It’s Tuesday and I meant to post this last night as one of my tips and
tricks posts but I didn’t get it done (actually this was written one week ago).
The tip is at the end of this post. Okay now for a little update on my UFO’s, Www.allpeoplequilt.com UFO
Challenge for 2016.
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| March UFO Crazy Quilt |
March’s
number didn’t even get touched. Why? Because I was busy, busy, busy making
things to go in the quilt show that my local guild holds every year. I thought
I would do a little bit on that project but it didn’t happen. April came along
and the number pulled was a good one – number 1 the small aloha quilt.
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| April UFO Small Island Quilt |
I can
handle that. Not. I’m still working on it and here it is well into May.
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| May UFO Birds In Flight Crazy Block |
May’s
number is 7 the Birds In Flight Crazy Block. Now really I should be able to get
both of those done this month.
For my tip
I was working on this small mini quilt to go in the silent auction held during
the previous mentioned quilt show.
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| View From My Window Auction Quilt |
The small flowers were re-embroidered by me
by hand but the fabric was not a quilt quality fabric and I was not happy with
the results once I had pieced the blocks together. They were not the right
size, and they were not consistent in size. So I did something I rarely do, I
took it all apart and started again. Since the flower fabric was a fairly loose
weave I decided to stabilize it by adding a muslin backing. I thought the best
way to do that would be to use a spray on quilt basting glue. I really didn’t
want to do that in the house but I didn’t want to set up a large table outside
either. Then I spied this:
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| TV Tray |
Now I know
some have covered these and made them into a small portable ironing surface
and/or cutting mat. My thought was to cover it with freezer paper (shiny side
out) and use that as my glueing table. Worked perfectly and now I have
something I can use outdoors when I’m using a spray or a glue that needs a lot
of ventilation. I can also use it when I have just a little painting to do.
When the freezer paper gets too bad just replace it with a fresh sheet.
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| Freezer Paper Covered TV Tray |
How simple
is that!
Oh and the
quilt show? My rag dolls “The Slow Stitchers” took second place in their
category Textile/Fabric Items.
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| The Slow Stitchers Rag Dolls |
Happy
creating!
Rose
