Not Much to See Here.....

 

So, I was doing some errands and stopped at my local HL......Look at these pretty trees! OOOOOooo, it's hard to resist, but I managed to resist.

I ordered some cute flannel for Little Dylan. He needs a few receiving blankets. 

And I serged the edges on 4 of them and hemmed one. Serging is so much easier!

This is such nice flannel-heavy and thick, no raveling at all!

I used Guterman top stitching thread in the loopers and it looks really good. Nice coverage.

But it does take more than one spool because there's only 33 yards on a spool!

I also completed a repair on my top down bottom up blind. Remember I told you about them just a couple months ago? Yeah well Iris.

She thought she saw something on the back side-maybe a fly- and climbed up to get it. She tore the heck out of the blind material and it split completely. 

SO I turned my sewing machine sideways,,,,,,,

so I could get the metal rail inside my machine and then zig zagged it back together.

It doesn't look very good.....

But when they're re installed, they look perfect!

Nobody needs to know....until you put the top down!LOL!

It'll do for now, maybe I'll shop for some new sturdier ones!

Iris did try to help with the repairs.....

I don't think they make iris proof blinds. 

Oh and today is this fella's one month day!

Not So Disappearing 9 patch

Awhile back the disappearing 9 patch was all the rage, but I didn't get on the bandwagon at that time, but I've got one going on now! I popped the lid on my box of blues and greens and thinking of boyish/manly prints, I gathered up quite a few. Here's what the beginning looks like. Then you cut it apart and it goes together like this.

I made the center square the only solid so it would repeat throughout the quilt. But one thing I really didn't notice until I laid out all of the completed blocks is that when the blocks are placed all going the same way your 9 patch doesn't really disappear. I have these laid out on the bed for a baby size quilt, and I like the placement but it kind of loses the meaning of disappearing .....

It kind of becomes a 4 patch looking block. Well I'll get this sewed together anyways and I think I'll use up that piece of Riley Blake flannel for the back......Hope I have enough!

fabric picture from ebay.com