Saturday, March 28, 2009

Number Eight - Peter's Wife

Rhymeland Quilt block number eight is finished!
That pumpkin shell doesn't look very spacious, does it!?


From this angle, the letters seem to be a little bit "uphill". It was drying on a towel when I took the photo, so I think it will be straight when it is pressed.

This was the last block that was ready to stitch. I had not stamped the last four designs, but they were waiting to be transferred to the blocks. My iron of 35 (or so) years betrayed me! It stuck to the paper and pulled it out of position before the entire design was clear! Just a little on one side was too faint, though, so I decided I could pencil it in.

I decided that maybe I had the temperature turned up too hot, so I turned it down for the next one. The same thing happened again, only this time there was not enough of the design to salvage so that block was unusable. Naturally, I didn't learn my lesson and I ruined the fourth one, too!

I can wash the blocks and reuse them, but I will have to re-trace the designs with the tracing pencil before I can re-stamp them.

I think I may have ruined the Teflon finish on the sole plate of my iron during my mis-adventures with t-shirt stabilizer.... I guess a new iron every 35 years isn't too extravagant...

Who knows? Its been so long since I shopped for one, maybe there is new ironing technology! Maybe I will get on that has wi-fi!

5 comments:

Iron Needles said...

And probably you could toss that old on, really...after 35 years? You will be surprised how light they are. And they no longer have to be heated in the fireplace.

Anonymous said...

I was thinking of you today when I used my mixer..the one I got from you that you got in about 1978..it still makes really good cookies! Love, WS

Lynne said...

Peter, Peter the pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her .... She seems to be quite happy in her pumpkin shell! Sorry for all your iron-y mishaps!

P.S. Seeing the first bear of the year is just like seeing our first robin of the year! ;) The cubs come next ...

Martha said...

Darling blocks -- I didn't use that one because I didn't want to color in that giant pumpkin. I haven't used those transfer pencils in years -- it's so much easier to use a light box -- Gordon made mine from a wine box and it's great. I'll put it on my blog today.

Anonymous said...

I have a blender that my sister gave me-- she got it as a wedding present and they've been married 39 years! Yes, it still works! I don't know much about the iron. . . for some reason. Tish