Wednesday, January 31, 2018

It didn’t happen without more reverse stitching but I finished the top border before I quit for supper last night. Although this is meant to be a Tuesday project I wanted to get the bottom border together before I completely forgot what I was doing. I had better luck this morning but I still had to do some seams over. Those mistakes had nothing to do with the set-in triangles and more to do with me not paying attention to where I was attaching the rows.

Before I got started for the day though I took one of my machines in to be “looked at”. The SUV is very noisy when I’m stitching and even though I clean and oil it there doesn’t seem to be much difference. I thought perhaps I had something caught in it somewhere. I expected to leave it for a few days but Cam was able to look at it right away. He says it is a low-end machine and they run noisy. He squirted some oil in places I know aren’t mentioned in my manual and says it is fine and he didn’t even charge me.

With the two borders attached I moved on to some cards. I waivered about whether or not to do Valentine cards but since I’m not doing as many birthday cards it felt wrong to ignore Valentine’s for my family. I have one ready to bind and another ready for quilting. I would like to get them all ready for hand stitching before I go to Texada. Since I’m not taking my sewing machine across it would give me something to work on if I join the Texada quilters on Monday night.

I’ll go back to stitching for a little while; I hope to finish another Messy Bun Hat tonight.