Today it's Monday and that's a good thing. It's a good thing because this is a short work week. And as much as I like and appreciate my job, I also like days away from it too.
This was a weekend of ups and downs. I finished the Quiltmaker quilt so it needed to be washed to get the marking pen out of it. As I have said on here more than once - I ALWAYS PRE-WASH. Yes, it doesn't matter what color it is I always pre-wash my fabrics. It's a habit to set it on the washer as it comes in the house and not move it to the sewing room until it has been washed. Years ago I worked at a sewing factory making garments and all of the fabric that came through there had been sprayed or soaked in formaldehyde to keep bugs out of it. They may be using something different 25 years later but I bet they still put something on it to keep the bugs off. Anyway, I digress. I put my lovely quilt made of pre-washed fabric into a washer with not one but two color catchers, set it on cold and proceeded to make a mess. One of the red fabrics in one of the blocks bled in two places. I believe I literally stomped my feet as I was cussing bad words. Then I cried. Then I threw the wet quilt into a plastic garbage bag and headed to Great Plains Quilt Company in Burlingame where I proceeded to cry some more and ask for help. Kathy Smith is always willing to give suggestions. She and two other ladies gave me a couple of ideas which I tried. By the time the quilt went in the mail this morning to Quiltmaker is still had red where it wasn't supposed to be but it was much lighter than before. I had emailed Carolyn Beam at Quiltmaker and told her of the issue. She said not to worry that was what photoshop was for. Well, I feel minutely better now. But I'm still devastated over it. Life goes on.
And since life goes on I decided I needed to sew. Sunday morning I got up and started cutting out some turkeys from the pattern that was given on Bee In My Bonnet .
Here is the table topper I made from Lori Holt's pattern.
This makes me smile. I made mine in fall colors and it turned out just the way I wanted it to. Instead of drawing the legs on free hand I set one of the points of my ruler on the turkey and drew the legs down each of the sides. Otherwise, these turkey legs would never have come out any where near the same. I very happy with it. This will give me something new to put on my table at Thanksgiving dinner. I will say that putting those red pieces in there for the wattles was not really something I wanted to do. However, I know that the red that bled isn't in there because it is in the trash. Yes, I went through all of my stash and cleaned out the red that was the culprit.
Unfortunately the selvedge edge had been removed from what is left so I don't know who the manufacturer of the fabric is. I think it was bought in Baldwin City a couple of years ago. I do know that red is one of my favorite quilt colors and that this particular red is in several of my quilts. I'll be looking for a different way to wash any of those quilts in the future. The letter "G" from my Alphabet quilt a-long is made from this so it will need to be remade. I also have at least two tops that are done but not quilted that have this fabric. I will probably be taking out the blocks and remaking them so that I don't have to worry about it in those tops. What a mess this one little yard of fabric has caused.
Drats anyway,
Julie
This was a weekend of ups and downs. I finished the Quiltmaker quilt so it needed to be washed to get the marking pen out of it. As I have said on here more than once - I ALWAYS PRE-WASH. Yes, it doesn't matter what color it is I always pre-wash my fabrics. It's a habit to set it on the washer as it comes in the house and not move it to the sewing room until it has been washed. Years ago I worked at a sewing factory making garments and all of the fabric that came through there had been sprayed or soaked in formaldehyde to keep bugs out of it. They may be using something different 25 years later but I bet they still put something on it to keep the bugs off. Anyway, I digress. I put my lovely quilt made of pre-washed fabric into a washer with not one but two color catchers, set it on cold and proceeded to make a mess. One of the red fabrics in one of the blocks bled in two places. I believe I literally stomped my feet as I was cussing bad words. Then I cried. Then I threw the wet quilt into a plastic garbage bag and headed to Great Plains Quilt Company in Burlingame where I proceeded to cry some more and ask for help. Kathy Smith is always willing to give suggestions. She and two other ladies gave me a couple of ideas which I tried. By the time the quilt went in the mail this morning to Quiltmaker is still had red where it wasn't supposed to be but it was much lighter than before. I had emailed Carolyn Beam at Quiltmaker and told her of the issue. She said not to worry that was what photoshop was for. Well, I feel minutely better now. But I'm still devastated over it. Life goes on.
And since life goes on I decided I needed to sew. Sunday morning I got up and started cutting out some turkeys from the pattern that was given on Bee In My Bonnet .
Here is the table topper I made from Lori Holt's pattern.
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Unfortunately the selvedge edge had been removed from what is left so I don't know who the manufacturer of the fabric is. I think it was bought in Baldwin City a couple of years ago. I do know that red is one of my favorite quilt colors and that this particular red is in several of my quilts. I'll be looking for a different way to wash any of those quilts in the future. The letter "G" from my Alphabet quilt a-long is made from this so it will need to be remade. I also have at least two tops that are done but not quilted that have this fabric. I will probably be taking out the blocks and remaking them so that I don't have to worry about it in those tops. What a mess this one little yard of fabric has caused.
Drats anyway,
Julie
1 comment:
So sorry about the bleeding red!! The turkeys are great!!
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