A Blip in Time
Saturday was a weird day. I knocked a bunch of stuff off my to-do list, but the day felt like it lasted forever. I remember looking at the clock at one point, thinking it must be past dinner time. It was 3 pm. đ§
My ruler class samples are done. I may need to come up with some kind of deposit policy for the display items I give to stores to promote classes, because I have had a few instances of stores losing samples. I donât think itâs anything nefarious; I think itâs a matter of being disorganized. However, I donât want to have to make new promotional items for every class. The store here in town does an excellent job of collecting my samples and getting them back to me.
I sewed a line of stitches around the outside of all the Place For Everything pieces, which âsealsâ and flattens the edges to make them easier to sew. I am at an impasse, though, because I am overwhelmed by the pocket options for the inside pages. Vinyl or mesh? One large pocket or several smaller pockets? Or half large pockets and a few smaller pockets? I donât know what I will want or need, so I donât know what to make. I am leaning toward larger vinyl pockets. I cut two pieces of vinyl. Baby steps.
Angela Walters has a new video series on quilting swirls, so after I finished with the class samples and PFE pieces, I felt compelled to mess around with free-motion swirl quilting on the Q20.
So relaxing. I did a bit more of this yesterday afternoon. Free motion quilting is a bit like learning to play the piano. Theory is all well and good, but you canât learn it without doing it, because so much of it depends on forming the muscle memory.
Amanda Murphy has come out with some new quilting rulers. I ordered the Every Angle Plus, which has âhooksâ on each end to make ditch quilting easier.
I really wish Bernina would come out with some kind of stitch-in-the-ditch foot for the Q-series machines.
I also ordered the Every Semicircle set:
I have a semicircle set from HandiQuilter, but those rulers are hard to keep lined up on the quilting. Thatâs why I really like Amanda Murphyâs rulers. The hooks help keep the quilting foot where it belongs at all times.
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I have a week of empty spaces on my calendar. (I am whispering so the universe doesnât hear me.) That seems like such a luxury to me. I intend to take advantage of it.