To Wash…or NOT to Wash…

How often do YOU wash your jeans?  This was a question that they asked on the NEWS last night…  Seems like a simple enough question….I wear my jeans a couple of times..until the knees bag or I get a stain.  Then I turn them inside out and fire them into the dirty laundry.  What about you?

 

Well, according to Jean manufactures, if we want our jeans to stay in pristine condition we shouldn’t wash our jeans as often as we do..in fact we should only be washing them every SIX MONTHS!!  We should spot wash any stains and put them in the freezer to kill any bacteria! (yuck)  There was no mention of baggy knees…or any mention of smell…YUCK!!

I don’t know about you but I’m liking my rag-tag, faded, CLEAN jeans better and better all the time!!

Yup…it’s a slow quilting day…:o)

Have a FUN Friday and Happy Quilting!~P

Sick NEWS…

What’s right up there with YOU being sick??  Why..when your sewing machine is sick of course!  YUP… You guessed it, my poor little Jan (ome) is under the weather.  Seems her computer is upset and is stuck in Bobbin Wind mode…

…she’ll sew but she won’t change stitch length, no automatic needle down or back and forth…she really is not herself!!

So I bundled her up and it’s off to the doctor for her…

Jan’s never been sick a day in her life…she’s too young for it to be anything too serious…or god forbid…terminal!! I’m hoping a squirt of oil here and there and she will be back to her old self!

I wonder how long her recovery will take??  Yikes…no Jan!!  I miss her already!!  :o(

Hope you have a thoughtful Thursday and Happy Quilting!~P

Staying Focused….

…is REALLY hard to do right now.  I have a million things to do before we pull out of here to Snowbird South…like getting the house ready for the House Sitters!

Yesterday is a good example of my thought processes…My goal was to clean my sewing room so that I could use the cutting table and ironing table to their full advantage in order to ready the blocks to the Autumn Quilt….

So what did I get done…well the NEWEST addition to my little GO! Family caught my eye…and before I knew what had possessed me..I was…

..grabbing one of these…a WOOL Charm Pack that I had ordered from Primitive Gatherings…all these beautiful reds in different textures but from the same colour family…that I had been SAVING….

…and before I knew what I was doing I had ironed Steam-a-Seam Lite onto the backs of THREE charms!!

I laid the Sacrificial Lamb onto the die…and …rolled…

Do I hear any AHHHHHHs in the audience??  Oh so pretty….

Throw a wool dot on top…too big?

Yes…too big but isn’t the texture wonderful….

Awww…just RIGHT!! 

How about putting it onto a wool background?

   …perhaps a grey oval mat…How easy…how simple…

How about green?…do I hear Christmas Music in the background?

Yup these flowers REALLY are FUN!  Guess that’s why Mr. GO! named them Fun Flowers!  I wonder how many he made before he thought ‘Now THAT was FUN!’ like I did?!

Then I remembered THIS quilt from the Buggy Barn….

…AND this quilt (also from the Buggy Barn)….and BOTH are on my To-Do Wish List…with a little tweak of the scissors I could have some very FUN daisies!

Hmmmm…. 

Suddenly the FOG lifts and I haven’t even STARTED to clean my sewing room …in fact now I have an even bigger mess…but I did have FUN!!  I REALLY must STAY focused!!

Have a Woolie Wednesday and Happy Quilting!~P