This little ole longarm quilter has had quite an interesting day. Things have not worked out as I had planned today. I took a bit of a nose dive when I slipped on black ice this morning while walking the dogs. So needless to say pushing a 24” throat sewing head around the longarm quilting frame was not on the cards. I haven’t broken anything but I am very sore. I’m hoping to bounce back quickly, no pun intended.
I sat and planned out how to quilt the current quilt loaded in my system and was ready to get started this morning but that didn’t happen. And although I have been taking it easy and healing I didn’t sit doing nothing. I took a Freemotion Quilting class online with Angela Walters called Freemotion Quilting with Feathers. I thoroughly enjoyed the class and learned loads. After sitting for such a long time I decided I needed to move around a little bit and do something useful. So after a little thought I decided to clean some sewing machines. I cleaned, oiled and inserted fresh needles on three different machines. Well that took all of 30 minutes ….. Now what do I do? I never sit doing nothing. So I decided to work on my Dresden blades. I took my little bin of bits to my chair in the living room and turned the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy on and worked quietly turning 135 blades right sides out ready for pressing. The pressing will have to wait for another day. Making these Dresden Plates is a super way to Use up Your Scraps. So all in all, considering that I’m on downtime for at least today, it was quite a productive day.
Now last evening I did a little hand quilting. Here’s where I’m at now…..
The next step is to mark a design on the borders. What I have stitched so far is all my own design; I made it up as I went along using shape templates and straight rulers. I think the inner border will have a makeshift leaf design. And I haven’t decided what to put on the outer border yet.
I’ve got an interesting book to tell you about this evening. If you’re partial to blocks that contain curve piecing but have avoided them at all cost, well this might just be the book for you. The author, Elaine Waldschmidtt, included detailed instructions on how to piece a few different curvy blocks in this book called Appli-Curves. Included with this book is a DVD which contains the templates which you can print off for yourself. After having a little look in the book I have decided that it’s possibly a good easy way to approach the task of curved piecing.
Have you ever wondered what wadding to use to what? Well while I was reading posts from one of my Yahoo Users groups the Ultimate Batting Chart was mentioned. So if you’re at all curious about wadding click here; you never know you might find out something useful.
So as I said earlier, it’s been an interesting day. Although things didn’t quite work out as I had planned I still made the most of it. Tomorrow I’m hoping to be back on my feet doing what I had planned to do today.
So for this evening, this very happy longarm quilter is hoping to do a little bit of stitching on a Double Wedding Ring or perhaps I might just look at some books. Whatever you may be doing this evening, I hope you’re safely tucked up indoors. Until you read me again,
Happy stitching. ♥ ♥
Oh poor you! I hope you are well enough tomorrow to get on with your longarm work. Your handquilting looks lovely!
Hi Lucie, so sorry to hear you had a fall this morning. Thank goodness you didn’t break anything, as that’s never in the day to day plan is it! Hope you are feeling better tomorrow. – Suzy
A good nights’ sleep will hopefully help to put me right. Thanks for popping in this evening.
Ooh, that doesn’t sound nice. Hope you’re feeling better soon – always a bit of a shock when that happens. You’re so lucky you didn’t break anything. Last time I took a swan dive I broke my left elbow! Your hand quilting looks gorgeous!! Take it easy.
Thank you Meredithe.
Bummer about the black ice. I feel your pain. Really. I took the trash out the other night and slipped on the ice. I didn’t fall, but I did give myself whiplash.
I hope you feel better soon.
BTW, my husband who grew up in Michigan had never heard of the term black ice before me. I wonder if it is a common term in Canada where I grew up and not in Michigan. Hmm. Either way stay safe.
The term Black Ice was/is used regularly in Montreal where I’m from. I’m not sure where it might have originated though. You can be sure I’ll be a lot more careful when I step out today.
Oh no! I hope you are feeling much better today. You are very fortunate not to have broken something. take care and have a lovely weekend Lucie
Avis x
I took a dose of ibuprofen and had a good nights sleep. I rather stiff but I’m back at the helm of the longarm quilting system today. Thanks for your encouraging words.
Gosh, frightening to take a fall like that. Glad you were not seriously injured. Allow yourself time to heal, but keep moving so you don’t get too stiff. Wishing you an early spring full of flowers and sunshine.
Thank you stitchinggrandma. I think spring is just around the corner. I can’t wait to store the heavy winter coats away. Here’s hoping for sunshine and flowers soon.