The Kindness of Blog Buddies

I'm constantly struck by the generosity of crafty peeps.  People give of their time, creativity and effort and encourage and support one another with their projects, successes and occasional failures. Sometimes people give practical support too and such was the case this weekend.  I had a lovely day Saturday and my own private free motion quilting lesson thanks to Kris from Life at Rosemary Hill who gave up an entire afternoon to come and show me how it's done. Now I'm not saying she had to stay the whole afternoon  because I bolted the front door and told her she wasn't leaving until I  had a clue. I prefer to think it might have been because she is one fabulous lady in every sense of the word. Plus I bribed her with cake. Naturally we both had our cameras charged and present. Naturally we didn't take any pictures. Bummer, because we are both gorgeous babes in real life.

In between gossiping (no reputations were murdered or besmirched I swear ) I learned how to get the throat plate off my machine (that's right I'd never done it before- doesn't the machine service dude do that? ) , I learned how to clean out all that fluff (I filled a wheelie bin ) and I learned how to  pull up a bobbin thread to the top of the fabric. I know you're all wondering how I managed to sew for so long without knowing this basic stuff aren't you?  Me too! 

This was my first real attempt at FM quilting with a slight clue of what I was doing. It made so much more sense once someone explained it to me. I swear I've googled and  read tutorials until I almost went blind, but yesterday something just clicked. I think.  Now it's all about practice. So this week, I'm going to do 15 minutes a day and see how much improvement I've made at the end of the week.  Thank you Kris for giving up your Saturday afternoon  to stop my infernal whining about how I can't FM quilt. The rest is up to me. 

Otherwise it was a really quiet weekend aside from my squeals of excitement when Mr. P brought me fairy floss home from the hardware store. I'm still wondering which department they sell that in...

Mr. P cooked Kirsten's  Lemony Garlic  Chicken and it rocked our taste buds. Miss P's verdict was "Thats the best meal I've had since I moved out of home". She took home the leftovers. It really bothered Mr. P that his didn't look exactly like Kirsten's and I'm starting to think  that if Kirsten stopped posting recipes my family would starve to death.

I made a  cover for my new diary and did a couple of Christmas projects I cant show  here.

And these mystery objects got started. More on those next weekend.

I'm starting to wonder whether I'll ever quilt again. I am ignoring all my WIP's because I've completely lost interest but have vowed not to start anything new until the WIP's are done. See my problem?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.