I was able to grab about an hour and a half in my sewing room today, which was enough time to finish piecing the top of the baby quilt I had set aside in order to play with the AccuQuilt. No sense in making myself new projects while I still had the baby quilt guilting me from its place on the design wall.
If I’m in the mood tomorrow, I’ll do the backing and basting on it. I hate hate hate doing on backing, although for a baby quilt it’s not as bad. (I hate dealing with large pieces of fabric.) I hate only slightly less the basting process. So I’ll have to stay on top of myself to keep myself from procrastinating at this stage.
And then it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve machine quilted so I have to do a couple of practice sandwiches first just to make sure I’m back in the grove. I think I’ll just be doing a mid-sized meander on this puppy. We’ll see what I get in the mood for once I’m working on the practice pieces.
I used this as an opportunity to test out some pins I’d gotten in a couple of Sew Sampler boxes recently. One was a small collection of double pins for doing seams. I’ve never used those before, so I figured, what the hey. The only seams I was trying to match were with the cornerstones.
I’ve decided I hate double pins.
I went back to the way my mommy taught me to pin seams.
Then I tried another set of pins, this time with cute unicorn tops.
There were only 10 in the package, and they’re somewhat thicker than the pins I typically use.
They’re cute, but not particularly functional in my sewing life. I could see, someday, if I ever make any of those adorable pincushions I keep seeing patterns for, sticking these in it and gifting them. So I’m not getting rid of them, just not using them much.
Anyone have cute ideas for what to do with them in the meanwhile?