Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

I have read 56 books now, in August, according to my Goodreads tracking. (Yes, still LOTS of paranormal romance books read here) Oh, it’s much more than that, but somehow I find that I would feel embarrassed to add all the childrens books I’ve read to the count. Because some of those books have been read about a 100 times (surely!) by now. What with having to read some of them over and over again straight after finishing. Reading to kids can be like that. Or, after the first page, they can be like ”meeh!” and don’t want to see the book again. They’re small book snobs. Picky readers, gotta love them 😘

I have only the borders left until the top is done. I have - only - the borders left... Nearly done with one, look: It feels like this is taking forever. Because of these borders. That I pinning on, and sewing, one at time. Because I really don’t need any more pins-and-needles related accidents. Twice have been quite enough, thank you kindly. It’s official now. I have BLED for this quilt. Damn those pinning needles... #scrapquilt #tickertape #rainbowquilt #needlesareawful Ett inlägg delat av Linnea Grönstrand-Mölsä (@linneagronstrandmolsa) 3 Aug 2018 kl. 4:51 PDT That was the first one. The second one was when my little boy started kicking  me on the lap and legs while I was sitting on the sofa (and sewing on the first border). He kicked a pin straight into the right side of my right knee. I bled through the pajama-pants I was wearing, and I won’t hand-sew while sitting there in a looooong long while either now. That much pain was quite eno...

At the last update, I had 10 hexie flowers/rosettes made. Now I have 22. It means (if I follow the pattern and make a square quilt) that I only have 24 hexie flowers/rosettes more to sew! And then it’s onward and starting to plan how I want all of them to lay on the quilt. I predict some difficulties, because some of the flowers/rosettes don’t match the others particularly well. As mentioned before, I may have to place some flowers/rosettes on the back of the quilt. Maybe to become part of a quilt label? Well see when we get there ;)  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLEASE ask permission BEFORE you PUBLICLY copy anything from my blog. All images, all my text, and content that I specifically haven't referenced as belonging to someone else on this site are my property and they cannot be used, copied or transmitted without my consent. The exception here is Pinterest, because I give you permission to pin my photos there IF YOU CITE THEM AS COMING FROM THIS BLOG AND THUS FROM ME. ...

There are times when something (that something in this case being a social media event) gets you interested, but you only join up when are pulled in by sheer gravitas as you start to see the physical representations of that event. That made no sense to you? Okay, but if I say that a quilt-along/stitch-along social media event pulled me in when I started seeing the quilts people were creating? Does it make more sense now? Anyway, searching for #kingfisherstitchalong on Instagram will show you lots of pretty. And even though I had already decided NOT to take part in it, back before the summer started and the event was announced and kicked off, well...I obviously changed my mind. And instead cut out the background pieces for the quilt one day before the event was to officially end. I thought, while I was feeling really ”off” in my head (because my therapy had only just begun), that ”I could try to just make the quilt out of things in my stash” and ”I think I can...

Almost two month have passed since the last progress update on my projects, so I thought I'd write an update on how far I've gotten on all of them. During May, I had to bring my Pfaff sewing machine in to be serviced. I did that on the 25th, and it the technician until the 17th of July to find parts and get it fixed. Not only was the bobbin winder broken (that's the reason I brought it in to be fixed), the electronics that regulate the stitch length had gotten broken too. I'm so relieved to get it back. No more stalling because I'd rather be using the even feed feature on that machine, than use the Husqvarna machine that doesn't have it at all. Back in action! Thanks to that whole thing, and me feeling depressed about that and other things, not many quilting projects have had any progress. But since I instead actually have had some time to go shopping for supplies, I can get some things done now. Like before, some projects have been moved from U...

Today, while on our way into town, I ran in to the mail boxes in our local store to pick up a package. I had ordered a few thing from  Ompelijan maailma  ("Sewist world" in English). It was the only store in Finland (online) that I could find all the things I needed at the same time. What I really needed were the thimbles. I've lost my old metallic one, and it wasn't even all that comfortable to wear. So, I snooped around, and I found the ones in the photo. They grip well around your fingers because they're soft, and I found them in S, M and L sizes. Yes, I bought all three sizes, because I had no idea what sizes my fingers are in their scale. Size L fits my thumb, and size S all my other fingers (on both hands), So I have and extra size M. Which fits if I happen to have a plaster around my finger (yes, I could check because this happened today...) It’s official now. I have BLED for this quilt. Damn those pinning needles... #scrapquilt ...