Hello Friday

I spent yesterday looking for my quilter's boot - it's around here somewhere, still cant find it. After going through all my stuff (mainly fabric), I concluded I needed to use up some so I could buy more.

My sister called me a couple weeks back asking for a blanket like I made my other sister (they are not into quilting, so I accept the use of blanket from them). In the interest of not making the same quilt more than once - I wanted to try something new. At the fall festival at the AZ State Fair I purchased some Robbing Peter to Pay Paul templates. I bought the set, because I like to spend and save money. I want to make a large quilt for my sister with the 4" square template, but this means I need a ton of squares. I ripped a whole bunch of my older fabrics (some very vintage from my aunt and some from maybe 2 years ago being purchased). I know the squares just have to be no smaller than 4 inches so ripping the fabric makes sure I am on the strait of grain and the sides will be cut away once the circle is sewn anyways. I havent decided if I will add a small square of batting to each square or not. Here in AZ there would be no need, but my family lives in Virginia.

So I am off to a serger 101 class and will post later showing how I rip cut fabrics. I have never used a serger and just purchased a Singer Profinish for $75 out of box, brand new. Great deal! Even the class comes with the purchase of the serger. Cant turn it down, plus I never used a machine that didn't have a bobbin.

PS Stepson is doing okay - he knows I'm heading to class today - I had the class scheduled prior to him being hospitalized.

Kelly