缝纫、藏

所以，三月是吗？感觉就像是在一百万英里的时速飞过，但在同一时间感觉就像永远。这个价格包括哪些内容？掠过我的帖子三月回来了，好像我已经管理的批量本月,包括制作生日礼物，整理重大项目，与三角形玩并且与我的进步马沙拉挑战被子，所以我很高兴，这一个月的努力。

刚刚过去的双休日也不例外，当谈到奎尔蒂忙碌。它始于被子俱乐部上周五，这是我作为宝贵的接头时间与更多的破解上马沙拉白葡萄酒香料块。该项目终于初具雏形，我现在有一个地方它会更好的手感。

We’re also still house-hunting, so after Quilt Club I threw everything plus dog back in the car and scooted up the road to Aberystwyth (Mum had already gone up on the bus), where we planned to stay at my sister’s house for a weekend of re-visiting some possible properties with my uncle and aunt, who’d come down from north Wales to meet us there and offer fresh eyes and second (third, fourth…) opinions. My aunt and uncle are recently back from an anniversary trip to Oregon, and before they went I’d rolled my eyes, batted my eyelashes and begged them to maybe pop into a quilting shop while they were there to buy me some fabric. For the sake of simplicity, I asked them to pick me up some pre-cut strips. Their choice, I told them. And I would be happy to reimburse them.并没有他们做的好？他们给我买了两成一个非常早期的生日礼物，而我给他们回了另外两个。我认为他们做出了一些极好的选择。

蜡染!如果你还不清楚，我爱蜡染!而且它的颜色非常棒——那些紫色的宝石色调和多汁的彩虹效果非常美味。

这是一个更花香的事情，但我还是比较喜欢它 - 它有一个非常舒适，优雅的感觉。将使放在客厅一个可爱的罚球。

我很兴奋!我一直在网上盯着这些套裙看，但都没想去买，所以当我发现这个藏在包底的套裙时，真的很高兴。

他们还给我挑了一个漂亮的小明信片图案(操作指南在背面)，我想这是紫色/宝石色调蜡染的图案，虽然它也可以和其他颜色搭配:那是商店的名片。有一件事确实让我吃惊，那就是带子的价格基本上和我们这里的差不多(大约45美元/ 30英镑)，这就是为什么最后我只要求了几个额外的。然而，在当地，我们非常需要布料店，而我们拥有的那些通常没有很多果冻卷/长条套装，所以有一些额外的惊喜是非常好的。

友好普法夫

上周日晚上，我和我所有的缝制东西走过了从阿伯里斯特威斯到Brimingham上车。我已经预订自己到“交朋友与您百福”天通棉花补丁周一，并能准时到我需要的前一天晚上留下来了。值得庆幸的是，我买了百福携带箱只是安装它，所以我的机器已经从公共交通的滥用一些体面的保护和我有一些车轮拖它周围。而且我发现了一个Premier Inn酒店的权利了道路，从被关押的过程中在那里，因此它所有的工作非常出色。

这门课非常有趣，包括我在内的六名学生都非常热情友好。它由Joy of经营新牧场绗缝和她做介绍的机器（我们大多数人有QE 4.2s）和通过什么我们可以跟他们做我们走，以及如何使用脚和配件正确的一个很好的工作。这是我们做的第一样品，用细雪纺和矮胖的牛仔炫耀百福如何处理这样的事情，并把他们在其大步，特别是与IDT参与系统。(Although in fairness mine did a pretty nice job on the chiffon even without IDT because I’d loaded it with a size 70 needle and some fine piecing thread.) We followed this up with an introduction to using the automatic buttonhole foot (OMG, awesome!) and trying out some machine applique and some of the nifty effects with the decorative stitches and sequences:

最后，我们试图绗缝，首先与IDT一条直线（不用担心有），然后（LE喘气！）与当属与百福QE 4.2（和其他车型，我相信）标准Sensormatic的脚。我有我的这个脚的保留，因为我已经受够了它的一些重要的论据。然而，随着设置乔伊建议（-2枢轴高度，为4.6张力，和中速），它的工作！（虽然我的针和线的改进可能选择帮助了。）

I found myself doing a version of my “cloud” stippling, mostly because I’ve just done loads of it on the Japan Fan Club door curtain and it’s still in my muscle memory, then I tried a bit of a meander and some leaves, plus some pebbling (I’m not great at pebbles yet). And it all worked great, and the back looks tidy too. Maybe I can learn to love (or perhaps even just like) the sensormatic foot after all. It would be fair to say that I’d discovered or looked up a fair bit of what we covered in the class because I’ve been using my machine a fair bit since I got it in December, but there were certainly plenty of things that I hadn’t found out about or needed to use yet and it was great to try things out and have someone to ask when things didn’t work out quite right.

课程结束后，我忍不住咬了几个门的道路棉花补丁的店。在任何情况下，我从我的被子俱乐部的朋友一个购物清单，所以我不能让他们失望！实际的店比我预期的更小的（我觉得他们做的更多的网络），但非常有序，布局良好。我拿起絮的堆栈和被子俱乐部一些梭箱，以及一些婴儿床大小的絮和绗缝针我。在这种情况下，我想我是非常克制！(In fairness I didn’t have that much time to browse, which was probably just as well.) One of the other ladies on the course very kindly offered me a lift to the station, which I was hugely grateful for given that I was laden down with all my sewing stuff AND all my purchases. All in all it was a tiring but fun trip, and I would certainly consider going back for another course there, especially if there’s something FMQ-related.

展望未来

所以这是我的周末（和月）刚刚过去。我不能相信这是四月了。除了工作马沙拉香料，或许终于开始对我妹妹的被子棉被，我至少有一个孩子的被子我想获得这个月完成，加上FrostByte需要一些爱。哦，我们仍然在寻找的地方，我们也想住。四月的看起来相当忙了！

衔接与新鲜缝制日在上莉莉的被子。