Bright, bright sunshiney day

It has been a beautiful day today, calm, slight breeze and sun shine, there are hundreds of boats out fishing taking advantage of the weather. Not a lot of sewing has been happening here today I must admit. But I have spent time on the phone with friends, nothing better. Thank you very much Chooky for helping me with the comments problem on the blog, it was very helpful to have someone to talk to and nut out ideas of what to do.

The Picnic Quilt is finished, I didn't do too well with this, the centre came out bigger than it should, so I cut the sashing longer to fit, then was not sure what would happen with the last sashing, I thought I could make the corner stone blocks bigger if necessary, but they came out longer than I needed, so the corner stones had to be cut back...not the best finish but a finish. The quilt, once quilted is going to be the tablecloth for  the table on the back deck when we have a BBQ. I was careful with measuring and the quarter inch sewing, so not sure where I went wrong here.

I thought I had better give the machine a bit of a clean as it was messy when I changed the bobbin, I think I did it just in time!!!

Later in the afternoon I had a thread race, I am sot sure if that is the right word, but you know when you have sewing to do, not that much, and you are not sure if the thread will go the distance, so you sew faster to beat the thread?? 

I had two sides of free range quilting to do on the teal coloured section, it is about 11 inches.

I am pleased to say I finished the quilting with this thread to spare.

Earlier in the afternoon I finally took a pair of gumboots out of my car, they belonged to Eve and had been there since last September when I helped sort out her clothes. I was going to take them to an op shop but then had the idea of gluing them to a brick, filling them with potting mix and putting in a plant. I got some zygote cuttings, watered them in with worm wee and now we will see what happens. I drilled holes in the bottom of the boots so any rain water drains out. I have another old pair up the back of the garden so if this works might do the same with them,

Hubby ambling off up the yard, he decided to mow the grass yesterday afternoon.

Late yesterday I was having fun with free range quilting, going around leaved, the birds and berries, in one place I think I got too many stitches together and broke the needle! Did a good job didn't I!! I was using that invisible mono ploy thread, and not long after this broke a second needle. Time for a break I think.

So I moved on and made Anthology blocks, I thought I had cut fabric for two different blocks, but as I was sewing them together realised I had cut two the same! Oh dear! Not quite sure where my brain was yesterday.

I had better go and introduce myself to the sewing machine, it has not seen me today.

Happy stitching.