Settling In

I am now somewhat back to a normal routine. If you consider replacing zippers, patching jeans, altering formal gowns and other such sewing a routine. When I last posted I talked about all the things I had plans to do. Out of all those things I have started two of them. The 4-H project and one of the t-shirt quilts.

On the t-shirt quilt I am considering backing it with polar fleece which would eliminate the need for separate batting and backing. It would certainly make it easier to quilt on my sewing machine. I don't yet have a fancy quilting machine. That's a way down the road someday thing. Even if I had one, I don't have a place to put it anyway, unless Barry finishes off the garage into a workshop for me. Which, by the way, he claims he would like to do for me someday. . . when we are rich and famous.

On this quilt I only have 6 t-shirt blocks to work with so I have to beef it up a bit. I've cut them into 12-1/2" squares and plan on adding strips around the edges in log cabin fashion to make them into 18" squares. Then I'll sew all those together in a two by three grid and the borders around that will make up the difference into a twin size quilt. I plan on continuing the log cabin routine with borders too. Tonights project is to get the strips cut for the log cabin around the t-shirt blocks.

The 4-H project is my daughter's project. She is making a display for all of her Tae Kwon Do belts. We have found an old narrow bulletin board which was green. She painted it all white. Then she is going to cover it in white fabric similar to the weight of fabric in her uniform. She may decide to use her uniform since she is about to out grow it. Anyway, she is then going to tie the belts around the board as if the board is wearing the belts. Her first rank will be at the bottom and her last completed highest rank will be at the top. I am anxious for her to finish it. It should be very cute and unique. Don't worry I will be posting pictures of both projects.

Ta Ta for now and have a great day.