I've lost it

What you ask?

the pattern that I was using for my quilt blocks.
I'm afraid that I may have thrown it away in my sweep of the kitchen last Saturday.
See what happens when people come to my house!?!
I clean and things get lost.

Quest Item Obtained

I have the last piece of my needed items. I think I can begin now.

It's a Go

I have finally started my quilt. I found a pattern that doesn't look to terribly hard so I'm going to try it and see where I get.
To get a 9 1/2" Unfinished square each block requires 5 - 4"x4" of each color. and then you sew them all together to come up with a beautiful block (or a kitchen full of discarded fabric and the air full of colorful words). I had thought that I could start today but I realized that I have no thread. I bought materials, a sewing machine, a roller, a cutting board, and a ruler, but no thread. Sigh. I guess it's back to the store tomorrow. I started cutting 4"x4" squares. Do you know how hard that is to do after a nebulizer treatment?? I was shaking so badly that I know there are one or two crooked squares, but not crooked enough to cause a problem. Good thing there is a 1/4" seam to cover the issues. I think all in all I cut 4o 4" squares of 3 different fabrics. That's a pretty good start.

I have quite a variety of fabrics and I think they all go together pretty well. I had thought that I might want some black or red, but maybe I'll choose one of them for a backing to the finished quilt. I'm very excited to do this, it's been a long time since I made anything.

My sisters once tried to convince me to do cross stitching "it's so relaxing" they'd say, but more often then not I'd lose all patience with what I was doing and it would get flung across the room or onto the floor and never be finished. I also tried Tatting, Embroidery, Crocheting and I think I even Knitted once. This is defiantly going to be a trial, but I have spent soooo much money on fabric this had better work or I'm going to be very disgusted.

All scraps have been taken over by the kitties. I think these are the most expensive cat toys.

When I said I was crafty, I didn't mean THAT kind of crafty

So before the pet store incident last night, I went to the fabric store. I bought 5 yards of various Halloween material and 1 "fat quarter" bundle of fall colored material (oranges, blues, browns) I didn't find any nice reds or oranges though so I may have to head to Wal-Mart or Ben Franklin's too see what they have to offer me.

Also on this here shopping trip to the fabric store I purchased myself a rolling blade to cut my fabric and a board and ruler to use with it. I don't know what their technical names are. And then to top it all off I bought myself my very first sewing machine! YAY! It's name is "The Mighty Mender" sure it only does like two kinds of stitches straight and zig-zag, but that's about all I need for this project.

I was reading it's instruction manual last night and got a little worried about how well the machine will work because the spelling of the instruction manual was atrocious. I had to wonder if they put as much quality testing into the machine as they put proof reading their manual. yikes! but all in all the machine only cost me $24 so I don't feel like I'll be out too much if it kills over on me.

I’m feeling crafty

I’ve decided that I want to make a quilt. Not just any kind of quilt though, I want to make a patchwork Halloween Quilt. And of course it’ll have to be queen size to fit on my bed.
Is this being too ambitious for me?
I haven’t made patchwork anything since my 8th grade sewing class and even that was just a 18”x18” pillow.
I don’t know if I can do it, and I bet by the time I get around to the fabric store one of two things will happen:
1) I’ll have lost the crafty desire
2) It wont be Halloween time anymore so I won’t be able to find material
The earlier of the two is usually what happens.
Besides I wouldn’t know what I was doing anyway and I don’t have a sewing machine. Do you know how much those cost?? Ouch.
Maybe if I was really good Santa would see fit to bring me one for Christmas (hint hint mom)