Lemonade

I had a great day sewing with the TTT Gang earlier this week. When I left, I forgot to bring home the sewing machine I had planned on using to finish my project. "Well," I decided, "I DO have other machines at home--so no big deal." The next evening, I got out my Janome 6500 to piece the rest of the blocks I had started the day before. I got it set up and then realized--NO POWER CORD. I looked around for at least an hour but it was a no go. So, I pulled out the Baby Lock, set it up and--no 1/4" foot. The force was definitely not with me. And I didn't want to use my Bernina because I had it set up for something else.

What to do? Well, if you can't sew, then you certainly can fuse! I started looking through some books and came across Home For The Harvest by Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan. I have made several projects from this book over the years and this was one that I made for my son's family (this picture is scanned from the book itself). I didn't want to do this again--especially if I hope to actually finish by Halloween--so I decided to do the witch alone. I decided to increase the size by 140% and ended up having a fun evening figuring out how to do that with my printer and then tracing and fusing. The next morning I went out to PPQ and got a new power cord (they very nicely took one off of a machine for me and ordered another one for themselves) and pieced the background. Last night and this morning I fused the pieces to the quilt and NOW it's on to the blanket stitch.

The bottom line? I am going to end up with a cute Halloween wallhanging that wouldn't have been if I hadn't had the problem in the first place. Definitely lemonade.