It’s been a funny kind of day today without much progress on anything. I spent the morning waiting in for an engineer to sort out my internet problems and normally waiting in would be a good thing but it was difficult to photograph, make video, measure and cut out as all those things take place in the room I knew he would need to disrupt. Then when he arrived he was here for over an hour so it
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Have you noticed something? I have now posted four days in a row! Normally I am a woman of few words, more the withering look kind of girl so this is a bit of a shock for me never mind you. It must mean that I’m having fun and the reason is probably this……..white. The first piece is finished, no zippered pouch for this creation. Instead I went down the ”back it with silk and add a lovely edge” route and I am so pleased I did. I decided to list it too because probably at the end of the day nobody will want it anyway. I often think I should keep things for myself but then I have them in the house because there aren’t many takers so it’s kind of a win, win situation.
The second white piece that I showed you pinned together yesterday now has some embroidery on it. I’m not sure how far I will get with that one today because I have a child returned from the good old U.S.A. this morning with enough dirty clothes to sink a ship so you can guess what I will be doing later. Talking of yesterday though….my pins went down well didn’t they? So I have decided to spread the love a bit. I am going to give you some pins, if you want some. I will give 3 people one packet of pins. My generosity knows no end!! Now don’t get over excited because you literally will get ONE PACKET OF WHITE PINS. Now I have had so many comments this week, more than my fair share me thinks but I don’t know any other way of doing this, so leave a comment and I will randomly pick 3 people to get a measly, scrawny, sad, penny pinching pack of white pins sometime at the weekend. I know, you’re underwhelmed, what can I say, I do try.
Pink Chalk Studio has a great tip for hand-sewing quilt binding: use hair clips instead of pins to hold the binding in place. I think they could also be useful at other times you want to avoid pricking yourself with pins, like when you’re hemming clothing.
