Tuesday noon

Not a lot to report (so far) today.. I started quilting on the baby bow ties later yesterday, but couldn't get the tension right - I stitched two rows ( one straight and one meandering) then reached underneath the quilt to  feel the stitches... and I felt them.  If I can't feel them, it means the tension is correct.  I peeked underneath and saw eyelashes and really loose stitches.  Good news/bad news... good is that they were pretty easy to put out since the tension was so loose... bad news was that I had to pull them all out and then had trouble getting the tension right.  I ended up taking a break for a few hours before trying again.  On the second attempt to set the tension, all it took was a couple of turns and everything was back to normal - well, my normal anyway - lol.

So I got back to the quilting this morning and finished just before noon.  There wasn't enough fabric left to do the binding so I dug into my stash of binding leftovers.  I don't have a lot of blues - or enough of any one other color to do this quilt - did find a turquoise with dragonflies on it, but will use that only if I can't come up with anything else.  I'll check my yardage stash to see if I can find something there - if not, it's off to Walmart because I'm not spending big bucks.

Next up on Mo'e is another piece I found in one of my stash bins - fabric I 'inherited' from my cousin, Phyllis after she passed away.  It's a farm scene with tractor, barn, cows, corn in the field... I'm not cutting up & piecing it - going to keep it as a whole cloth.  I even lucked out and found enough green yardage ( in one piece) for the backing - YES!  Now I just have to make sure I have green thread for the bobbins and I think I do :).  There's a smaller piece of the same print that I can cut into binding strips, too - YAY!

Haven't worked on All stars in DAYS and I'm behind on my self-imposed schedule for making the pieced blocks for Scalloped Potato and I haven't even started my Christmas Row by Row BOM yet... partly because I misplaced the white fabric I need for the snowmen - arghhh.  See what happens when I take care of things? - I lose them.

Ok, off to do something, just not sure what.

TTYL