Welcome to any new readers who may have found their way here from SewMamaSew! A few weeks back I was contacted by Beth at SewMamaSew asking me if they could feature my "I love to Make Houses" Quilt
in their upcoming Scrap Buster Month on the blog. Of course, I said, "Yes!" Pretty cool!
Unfortunately, things have been all but cool in my sewing room lately (except for the temperature in the morning before I turn on the lights which tend to heat the room up!)
But I am trying to keep this blog rated "family" so I will keep the four letter words to a minimum.
I worked a bit on my Dear Jane blocks which I am happy to report now number 49!!!!
This block, J1 "Josepha's Jonquil" was reverse appliqued, and my points are improving...
but this block, A10 'Which Points West?" was a real bugger and I am so unhappy with its outcome!!! I suppose the name of this block suits it but I am not sure where the points are pointing!!!!
The logs are lopsided and the triangles are not very neatly curved near the center. Oh! Ssss....CRAP!!!
Someday, when I am feeling strong again, I will re-attempt this block.....and so, I decided it was time to put aside my Dear Jane project.
I have been in the mood to make some clothing lately and so I dusted off Jenny, my Janome serger. I gave her some oil too!
And then I thought I would practice... and that is when things went bad!!! My upper looper thread kept breaking, my fabric was all bunched up, my left top thread wasn't sewing properly....
I tried rethreading the machine...
many times!
I adjusted the four tension discs...
and then, I walked away! Oh ssss.... CRAP!!!
Time to move on to something else..............and so, I went over to my scrap boxes...
and it seems that with all my summer sewing projects, I have accumulated even more scraps!!!!
I got out my freezer paper paper piecing pattern for my scrappy log cabins...
and I easily....
whipped up....
five....
scrappy....
log cabins blocks...
If I have counted correctly, I now have 94 scrappy log cabin blocks!!!
I still have many more to make since I plan to piece them into a king-sized quilt.
I am thinking that I will put white sashing between the 6" finished blocks but according to my calculations, there are still a lot more log cabin blocks in my future! Oh! Sssss....CRAP!
Finally, it is really fall here in upstate NY and I can no longer deny it!
On the way home from the gym (and some errands too... since it is a sleep-in day for the kids!), the car told me that it was below freezing!
Time to put away my flip flops!!! Oh! Ssss...CRAP!!!
The house had the first-heat-on-in-the-house-for-the-season smell this morning.
But fall does bring some wonderful color to this area!
Trying to stay warm and out of ssss...CRAPsss way,
Too funny! You had me giggling. sCRAP, indeed!
ReplyDeleteHey......I said sssssssCRAP with my bad-luck in recent months with my not-a-year-old Janome sewing machine. I hope you are not falling victim to the "Janome-bad-machine" curse!!! I LOVE the hillside photo in this post.....GREAT color there!!! Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteUh-oh. It looks like your "s" key is sssticking! LOL pokey
ReplyDeleteOh Lisa, you had me cracking up !
ReplyDeleteGirl, you are too funny! Let me ask you, does your husband call your work space the CRAPROOM, like mine does? hehe
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter if you use sCRAP or not. It doesn't matter what you do, your work is really awesome and perfect. That is what first drew me to your blog. Love the houses. It is no wonder Sew Mama Sew wanted you.
ReplyDeleteHey come to your site via the DLN quilt along and was reading your sCRAP and had a little chuckle - I had a sCRAP sewing weekend sewing machine trouble, quilts tops not behaving and, well the list goes on. Love your quilt header and i love the bright sCRAP you have on your blog! Keep up the sCRAP work I love it!
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