Look Out...I'm ready to EXPLODE!!

Excuse me for this but

I am so pissed off right now I'm about ready to scream

or throw my machine out the front door!

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"Why, Carolyn, what's the matter?"

you maybe asking.

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This! This has been happening for the past three hours!

I quilt along, everything is fine then all of a sudden my machine

(whose name is Mud, right now) starts this.

Out comes the GrimRipper and we spend some time together.

I rethread, check bobbin case, take any little bit of fuzz and pluck it out,

say a prayer and try again.

Just when I'm feeling rather confident and think that,

"Yes, I will have this ready to take on Monday to my Granddaughter"!

Wait for it....

more of the same!!! Grrrrr!!!

I have a question for those in the know,

do the BOBBIN WASHERS help eliminate this from happening?

1 = 10 NO! REALLY it does...

Instead of being  this guy

 all you have to do is click here for the answer!

The Learning Curve

Tell them sew.darn.quilt (that's me) sent you

and we will have a chance to win!

1 person = 10 entries in the CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY and it's

big!

So give a click on The Learning Curve link and please tell them I sent you.

We're going when?

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My hubster threw me for a loop on Saturday,

he asked if I wanted to drive out to see my Dad next week?

Seeing my Dad also means we will be visiting our grandkids!

We will be seeing our granddaughter, Payton, for the very first time no less!

Well we certainly can't go empty handed so Grans starts hunting through her

stash and found these flannels that needed to go on a trip! So, I got to it!

Cutting, sewing, cutting, sewing...all this in less than 2 1/2 hours!

(CHECK OUT MY FIRST TUTORIAL HERE)

for this technique that I learned from Cindy  :O)

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HAPPY STITCHING!!!

Another yummy win

I won this from Bacon then Eggs in the Dots on Dots Blog Hop

This arrived in the mail today, WOOHOO!!!

It's a signed edition of "OUT OF THE BOX"

by Mary Lou Weidman & Melanie Bautista McFarland.

 This book is filled with lots of fabulous projects.

Look what the Scarecrow came with!!

Keep faith in the postal service and eventually they will deliver!

My Doll Quilt Swap quilt arrived today and with this gorgeous testimony to Autumn

came the cute card with 2 lovely pins attached.

My partner for September was Vickie S. and she made a beautiful quilt with the 

maple leaves. 

SPECIAL DELIVERY

From Mother Nature!

October 10th and snow with those big, fluffy flakes.

Yes, winter can be a real pain for alot of reasons but

when we are presented with this it is

* wonderful *

Yesterday was alot of hand quilting and today will be binding

on my DQS for October's "Spooky" theme.

What are you up to today?

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HAPPY STITCHING

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It won't be long now!

BIG GIVEAWAY!!!

We are talking

 COLOSSAL,

AS IN GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS!!

Our very dear friend,

BEV at 44th STREET FABRIC 

is responsible for an awful lot of racing pulses right about now!

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AND!

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