Lack of Quilting, Lack of Editing
Jan. 27th, 2015 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76My mother-in-law is a baby whisperer and has managed to get the fractious Squiddle calmed down and asleep over Skype. All hail!
According to the guy at the sewing machine shop yesterday, the needle hitting the foot is what broke the foot. He would not accept me saying that the needle didn't start hitting the foot until after the foot broke. Wonderful Husband thinks he's trying to get me to buy a machine specifically for quilting. Which I would love to do, but since the $4K Babylock Tiara is no longer there, there's nothing in that shop I'm interested in.
So I wait, and hope I win that auction on eBay for the old all-metal foot that will work on vintage Singer machines. No more free-motion quilting for me until I have one of those.
Instead I turned my attention to my crafting shelves yesterday while it rained (.2"), and cleared out my old WIPs bin. I pulled out the pins, kept the pattern pieces, and threw all but three of the projects into the trash. At this point, I was never going to finish them, and I need the space and sanity more than the silent reproaches of the ghosts of Kristins past. I also pulled out probably another 16-inch cube of fabric to pass on to others, a few more specifically quilty things to donate to the Guild, and managed to snaffle three bins of quilt stuff down into two. Thus a little more space has been made.
I did not do any editing on Queen's Choice yesterday, and probably won't today either, as I need to edit my classmates' story submissions instead while the Squiddle is sleeping. And bring the bins in from the curb. And figure out what I'm making for dinner....
According to the guy at the sewing machine shop yesterday, the needle hitting the foot is what broke the foot. He would not accept me saying that the needle didn't start hitting the foot until after the foot broke. Wonderful Husband thinks he's trying to get me to buy a machine specifically for quilting. Which I would love to do, but since the $4K Babylock Tiara is no longer there, there's nothing in that shop I'm interested in.
So I wait, and hope I win that auction on eBay for the old all-metal foot that will work on vintage Singer machines. No more free-motion quilting for me until I have one of those.
Instead I turned my attention to my crafting shelves yesterday while it rained (.2"), and cleared out my old WIPs bin. I pulled out the pins, kept the pattern pieces, and threw all but three of the projects into the trash. At this point, I was never going to finish them, and I need the space and sanity more than the silent reproaches of the ghosts of Kristins past. I also pulled out probably another 16-inch cube of fabric to pass on to others, a few more specifically quilty things to donate to the Guild, and managed to snaffle three bins of quilt stuff down into two. Thus a little more space has been made.
I did not do any editing on Queen's Choice yesterday, and probably won't today either, as I need to edit my classmates' story submissions instead while the Squiddle is sleeping. And bring the bins in from the curb. And figure out what I'm making for dinner....
