Philosophical {Quilting}

Wednesday 29 August 2012

I had a plan, a great plan... All was in place: we were going to my parents in France for the bank holiday weekend, I would take the bits for my triangle cushion with me, my very old, ancient sewing machine would be repaired and I would be able to enter Rachel's Heather Ross Nursery Versery contest on Sunday night. The car was absolutely full os essential things for the weekend and off we went. I had everything with me.. And this is how much was done!



You may think, well she was in France, catching up wit my family, there was a big party happening and therefore had no time to sew. Oh no no no.. how wrong, I did have time to sew, and I did sew - I told everyone to leave me alone to sew. The said 'repaired machine' was just not repaired really, and proved to be a nightmare. I should have known when I saw the state of the needle - and gone back to bed then and there! But I pushed through,ringing my Grandma who I knew would have some spare needles and decided it would be fine.  



It was not, and after a frustrating two days, I decided that I should just give up on the contest, and go and enjoy the sunshine. Sometimes you just have to be philosophical and change priorities. It would have been great to be part of it, but spending time with my family was time better spent than me swearing at the Singer (and I don't want the baby's first words to be my best French swear words either)

Apart from that, the Totally Groovy QAL is now looking like this. We have had tutorials about curve stitching, so will try them out when I am back from my holiday. 



Otherwise I signed up yesterday's to the Low Volume Fabric Swap organised by making Rebecca Lynne. There are still a few places left, so come on guys, get involved! It will be fun! 

I am of course linking up to WIP Wednesday, and you can come and see other - more successful - WIPs here.   

8 comments:

  1. Sorry about the machine - that stinks. Good luck with sewing the curves - I haven't started cutting mine out yet.

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  2. I bet swearing in French sounds nicer than my full on English swearing. ;-)

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  3. The triangles are looking great! Sorry about the machine, what happened to that needle?! Glad you've had a nice time with family though :)

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  4. I love your quilt top. Colors, contrast looks great. Too bad about your machine. I hate that! You just have to "let go". Good luck!

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  5. Bad, bad sewing machine! Can hardly wait to see your Groovy quilt!

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  6. Love the triangles Nat! Blech about sewing machine problems - I've been there too, thankfully not for a while, and it's a huge pain!

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  7. Swearing at your machine is a lot nicer than punching it. I've done that. Doesn't solve anything. lol

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  8. At least you got something done in the time. Gosh my needle used to look like that before I changed it...I still have a hand sewing needle that looks just like that.
    A great choice of fabrics for the groovy quilt!! =D

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