Saturday, August 11, 2012

Helpful Hint

I know it's late. DH is ready for bed and I just don't feel like I can wind down yet, so I am hoping blogging will help.

Today/tonight I remembered a tip/hint/piece of advice that I always try to follow.

Know when to walk away and take a break.

My day: trying to finish up a quilt for my nephew's birthday gift (which pictures will be posted after it is given. this is my rule that I stick to and you can see in past posts I always do) and I was attempting to spray baste the quilt.  Of course I always clear off and wipe down my kitchen table and do it there...but this quilt is a larger lap size and needed more space.  So I swept and cleaned my kitchen floor and laid it all out to baste by myself. (Which I always try to baste my stuff while there is someone else around because I don't know about you all, but sometimes it's like an Olympic sport trying to get those layers smoothed out)

So after I thought everything was fine and smooth, I got it up out of the floor only to find a nice size bubble on the back. Terrific.  So I put it down and made a necklace.  And of course DH wasn't home for me bribe for help.

The plan is to have help to re-baste the back and then quilt it and bind it and give it to him by the weekend.  But we will see what happens.

The necklace I made was pretty cool :)

Tomorrow will be full of house work and getting ready for the week and I hope to make up some hair bows, which is something I haven't done in quite a while.

And since I haven't posted pictures in a while...This isn't the necklace I made tonight, I will post that later..


This is a necklace I made from black and turquoise beads.  You can find this and other homemade items at thurmans.etsy.com!


Thanks for reading tonight!

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