Showing posts with label cleaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cleaning. Show all posts

1.19.2011

WIP Wednesdays

Slowly but surely working on my sister's quilt. There's so much quilting to do still. (Why do I feel like a broken record? Heh.)
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Also I'm sure you all remember this lovely little top I pulled together? I'd asked Andi to share her modified pattern with me.
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Well I have to laugh because it turns out I didn't need to after all. I'd done the BIG clean up of my sewing room which I've talked about a wee bit but what I haven't really mentioned was the residual activities of that.... I've gone though and sorted all my magazines and patterns, I've updated containers (from shoe boxes to nice little plastic pull out drawers) inside my cupboards, etc. Anyway, I found this pattern in one of my many piles of things. Look familiar?! Guess I really like it... but just not enough to remember I already had it. Ha!
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The only other thing I've worked on the past week are the QAYG blocks which I posted a bit about. I was surprised that my Bernina could not even put a DENT in trying to sew the binding between blocks. It was just too much fabric for the poor little delicate dear. I did however manage to get them all sewn up. How might you ask? The mighty little Spartan is how. Even though this was gifted to me a few months ago I haven't really had the need or excuse to use it until now. I had to fiddle with it a bit and I don't think it'd been oiled in an age! It was much happier after a bit of a cleaning and a newly wound bobbin. It had no problem plowing through all those layers of fabric then.
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7.09.2008

What a mess

My sewing room is a disaster. I've hardly had any time to get down there as it is so when the opportunity presents itself, the last thing I want to do is "waste" my time cleaning! But really, it's so totally out of hand that I can't even turn around in there let alone work productively. So I've made a deal with myself.

I have to spend 10 minutes cleaning before I can start sewing.

Before I made the Paddle Wheel block last night I did just that. I couldn't believe what a difference even ten minutes made! Not super clean by any means but not a total, total wreck either. Heh. I also spent an additional ten minutes ironing fabric that's been sitting in a heap out of the dryer waiting to be added to the stash. I hope I can make a habit out of it so it stays clean all the time!