On Saturday, I officially declared an end to tax season. It has been a good time and my clients were wonderful as usual, but it is truly wonderful to know that tomorrow I don’t have to sit at my desk all day long!!
Even better is the fact that my quilt guild is having a 4 day retreat starting on Tuesday and I am going!!! It is a UFO retreat where everyone works on their own projects and I am looking forward to several days of quilting on the Aussie fabric quilt that I made back in December.
So, on Saturday, Michael helped me to move the furniture out of the way and I got organized to baste the quilt. I use a Hobbes Heirloom Fusible Batting and love that I can baste a quilt in less than an hour, just using my iron.
The first step was to lay the batting out on the floor and iron the backing fabric to it……..
The batting sticks a little to the carpet but doesn’t seem to make much difference.
I then turned it over so that the batting side was up and ironed the quilt top to the batting….
So, in about 45 minutes, the quilt sandwich is ready to go.
Then I headed upstairs to get everything ready for the retreat. As I said, I am going to be quilting on a large quilt, so this meant that I want to take the drop-in table for my sewing machine, the board that sits under it to bring it up to the correct height, another folding table in case I need an extra, my swivel chair (so that I can raise it to the right height), my 16 inch square ruler and 24 inch rectangle ruler (in case I get it finished and want to square it up before I add binding), oh yeah, I need to take the binding that I made to go with it. I wonder if I will need an Ott light….better take one just in case. Now, am I REALLY going to be happy just quilting for almost 3+ days….maybe I should take along a hand project, but that requires at least three more boxes of stuff…..
Anyway, after an hour of trying to figure out what I would need, my stack looked like this…..
I guess that it is good that I am driving by myself!!!
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Hope you have a great time; I can't wait to see what the quilt will look like when quilted!
What a perfect reward after all that hard work doing taxes!! Have a wonderful time!!
I'm sure that you are going to have a great time. I hope your car is a big one!I hadn't realised that fusible batting was fusible on both sides. Sounds like a good way to deal with large quilts.