a new round of wrestling

I think - now - it was a really really really nutty idea to quilt this thingy in circles. - Why did noone warn me? fellow quilters are not supposed to let others walk blindinly into circle sewing hell!

no worries the white tape is just for the thump - got hit by a ball and bent a little too much. The white is nicer than the purplish blue though ... the blue band aid on the pinky- well I was really stupid moving my sewing machine over a bit, touched one of the little light bulbs - and I know you are not supposed to put band aids on blisters, but I can't have spots on my white quilt ...

aren't those socks fabulous?

See how so not good the fabric placement is for quitling? I don't know what I did wrong with the initial basting, but I seriously had to re-do it in the corners. Any ideas as to why that happend?

I shall continue with the circling with now newly basted straight corner. That's the reason for an unvoluntary break - but it's time for dinner anyway

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on my knees

I complained about it before - but complainign doesn't seem to help, I spent another round of pin basting on my knees on the floor. Anyway this is a batting experiment, I ordered wool batting for my next quiltover Christmas and it finally arrived this week.

It is not actually produced for quilters, but rather for home spinners, so it's very fluffy but also comes apart easily, but it's really very soft, the cream colour doesn't really show on the pictures, well it's more a butter yellow, and it still has a touch of sheep smell clinging to it.

It was a bit fiddly to get unfolded, but it turned out to be just the right square size for one of my UFOs that's been waiting for some time now in one of the storage boxes. Lucky me the batting fit the quilt perfectly ... just a little iron love and a ton of pins missing

Now I'm off to think about quilting patterns, straight line, try free motion - the only thing that's sure is that it needs to be really dense or the batting will just "ball up". I'm really terrified of having to wash it.

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