Please Do Not Adjust Your Set

In need of an 80th birthday present. Don't have time to rustle something up.

This has been "hanging" about for ages

so I took it down and am machine quilting it. Just straight lines, using 1" masking tape as a guide.

All I can say is Hmmmmm. Interesting!

More soon.

Getting Back into a Rhythm

Temperatures still in the upper 20's and hardly a drop of rain has fallen on Le B for what seems like weeks. Torrential rain over most of the Dordogne last Monday, but hardly a drop here. Rain and thunderstorms are forecast for next Tuesday so we shall see if the weather fairy condescends to chuck some this way! Despite the heat, melting when I got anywhere near the iron and having to unplug the fan when I use the sewing machine, look what I produced yesterday afternoon. The bottom border could be a bit straighter and the top one has got a definite wobble in it, but hey isn't that being liberated (or just a tad too liberated :-) ). Going to start on the last border this afternoon and then it can join the other tops waiting to be quilted. I tried the new walking foot on The Blues the other day. I don't know whether it is me, or the foot, or the fact that I'm not 100% confident about machine quilting, but the darn thing jumps every so often. Only about 1/4 of an inch, but it's annoying. I don't think there is enough pressure on the foot. Is that normal with a walking foot? Is it supposed to "sit" on top of the fabric? Big Sigh! Practice makes perfect I suppose. I've never really liked The Blues since I made it so it doesn't really bother me that much. I've reset my blog counter to zero so please forgive me if I haven't left a comment on your blog recently.