Getting Closer
It may be a real chiller outside, but there is progress at Stauffer Avenue’s sewing studio. As these days have progressed on a current project I have focused on the good aspects of my work and the good has gotten better.
I really felt an attraction to the Victorian Santas and from there this project evolved. Printing out the photos on fabric went very well. Piecing the quilt top went very well. As with any endeavor it is the final chapters that either makes or breaks a project so it is desirable to the eye. In anticipation of the quilting it didn’t seem a good thing to quilt over the images of the Santas. It would have taken away from them being the focal aspect of the quilt, but they also needed to be sewn for them to lay flat. Whether I chose red thread, green thread or a beige thread . . . nothing spoke to me.
I dug around in the thread stashes and found the Sulky invisible thread, much like a lightweight fishing line. When I tried it on scraps, the bottom bobbin thread always poked through to the top with little dots of either red or green. It took me quite some time to work with the sewing machine’s tension, top and bottom, to see what would happen if I used the invisible on the top and bottom. Winding the Sulky invisible thread to a bobbin was quite the task for a smooth wrap. Getting that thread in the top portion of the threading via the tension discs wasn’t bad. Threading the needle dang near made me blind. I thought I had the thread in my fingers heading for the eye of the needle . . . and nope nothing there. Three times was the charm. Quite the task for the ole gal.
So it has been decided. I will use red thread for the half of the quilt blocks that have been pieced with red fabric to be quilted and then restring and do the remaining with green thread for the green blocks done with green fabric. The third time will be quilting the Santa images with the invisible thread. As I said the good just got a bit gooder, a new word for my spell check to concentrate on.
It is cold and I was thankful that Dennis had the drive cleared down to bare concrete. I did several laps up and down the drive to get some fresh air. I think I did it more to clear my head. I do talk to myself as I contemplate my next moves and the north wind took my words up and away.
Enjoy the weekend, regardless of the temps. There is still good to come from having been given a day. For myself, I need as many days as I can get for what I have planned.