Today was our London Friendship Quilters Guild annual summer sewing day. I had all of my projects, sewing machine and supplies packed up last night and ready to take out to the car this morning. I brought along three things to sew today:
First up, I wanted to get this block quilted and made into a pillow. I brought along some variegated thread that I thought would be perfect for the organic quilting that I had planned...I got about 2/3's done and then decided that I hated the variegated thread.
I spent the next hour and a half unsewing all of my quilting...not a productive start to my day.
The fabric on the back of the quilt will not show in the finished pillow as it will be inside the pillow. I ended up using a light grey thread and quilting it organically.
I then put the Canada 150 pillow aside to work on my second project...making and attaching the binding to this comfort quilt for an adult chemo patient at our local hospital--an outreach project of another guild that I belong to--the Elgin Piecemakers.
This went much smoother that project number one, with no seam ripper involvement at all! I will be doing the hand stitching tomorrow for my slow Sunday stitching project.
I did some of the hand stitching tonight while watching Grantchester on TV.
My third project barely got started--I have the pieces cut out for my next block, a reindeer, for my Holly Jolly Christmas quilt that I am making through a sew along at Lorna's blog, Sew Fresh Quilts. I hope to get it sewn together sometime this week before the next block pattern comes out on Saturday.
I will post pictures of the finished pillow and Christmas block later this week.
Don't you just hate having to unpick quilting. But, sometimes you just have to do it. Your projects all look great though. Enjoy your Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI have unpicked too and it is not fun!
ReplyDeleteYours is the third un-stitching story I've read this morning, including my own! We watched Grantchester last night for the first time, and enjoyed it. We will watch tonight's episode, too.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of us have a love-hate relationship with our seam rippers. Glad you like the quilting better the second time around. It would have been a shame to be unhappy with the finished project.
ReplyDeleteUnpicking can be the worst. I'm always glad when I'm finished with it. I love the comfort quilt! It will be well loved by the recipient. Happy sewing! --Andrea
ReplyDeleteUgh... unpicking... bleck :(
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoyed some relaxing binding today!
Love the first block, sorry about the un-sewing, that's always a bummer.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry that you had to unsew. Your pillow is very pretty. The comfort quilt is very pretty. I am sure it will give much comfort .
ReplyDeleteReverse stitching can be such a pain, but a necessary evil at times.
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Your Canada 150 block looks great; sorry that you ended up having to un-stitch. It's going to be a very pretty pillow!
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