Sunday Inspiration

 

What A Mess !

 I spent the better part of the day working on 2 more rows,calling myself checking the back from time to time ,& smoothing it out but now it wants to buckle, I've never had such a problem keeping the batting & backing smooth so I blame it on the batting,its a brand I've never used before,it has a beige tint & a slight thicker texture, its all Michaels has 

At this point I'm  not sure if I want to rip out these 2 rows or rip all 4 out & find a better batting,would glueing it down help? I've never used the fabric glue on my quilts but Im willing to give it a try before ditching the whole thing 

Playing With Red & White

 I've been a little under the weather,not feeling like doing much of anything but sleep but I managed to stitch 2 more rows on the 16 patch quilt & play around with the idea of a red & white checkered board quilt 

I cut the fabrics 3" width  of fabric ,it may of been because Im not feeling  good ,that long length bout beat me down😄 so I cut it into 19"strips & sewed 6 rows together 

then I cut it onto 3" strips

alternating & lining them up

then sewing them together in sets of 2

after sewing all the stripes together & giving it a final trim it came out at 15",later I'll figure out how many It'll take for a good lap size

Slowly Quilting Along

 I've pulled out the 16 patch quilt  & working on stitching a few more rows ,just taking it slow & easy today,our crazy weather caused me to click the heat on even knowing better 🤣 for it wasn't long it got to hot so between that & trying to do too much painting at one time ot bout made me sick , I'm not sick but I feel like I've been ran over by a truck 😄 so just working on this a little at a time &  deciding which pattern to go with for my solid red & solid white fabric 

Watercolor Homework Day 1

I was so glad to get all this done only to have done it wrong,we all did🤣when you have over 10 pages to read you're bound to miss something,we all painted darkest to lightest going down,somehow we all missed the part that said start at the top rows on all 9 cards then go med to lightest med, lightest to highest light by dragging the brush across the block to an opue stage,my lines are too thin somehow the thicker line effects the paint when it goes over the line getting a faded look  so we all gotta do our homework over🤣

each block should be faded at the end, we all laughed & I asked if we flunk can we repeat the course half off,she laughed & said no with yal itd have to be trippel🤣

Watercolor techniques are so different than acrylic & this is certainly going to be an exciting journey 

Making Memories

 Another fun day with my great grand niece & nephew making memories!

We all like pretty things, everything in its place a certain look down to perfection but there are also times all that may be important  but not mandatory, if you move it they'll go back & move it back😄  what happens when something breaks? What memories do you leave ? here's how ours went...freeze! nobody move! you go that way & get the broom,you go that way & watch for Grace 🐕 I'll go that way & get the vacuum, broom gets dropped ,vac comes unplugged & Grace🐕 is sniffing the broken glass & we are rolling 🤣🤣🤣 we don't laugh because something was broken ,most times its the trees fault for letting go🤣we laugh because accidents happen & fear is not allowed in our memories !

Sunday Inspiration