Another two step/one

First problem was doing something with this rude border that is waving at me..  Luckily, it dawned on me that I have a steamer that I've never used BUT I know where it is!!  I bought it a few years ago with the intention of using it to clean the kitchen and other places, but then hubby started having his health problems and then mine flared up again... you know how it goes.  

So, after kind of reading the directions, I set to using it... nothing at first - guess I didn't put enough water in it.  Pretty soon it was steaming up and I set to work trying to get this seam to submit to my will by first pinning and then running the steamer over it several times.

                                                                      IT WORKED!! 

 Still a LITTLE puffy, but nothing that I can't work with.  Next came trying to decide how I'm going to quilt the borders.  On one edge, I placed a scrap of solid black and another one of solid white and replaced my black top thread with light gray/silver and stitched... nope, the black bobbin thread made little black dots - that's not going to work.  Ok, try the light gray/ silver bobbin..  There was a little issue with it when I started stitching on the quilt... not sure what happened other than I did not start with a full bobbin like I was told to do when I first got Mo'e.  Once I cleared up the mess, and tried again, everything was fine and I was able to continue using up what was left on the bobbin.  I only have one full light gray so I wanted to use the partial up first.  I've ordered more, but it won't be here until Thursday at the earliest; more likely Friday.  I'm almost out of black, too so I'm kind of limited to how much I can work on this quilt until the new bobbins come.

Ok, so I thought I'd do a stem with flowers that kind of match the ones on the girl bovines' heads and toss some leaves in here and there... those I can do.  Then I got this silly idea that I want to make them 'pop' using dense quilting.  It went better than I thought it would - and quicker, thank goodness.

I was able to get about half of the border done before I ran out of bobbin thread and had to switch over to my last one.  I finished the border and then put half feathers in the corner stones - not perfect but I was having trouble getting Mo'e to go the way I wanted to go... he can be so stubborn at times.

And on that note, I've called it a night after using my iron to remove the red frixion pen marks....

Time to fix dinner... OH  before I forget... the weather was somewhat nice this afternoon... nice enough that Buddy laid out on the porch for about half an hour.

This didn't mean that "Daddy" didn't still have to take him for a walk so he could go potty... or eat grass because his stomach is upset.  

Ok, off to the kitchen....

take care

TTYL