(I just checked the cookie recipe against the pantry; no trip to the grocery store will be necessary.)
I really want to be in the sewing room, working on the wedding quilt.
Yesterday, this quilt nearly gave me heart failure.
I went into the sewing room expecting to sew the two lower quadrants together on the sewing machine. I had finished piecing the top, but I had not cut the backing or the batting for the lower left quadrant. I BARELY had enough backing left for the left quadrant, and had to splice a chunk in the batting. Luckily, before I sewed everything together, I remembered that I wanted to embroider the couple's names and wedding date on the backing. This required taking off the walking foot, changing to an embroidery foot, and installing the embroidery unit onto the machine. My niece had brought over a jacket for me to embroider her company logo on, so while I had the embroidery unit on the machine, I did the logo before taking off the embroidery equipment and re-installing the walking foot.
It was about 2:00 before I finally got around to sewing the left bottom quadrant to the right bottom quadrant, using the quilt-as-you-go method I'd seen in a video. The left quadrant backing goes right-side-up underneath the already-quilted right quadrant. The left quadrant top goes right-side down on top of the right quadrant. The seam is sewn, then left quadrant backing and top are folded out, batting is tucked between them, and then the left quadrant is quilted.
That's how it was supposed to happen.
To be on the safe side, I initially basted the two halves together. Good thing. I'd left out a row of blocks on one side and added an extra row to the other. (The really sad part is that I'd caught my mistake earlier and had made a note on the diagram to fix it before moving on.)
The weird part was that the color pattern of concentric diamonds was correct. It took me an hour to figure out where the mistake was, and another hour to correct it. By this time, it was close to margarita time. The two lower halves are laying on the sewing room table, clipped together and ready to sew (baste!). Assuming I've got it right this time, I'll add the batting and do the quilting while the cookies are baking.
In other news, some birds have finally discovered the fancy-schmancy bird feeder installed earlier this week, and pictures of their visits made it to my phone, as do pictures of me in my nightgown if I step outside for some reason. I am not sure I am comfortable with this feature. :)
On the gardening front, we still haven't planted the purple hull peas and other things I intend to grow. I may have to plant in mud if this rain keeps up. We haven't put the first dent in the pile of wood chips the tree-cutters dropped off. It may be compost by the time we get to it.
On to the sewing room . . . .
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