Quilting Quilting Quilting Oops!

OMGsh!  I am happily sewing the binding onto the Wizard of Oz t-shirt quilt that I’m going to give to Rachel on Tuesday when I see her,  when I noticed an unusually stiff, hard and sharp area of the quilt. Good grief, Charlie Brown! I have successfully quilted my thread snippers into the quilt.  In the below picture, my fingers are on each end of the scissors.  They are tight in there too.  I don’t know how I missed it with the long arm needle!  There is no wiggle to a seam and open and a quick close either. AUGH!!!  I’m considering leaving them in there.  Rachel would get a hardy laugh out of it and have a great time “showing” all her friends.  Butt, scissors submerged in a quilt is far more dangerous than a few buttons, sew I’m going to have to cut her open and patch her up….It is a ‘patchwork’ quilt after all. Sigh.

Oh the other bad news is that after almost 20 years of faithful service, countless rolled hems on pinafores and table clothes, serger hems on numerous fat quarters, gathered lace bed skirts and curtains an countless other projects, my steady and true Bernina Serger has died.  The Surgeon at the quilt store called and said she is too old for parts (sounds like Obama Care – oops!) and he could not repair her.  I was thinking of burying  her in the back yard and planting a rose bush over her, but the ground is frozen.
A Bad sewing day is still better than a good work day.Sigh,
Lora Zmak

Material Girlfriend

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