Sitting on a Fence
Spending the greater part of today sitting on a fence. I am not sure what side of the fence I will tumble from in regard to giving pause moving forward with the t-shirt quilt top.
There is no timeline. I am one that would rather take it slow and do it right the first time rather than having to do anything over.
YouTube is a wealth of choices and ideas. As I look over the thirty blocks to work with, I see too much gray. Granted, the blocks that I embroidered, each was done in a bright color. They were embroidered on grunge gray fabric. It was not a solid gray, but grayish nonetheless. Very few of the t-shirts had bright colors on them.
Once I give a project of mine away, there is no longer a claim. I do enjoy the feeling of self-satisfaction during the process.
I have a set of tools coming from Amazon that allows me to make bias tape from strips of fabric. For a whopping $7.99 I will have a selection of four different sizes working with fabric strips. As the strip is fed into this gismo it folds the fabric onto itself. As the fabric is pulled through a hot steam iron presses and there is the very same product as a package of Wright’s bias tape. The fabric need not be cut on the bias. I played around with some orange fabric today. AJ indicated gray and orange as favorites. The photo is a “what if.” The end product can vary depending on how wide the fabric is cut and which little tool is used. I am thinking that I would make my strips narrow enough that I could put a double needle into the sewing machine, sewing with two spools of orange and sew both sides of the strip at the same time. I checked my needles and I have two sizes. I think the wider of stitching would be 1/4″ apart. I need to play around with that. The border around all thirty blocks would add some zest.
Dennis looked at my sample and commented that orange doesn’t go with red. Now we have a color guru! The key is consistency that draws the eye from one block to the next.
My Amazon order will be here Friday or Saturday. I have a few days to kick back and of course some tidy time on the first floor can always be a good thing.
There is a pork steak in the little blue speckled roaster allowing the house to smell like there may be a meal in the works. Dennis is going to make instant mashed potatoes and we still have some cucumbers left.
By the time the weekend rolls around, my hinny should be able to get off of the fence.
Winter seems to be on the horizon . . . one more time. Please, everyone, play it safe.