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
2 comments:
good to see back in blogland, loving your dolls. You have been busy and what a good idea with the tv table, unpicking seems to take for ever what patience you had to do that
Love the colours in you ''May'' piece Rose. Thanks so much for visiting, it's always lovely to hear from you and I think of you often x
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