWO PROJECTS FINISHED

 I finished the bedspread at last.  A done job.  Hope to get started on some new fun projects and I do have a couple that just need a bit here and there before going to the quilters.  

What an ordeal but so worth the effort.  Fits the bed perfectly and no need to use a bed ruffle any longer.  Will I ever do something like this again Well, probably NO!

I finished Acrobat.  There was a bit of a decision as to whether to use the block on the right side third row.  The stripes do not match.  Many of you bloggers commented and said to leave it in.  Once I also had a second one the right side top row block, I figure why not it is a bit off too.  They seem to fit right in with no real issues.  Nice to have it finished and off to my charity group to finish it.

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THE KING SIZE BED SPREAD PROJECT

A few weeks ago I got my bedspread, shams, and deco pillows back from the quilter.  I got the deco pillows finished with their envelope backs two weeks ago .

Then this past week finally managed to get both shams completed with their envelope backs as well.

I will admit I have been trying to avoid binding the quilt. So I decided with left over fabric to make some table runners for a small table in our bedroom's sitting room, and both night stands and the dresser top.

This is the one that is on the little table in our sitting room.  The others are similar just different sizes to match the night stands and dresser tops.

Well last week I finally had no choice but to work on binding the bedspread.  Binding a 100" by 120" quilt looked like a nightmare.  I moved my machine to the dining room table on Saturday morning and went for it.  I added to the difficulty by rounding the two bottom corners.  I was not going to use bias binding for the entire thing, so only cut two, 24 inches of bias binding and placed that around those two corners and then cut standard binding for the rest of it.  I just joined the bias binding sections to the straight cut binding as I sewed around on each side.  In the end it worked perfectly and was not as awful of a chore as I thought it would be.  Now to finish the binding by hand, a chore I do not mind doing at all.  I don't think I will ever do something like this again, but it really is beautiful and the colors perfect for our bedroom. 

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