Home Again

Back home again, but I've had to dive right into quilting 2 quilts for a friend. One was a Bluey cot quilt, very cute, but the other is a King Size one and it's taxing my reserves. The backing had to be pieced out of three lengths of fabric and it was so heavy I could barely manage it. It took forever to iron too, but at last it was loaded on the frame. 

I ironed the top and put the batting in place, set up the panto and it's ready to quilt tomorrow. Unfortunately I have to bind bind both quilts, but once that's done I don't have any more jobs until after Christmas. Thank heavens.

I was 2 clues behind in Bonnie's mystery, so I have been cutting pieces for that whenever I have a spare moment. I decided that I was going to use some of my oldest fabrics and get them out of the stash drawers at last. I was also going to raid my scraps first, and try to use the ironed fabric hanging on the racks and in the scrap drawers. 

For the HSTs in Clue 3 I decided to use the 8-at-a-time method so that I would have 2 sets from every pair of squares. It was so fast; I know they need to be trimmed, but I choose to trim them no matter what method I use. At least this method doesn't have bias edges, and the initial cutting was really quick.

I'm only making a quarter of the units because I know I won't have time to do them all. But I'll probably catch up after Christmas. I'm wanting to add green into the mix of colours, but I'll need to see the overall design before I choose what I want to replace with green. It's certainly taken the pressure off, with the smaller amount of units to piece.

Trimming, trimming, trimming.....

I was having withdrawal symptoms in Adelaide without my sewing. The closest I got was helping Seonaid with the costumes for Thomas's class for the school concert.

40 pirate bandanas and cumberbunds, all torn because we couldn't find the fabric scissors or the acrylic ruler. Oh well, we had a good afternoon chatting and ripping and clipping all the threads.

I found graph books for the boys, so they could draw up Minecraft figures. Thomas presented me with this.

He's going to be some sort of engineer in later life, he has such a methodical mind. Before he could play with his book he had to map out some colour theory on the first page.  Actually I think he could make a very pedantic lecturer or professor; I can't count how many times I've thought, 'Don't tell your grandmother how to suck eggs' as he explains to me how to butter bread, or make a taco, or peel a boiled egg, or turn a tap on.  But he does it to share what he knows, to process it logically, and organise all the steps needed. He's a very thoughtful child.

And, he's the one who can use the TV remote when Nan is mystified by it; I'm humbled by his superior knowledge.