Tree pinning

Here is a really dreadful picture of my tree with all the applique on it. I worked on it for hours getting each piece just so and had a ton of work to do for my quilt class the next day. Then as I moved it from design wall to the ironing board everything fell off. I sat down and cried and cried. Fortunately I had taken a picture prior to moving it so I had a record of where things went. I was able to get it back in order-mostly. Then I gave up and went to bed.

I rose early the next morning, had to have it all done before class, and cut the batting and the backing. Moved everything to the kitchen table and began to pin. Then I stabbed myself with one of the pins and began to bleed on the quilt! Why yes, I did freak out. I tried to get the blood out but found I was still dripping blood on to the quilt!

All was not lost. Sanity prevailed and I backed away from the quilt. Washed my hands and took myself back to the sewing room and did the rest of my homework and packed up my machine and all the etc for my class. That done, I washed my hands, examined them for bleeding(!), and finished pinning the quilt.

Quilting is supposed to be fun, right? Well, at class my teacher complimented me on my layout. And when we were doing the free motion practice on our samples she told me I didn't need to practise and I could go ahead and get to work. That made me feel a lot better! Especially because, at 42, I am the baby of the class and they think I know absolutely nothing!

Of course, they do know one thing I don't: Bring your doggone glasses so you can see what you are doing!!!!!

Down the primrose path. . .

Magpie (dear niece #2) spent the day with us yesterday. We went off for Saturday coffee, stopped at JoAnns so I could get some more autumnal decorations, and went to my parents' church for their fall festival that they call HopeFest. It was a little disappointing this year. Very few vendors and they aren't having the children's games until today (and I am working this afternoon). They did have a tearoom so we had a nice lunch. Afterwards we went off to the resale shops. My DM and Magpie were looking for some jeans and I was looking for a costume for Tig. Red is going to be a fireman for Halloween and every fireman needs a dalmatian, right? I scored at the second shop and found a practically new dalmatian costume for $9.99! SCORE! We headed off home afterwards to enjoy hot fudge sundaes.

Magpie helped me get out all of the autumn decorations. (I asked DH if there was enough folk art out. heh heh) Then she was agitating to do a project. I was seriously tired at this point and just sent her off to the nee-nee room. She started pawing through my scraps and decided to make a new bag. She managed to piece one side and I donated a fat q of this adorable tree fabric (I found it at the FIFTH JoAnn's I visited. Note to self: if it catches your eye every time you visit a store buy the damn fabric!). She also made the lining out of some leftovers from the duvet cover we made her recently.We ran out of time to finish and I need to get some webbing for the straps but she's hooked!!!!!!!!! My dear Magpie will be a obsessed quilter any day now.