The Red Herring is quilted

I llowed myself a bit of sewing fun tonight - I had a last row to do on my Red Herring and it kept staringat me - that is getting in the way being moved around ...

It was really hard to capture the quilting lines - even though it's black thread on red ...

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luckiestestest day this week

I could have kissed the post man - if I would have been home wen he came by - he dropped two swap parcels. My Doll Quilt for September and my very special "Swap°pen auf Deutsch" cushion .

Ahh and I had this crazy idea about finishing up the Red Herrign top ... it works out fine - I might add a row in the future ... at the bottom or the bottom and the sides who knows I don't have batting to finish it anyway at the moment.

I decided to go for bigger sashing there because it helps with the shift of the blocks - if you loko at the others with thinner sashing at the top/bottom of te blocks you will see that the "herring bone" pattern gets shifted quite a bit to the right ... I tried to avoid that - the bigger distance with the sashing makes up for that to some degree. Oh and turning the top up sided down helps a lot because it changes the way you look at the shift. [Do I make sense?]

Ohh and I get to drive home and enjoy some motherly cooking - and it's finally autumn - we broke the zero degree margin tonight and we have heavy fog with sight under 50 meters - cycling was hell this morning - the should make pedestrians wear head lamps and reflectors ....

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thursday sewing marathon

So yeah - sport is unhealthy - I realize that time and time again ... but I just can't stop - well that's what tape is for right?!

Yeah I had some time to catch up on some sewing - of course the I really had to get going with the Red Herring, it's a QAL project that's been on since the beginning of September.

               

Yeah well I'm not this focused on one block kind of person, so catching up was hard work - but I managed to get a sort of chain piecing system going. I did each step with all 8 strip sets, so after a few hours and hmm a little bit of Longmire (the TV series) - ok lots of - I had a 3x3 layout ready in the evening, and as it's autumn the light is gone early, so there are only crappy pictures.

I think it was Claire who wondered what lamb sausage is - well it's really just any kind of sausage made from lamb meat - in this case it's liver sausage, Fleischwurst (ask wikipedia) and some hmm well I really have no idea and the dictionary isn't really helping with explaining German sausage variations in English ... maybe I should just send a tin hmmm customs won't like that ...

Which is why I can't possibly really explain how to do "traditional" (that is traditional in my family) Maultaschen (filled pasta) are made because you need special sausages - it's really interesting how every country has its own special kind of filled pasta ... Anyway grandma is happy to have a full freezer again ... ohh and that's a "pasta board" there ... very useful for all kinds of fresh pasta ... but then there are only two kinds one really needs - Maultaschen and "broad pasta" for "Krautnudeln" (cabbage pasta)

aye the "old" Ladies at work (that is mom working and granny giving 

not always so useful comments) and me taking pictures

Hmm yeah I always get a little sentimental when I was home and got all the good food and then go to the stores here just to see bewildered faces when asking for some ingredients, I guess I will have to learn how to make my own sausages eventually ... or just move back ...  It would all be so much better if they could just get themselves to make some decent lye rolls ...

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back in the game

It's almost midnight here - and I'm done with the last paper - Yeah!!! Holidays!!!! (and it's cold and rainy and gray outside)

And of course I dove head first into some sewing therapy - ignoring the dishes and the laundry and well everything really...Well may I introduce you to probably the most ugly fabric I own. I started cutting it into strips for the One Block Wonder QAL. (see the mess at the back? papers are not good for my environment)

Ohh and I'm a week behind on my Broken Herringbone QAL blocks - The Red Herring Quilt - but you see I'm planning on getting caught up soon - that are strips for guaranteed 15 blocks - maybe I get a third one out of each set that would make it strips for hmmm 23 blocks

Yep I have a little something for tin boxes ... and yes that's just a tiny part - and if you ever wondered where your cards and notes end up you send along on swaps or bees or whatevers now you know.

The loooong garden to-do list is waiting for me! ... hmm yeah there aren't really any vegetables or other things edible waiting for me. That's what the July hail did to the stuff - poor blue cabbage ... (or are the English part of the strange group that say it's red?)

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1 gone 1 to go

Lovely news ... paper one is history! On I go to paper two which is the more interesting one, so it shouldn't be to troublesome to get it done, apart from my general dislike for papers and preference for any other kind of exam.

I did start with a trial block for one of the QALs because I was going crazy at my desk -  so this broken herringbone trial block is the first of many for my "Red Herring" Quilt with the MSBHQAL.

I did manage (don't ask me how) to send out my August Bee blocks for the NewBee Bee and BeeBiased. Of course it was only late night sewing therefore I own only crappy pictures.

I did get some more BeeBlocks myself for my July Queen Month ... I got very beautiful Angel Block for a no-show Bee and am still waiting on one more block.

I guess from now on I will always plan to finish Bee Quilts earliest 2 or 3 months after the Queen month. For my other Bee-Quilt I will sew the missing block myself I'm a bit mad at the uncommunicativeness of the Bee, but I can ignore people too.... I just want to finish it. Here is the JulyQueen update ...

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