I'm Going In!

Its time to clean the bobbin area again & change the needle. I'm still blanket stitching around the Be Attitudes but making progress.

Here are my cleaning tools minus the machine oil of which I only have to use a drop. This may take awhile.....sigh!

Things Texas Revisited

A new blogging friend asked about the patterns to my "Things Texas" quilt. I had to think really hard about where those patterns were. It took me a couple of weeks to dig them out. I decided to re-post about the process and share the patterns with anyone who's interested.
As you can see from the photo, there are lots of what I call blank spaces throughout some of the designs. I am linking to my tutorial about how to do this particular process. It's a bit time consuming but well worth the effort.

• Below are the patterns I used. Just right click on each page then copy and paste them into you own document. You can then enlarge each pattern to your desire.
• I chose fabrics that would show off the silhouettes.
• I used Steam-a-seam or Heat-n-Bond as an adhesive backing on the black silhouette fabric.
• Note: One thing I failed to mention in the last video is that I had removed the adhesive before the final placement and pressing.
• After pressing the silhouettes into place, I stitch the raw edges into place stitching as close to the edges of each pattern as possible.
• The videos were made in August 2009 where I mentions a silhouette give away of that cow. Well obviously that was years ago but I do have a little surprise this August 2013. Scan down to the bottom of this post to see what's up.

 

The tiger is an example of another way to use an image as a silhouette and use more colors to jazz up the image.

It is my give away design for this particular post.

It is unfinished in that I have not stitched it down, never got around to it so it landed in my UFO box......LOL.

If you are interested in this unfinished block measuring

 approximately 12 1/2 inches just leave a comment and mention

 your favorite

animal

 and it's that easy!!

 

 

 

Rollin' Along

What you're looking at are a caster wheelie thingies. I really don't know what it's called but I love it. I put them on my sewing table and file cabinet. Yes girls......I did it myself with my trusty power screwdriver, lots of screws, some extra pieces of wood, a saw and a pencil for marking. After a hour of drilling, marking and sawing I was ready to turn over and roll around. Sure enough, it works like a charm. Now I can rearrange my sewing area again and again and again. LOL