Wow! It's Wednesday already

Apparently, I didn't get enough done to 'talk' about on Monday.  I got a few blocks done.

 This is what it looked like tonight    Some of the blocks were done after this first pic was taken... I only worked on three or four today.  Nineteen done and eleven to go.

 This one is thread painted and took me close to two hours to complete... It didn't seem like it at the time... well, I did do some practice pieces first, so that may account for maybe half of the time.

 I did the truck block the other day... just took black crayon and colored in the shadows under the truck today.

Now, I'll show you the lesson I learned today....if you look really close at this photo, you should be able to see the faint outline of some letters.  You may have to click on the photo to enlarge it.  

Anyway, it's white polka dots on a light gray background.  I used a red 'frixion' type pen.  I had tried outline stitching a couple of the letters on my domestic, but didn't like how they looked so I ripped those stitches out... which left the fabric square a little wrinkled.  So I spritzed it with Mary Ellen's starch substitute ( can't think of the name right off - I'm tired) and then started pressing with the iron... I THOUGHT the letters disappeared because the red was gone, but when I laid the fabric square on the extended bed of my sewing machine, I could see the faint lettering.  I pressed it again a couple more times and I think the lettering faded a bit more, but it's still there.  Now I'm not sure if I'm going to go ahead and use this piece of fabric anyway and just let the quilt owner find it or just put it away for another day/project.

Tomorrow, our son in law who lives in Texas will be here in our area and we're going to meet him for lunch.  I wish he could get here earlier in the day, but his plane isn't scheduled to land in Detroit until just before 11 am and then he has to obtain a rental car and drive here... so it will be close to one o'clock by the time we meet up with him at a restaurant here in town.  My guild's Christmas party is at 6 - I have a feeling I'm not going to be very hungry -- and we're having soup & salads.  I love (most) soup!  I'll just have to find something light for lunch.

Well, guess that's it for tonight...

take care...

ttyl