Gaining
On this Monday the studio lights came on at 9:30 this morning. Before I drifted off to sleep last night, I had planned on the borders I would need to add to the 4″ bocks that would be the bulk of the quilt back. I had enough of two of the printed fabrics that had been made use of in the 4″ blocks.
Oh yes, the lights were on in the studio, but the last thing on my mind was sewing. There was a trickle of water from the north wall making its way to the floor drain. I do tend to go ballistic when it involves water where it shouldn’t be. The water was coming from our small refrigerator. Before I began to put something on the floor, I stuck a thermometer in the freezer compartment. Next came some old towels for the freezer compartment as that is where the water was coming from. We were having a defrosting event. The control was turned to the highest setting, all remained silent. I pulled the plug. The reading was 60 degrees and I knew I needed to get the contents up the steps into our main floor unit.
Tidy, tidy and we were back in business. The floor is dry and after cleaning the interior and letting the doors open to make sure all was dry inside. Thoughts of sewing returned.
Long about noon, I did plug the refrigerator back in to see if the morning had been a fluke. Nothing and the plug was again pulled. I think us two older ones will get by just fine with one refrigerator in the house.
I now do have the borders sewn on with enough extra inches so the top and batting can easily be fitted on. Nothing would be worse than to have the sandwiching of back, batting and top pinned together to only find out the backing was short. Better to trim a bit off than try and back-step to add on.
The mail this afternoon delivered the quilt batting. I may open the package and let the batting breath after the scrunch involved with shipping. Yup . . . I am gaining.
With that I take my leave. ♥