Six Hundred Posts!!

 This blog post is number 600!  Congrats to you if you have been following me and have managed to slog through all 600... poor things!

Originally when I started blogging, I was writing because I wanted to keep track of things, remember things, and because I felt a compulsion to write them down.  I had been doing diaries off and on, I have one I kept of our anniversary trip to Hawaii, and sometimes I'd keep notebooks and fill them with thoughts during trips or conventions.  

Maybe when I'm older and my memories aren't that clear I will pull those books down and read about what I was doing in 1986 and say "wow, I guess I must have had fun"!

So this is #600.  Sorry, there are no prizes, no give-aways, just more of the same worthless rambling.  :-)

Things to do today include baking a lemon pound cake for tomorrow and escaping to the sewing studio because DH is watching golf.  Yeah, excitement to no end.

A couple from whom we lived across the street in our last home will be coming for coffee tomorrow afternoon.  He's suffering from Lymphoma and has had his last chemo treatment.  She's become a good friend of mine and we discuss knitting and sewing while the guys talk sports or the lack of yardwork required when you live in a condo. Thus the baking.

I finally sewed all the blocks together for the Kaffe Fassett mystery quilt from two years ago... the mystery was why we all jumped in to sew it, because there were only two types of blocks and only the fabric choices changed.  People who bought it moaned about the lack of variety, and the layout was not very imaginative.  The only 'redeeming quality' was that the checkerboard block taught the importance of careful cutting and accurate seaming.

The finished size was something like 82x82".  I wanted mine to be bigger, to cover a queen sized bed, so I planned to use the extra pieces for a border.  I don't know why but it never occurred to me to think about lining up the blocks in the border with the blocks in the quilt.  I plead brain clog or Old-Timers!

I put it up on the design was and dang!  Two sides line up just fine, and the other two... not a bit.

This is the design wall during the assembly process.  The border includes strips of the checkerboards that were left over.

Today's sewing room project will be un-sewing two sides of a BIG quilt, realigning the pieces at patching my errors, and stitching them back on.

The phone camera can be your friend in cases like this.  I just finished up a sample for the shop.  I was being so careful because it's not my quilt nor my quilt shop.  I made sure the directional fabric as cut correctly, and tried to get as many gnomes and words face up as I could.

The quilt has one inner border, a round of squares and four outer borders.  

This kit is available where I work in person or on line at quilt-agious.com.  Not that I'm pushing it or that I get anything out of it if you purchase the kit, but it's dang cute!

Can you see my mistake?  Ugh!

Lucky for me the fix was relatively easy.  I just opened the seams around the top row of blocks, turned it over and sewed it back in using some partial seams to I didn't have to take off the four outer borders.

Think before you sew!!  I should have it tattooed on my forearm!

Anyway, all is well again.  Sample delivered, all pants hemmed and delivered, kits cut and patterns bagged for the next church guild meeting, now it's time to get to some of my own sewing.

Happy 600th.  Stitch on...