It was one of those weeks you just want to drown in a glass of wine. So I did. Let's move on.
Decluttering: following Joy's lead in this endeavor, from The Joyful Quilter.
I'm starting with this because it is the thread that unraveled everything else. Here we go.
Yellow is the colour of March. So,
Got the background and the yellow. Now I needed black fabric. Got that. Good! Went to the fabric store to get some Steam-a-Seam and a bit more (not needed) fabric. (See previous post) ANYwho! Now I need some glitters.
Where are my glitters?
Maybe in this drawer. Found some scraps of "fabric" that I kept in case the Artisanat group are asked to make more sensory blankets for people with Alzheimer. Out it went. The fake fur and the bag of lace will go to my friend Pink if she cares to have that. If not, thrift store will be the winner.
Back to glitters.
Glitters?
In this container?
I removed the shoe laces and the rest, which were to make things for Christmas Craft Shows, will be donated.
Still looking for glitters, remember?
Oh yes! Glitters.
Glitters?
In this container?
I don't remember why or when I got these threads on the left so, they are now donated. On the right there's a 1 shoe lace. What? Trash, please.
Back when I started to quilt, I used templates. I had a little walk down memory lane with these old templates. I lingered around each piece of memory, then out they went.
Good grief, I know I have glitters somewhere.
Glitters?
Please!!
At the back of a drawer, found some rubbish and a needle case with brand new needles. I'm keeping that! The rest was donated or trashed. So I don't count how many items get out of the house, I'm just generally decluttering and I love it.
Still no glitter.
I'm fed up of this! Jumped in the car, drove to the dollar store and got some more glitters. Do you want to bet that I will store these new glitters at the same place the others are? Surprise me, please! I need the glitters to finish my Table Scrap Challenge project.
I usually don't mention what I keep and what I don't when I receive gifted bags of scrap. I don't see it as decluttering since it wasn't mine to begin with but the big bags of poly-some-kind-of-batting are going. Not working with that EVER again. I wanted to try it since it was right there but lesson learned.
It is very fluffy to the point that my machine couldn't sew straight.
This colourful musical note fabric is my backing and you can see how terrible the stitching is.
I removed all the stitches and did the quilting my hand. Bad idea. I should have remove the poly-crap-batting too while all the stitches were out but I didn't. So, I hand stitched around the pattern glued to the background with the Steam-A-Seam bond. Because the batting is SO fluffy, my stitching close to the edge made the pattern pop-up, like it unglued. I ironed this thing down I don't know how many times. Maybe I got the wrong Steam-A-Seam. I don't know. It was just a pain.
The same when I sewed the binding on. The corners were all a mess because the sewing machine kept getting stuck on the thickness of it all. I had to redo them by hand. ANYwho! Let's move on.
I finally got to the glitter part. WhooWhoo! I was so looking forward to this.
It looks so good in person because the glitters are like little diamonds. LOVE it! Very disappointing photos.
Then I wrote the company's name and the SONG TITLE, which is the theme of this month's challenge.
TA-DAH!
Elvis, my love. I wrote Love Me Tender but any true Elvis' fan would know that he is singing Suspicious Mind when he take this pose. The glitters are the flash from the fan's camera taking pictures. I didn't write his name. Do I have to? I know who he is.
I would have like to quilt it more, like sew some black lines following the curve of the record and add some line-stars around some of the "flashes" but the batting stopped me. Like I said: Never again.
I will sew with yellow again this weekend and then take the end of the month pictures. We'll see next week how much yellow was used during March.
You stay good, my friends. We had fresh snow last night (as you can see in the picture above taken on my deck) but I don't care as I know it will melt pretty quickly and my car still has its winter boots on, so I'm good.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Have a great week. ;^)
I will visit these talented ladies over the weekend. Hope to catch you there.
