New List February's To ~ Do's

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UPDATE HERE  for January's accomplishments :)

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Why not throw your hat in the ring as well?

Pig Tales and Quilts is hosting this motivational event.

See what you can finish or what continues to elude you!

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My Rainbow Scrap Challenge Inspiration

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Have you heard about

So Scrappy ?

 and the 

2013 RAINBOW SCRAP CHALLENGE?

Truly, I must have been living under a rock or on another planet!

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The premise is to, over the course of the year, sew up a scrappy quilt of your choice

and be motivated by the other scrap busters joining in!

I have never committed to anything like this before and I do have alot of scraps that leave me 

scratching my head as to what to do with them.

This is what I'm going to stitch up, I just love this quilt.

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It's called "Northwinds" or "Corn and Beans".

No, your eyes aren't going wonky it just looks like it...way cool ( I think ).

It's mind bending!

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This particular quilt is from

Lisa Boyer @ Dorky Homemade Quilts

This is a real testimony as to what can happen when a bunch of 

not-sew-attractive fabrics are combined resulting in this treasure!

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I can't wait to get started!

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What are your plans for 2013's sewing list?

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Do You Believe?

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Some of you may remember this gal.

I had her on a post that was about bird nesting and backlash due to

my sewing machine having an extremely bad case of

"BUGGERED STITCHING" or "B.S." for short.(wink)

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For those of you that have been lucky enough not to have experienced this

phenomenon with your sewing machine, this is what it looks like.

This is the back of a quilt for my Granddaughter,

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see the mess of thread (pretty bad, isn't it?).

No matter how many times I re-threaded, ripped out, re-stitched, ripped out, re...

you get the picture?!

After the post, I had so many fantastic friends share their solutions with me that I was able to

complete both my Grandkids quilts!

Thank you all so very much!

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The way I fixed the problem  was to cut out a small circle of

sew-in interfacing and place it in the bobbin case first

then my bobbin!! No more headaches!!

I may give the teflon discs a try yet but since I'm 45 minutes from the nearest retailer,

this solution was spot on!

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You don't want to miss the next 3 days of the

Wicked Blog Hop.

Stop in to see "Spiderella" and enter my GIVEAWAY!