{"id":15867,"date":"2012-11-27T05:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=15867"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:56:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T21:56:39","slug":"bfsi-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/bfsi-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#BFSI in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I detailed all the BFSI comments<\/a> you wrote (keep ’em coming!) and the prizes I gave away. I actually did get sewing done, which was great. I don’t feel like I got as much sewing done as I would have liked, but I got enough done. I guess.<\/p>\n

As an aside: Is it ever really possible to get enough<\/em> sewing done? I don’t know what enough sewing is, so I can’t say. I would like to try to figure it out, though.<\/p>\n

Enough of that.<\/p>\n

I know that there were a number of people who had to work, Kati had problems with her laptop, so could only follow along and others had family obligations, so I feel lucky to have gotten done what I did get done.<\/p>\n

I started out the day by getting up a bit on the late side…for me. I got up around 7am and since we had 24 people over to eat the night before, I got the first load of non-china dishes going in the dishwasher while my tea steeped. There were also some things that needed to be soaked, so I put them in hot water as well. I could hear the call of Twitter, though, throughout the chores, so I didn’t stay away for much longer.. My phone has been acting up, so I gave it a good talking to, which encouraged it to work. I was able to use it during the day as well.<\/p>\n

I kind of think that I did some #BFSI warm-ups earlier in the week with the cat beds and the donation blocks<\/a>. Who doesn’t need a good warm up?<\/p>\n

I promised to make two pincushions for the BAMQG raffle basket, so I decided to get busy on those. The meeting is next week, after all, so I didn’t have much time.<\/p>\n

I used a charm pack from Sandy Gervaise called Objects of Desire and the Petit Gateau pattern from Fig Tree quilts. This is the pattern I used before and I liked it.<\/p>\n

In general, I like Sandy Gervaise’s fabric designs. They are fun, generally cheerful or have a bit of humor. She also usually includes dots, which I love. I have found, thoughn that her color choices are usually a bit too beige for me. She often has a really good and fun print on the front of the charm pack, but as I pick through the fabrics (which is one reason charm packs are great!), I find many of the fabrics to be ‘Meh.’ I don’t hate them by any stretch, but they aren’t my favorites.<\/p>\n

\"Pincushions<\/a>
Pincushions in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why choose ‘meh’ fabrics for pincushions, you ask? In small doses they are a relatively cheerful and a nice combination of fabrics for a pincushion. It took me some time to get them together, but once I made the half square triangles, they went pretty quickly. I sewed a couple of charms together to make the gusset piece. I thought about digging around in my fabric closet, but have plenty of charms, so that worked for me.<\/p>\n

I have a lot of charms from the pack left so might make a couple more pincushions as gifts. They are fun and cute.<\/p>\n

I have some hand stitching to finish, buttons to attach, but I am pleased with the way they look. They are cheerful and I like the different scales of fabric.<\/p>\n

I also worked on the A-B-C Challenge. I know I talked about it before<\/a>, but in order to get to the stage of FINISHED top, I worked on the border on Saturday as well. I spent most of the time that I worked on this piece on the grey inner border.<\/p>\n

\"Patchwork<\/a>
Patchwork Wheel #7 & 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also always need leaders and enders. That is mostly how I am getting the Patchwork Wheel blocks done. I doubt I will get a quilt top from them finished by the meeting next Saturday, but I can finish it by January.<\/p>\n

Sandy talked about her BFSI experience on her blog<\/a>. Sarah detailed<\/a> her progress and she had to go to work! Pam did a lot of sewing work, but admitted to finishing<\/a> the Star Wars quilt during the Black Friday Sew-in. Katie made major progress<\/a> on her Orca Bay quilt. She was being good and trying to finish it before Easy Street<\/a> started.<\/p>\n

Did you join in? What did you work on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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