Great Deal gone bad :(

Last night at guild, one of the members had a baggie full of needle cases that she was trying to sell for a friend.  Another member and I dove right into them as soon as I spotted the brand name that we use for our long arms; we sifted through, picked out what we wanted, made arrangements for payment and took our 1/2 priced deals home with us.
Looking the needles up at SuperiorThreads.com, we kind of came to the conclusion that these are not the right needles for our machines, sigh.  The other member called our local dealer to find out for sure... nope, they're not for our machines and if we tried to use them in our machines, we could meet deadly and costly consequences ( as in messing up the timing).  So the needles will go back to the member who brought them in, sigh again.

In the meantime, I found more Harley Davidson t-shirts in the tub yesterday so I've been cutting them apart and applying fusible interfacing to the backs of the shirt fronts and some of the shirt backs.  I already had 10 done, so need 10 more to make a complete top.  At first I thought I wouldn't have enough and would have to fill a block or two with a blank shirt back, but then I went back in to check the tub one more time and found even more.  This time, I thoroughly checked to make sure I had them all.  Now I have enough for one complete top -   16" blocks - 4 across by 5 down - and I'm not sure how many extras; will count after I get the first one done.

After the guild meeting last night, I decided that I'd look for a design that I'd like for the blank blocks in my Daisy Dance ( by Fons & Porter) quilt top.  I found one that I like and that I can do; traced it out onto Golden Thread paper then laid it out on one of the blocks... just a smidgen too big - oh well, back to the drawing board - or my  copy of 502 New Quilting Motifs (Quiltmaker magazine) where I found the first design/motif - and found another one that will fit (and I like) so that's probably what I will go with.... but have to finish at least the one H.D. quilt first.

I delivered one charity quilt back to it's piecer last night so that she can put the binding on... and opened my big mouth and volunteered to quilt another one.  That makes three for the charity quilt pile, not counting the HD quilt(s).  They're just scrap quilts so won't take me long to quilt them once I get them onto the frame.  I was going to put Daisy Dance on next, but it's going to take me a few days to do, so I'll probably do the charity quilts first.

Found a pattern for some cute baby girl Mary Jane shoes at http://www.thestitchingscientist.com .  One of my cousins has a granddaughter due to be born in  mid. Oct; I think I'll try and make a pair for her.  Then grandma can have the pattern incase she wants to make some, too

Ok, back to  cutting out and fusing t-shirts.