Machine is Smoking!!

 

My Mother called me the other morning about 10:30 AM. She asked what I was doing. "Sewing on the Pink and Silver Quilt," I told her. "Wow Lynne, 10:30 in the morning and you're already sewing!"

I didn't have heart to tell her I'd been sewing since 8 AM. I was awake, I got up and went directly into the studio (in my nightgown.) When I'm "deep into" a quilt, that's what happens.

Because of the layout of this quilt, there are at least nine blocks that end up in the quilt that cannot fit on the design wall. When I took the photo above, I was working on those extra blocks on the right side.

About forty minutes later I had finished that section on the upper right and was getting ready to work on the section just below.  That didn't take all that long. I did that and then stopped for lunch. After lunch I sewed the big sections together. There were about five or six of them.

Here is that big section all sewn together. I think it's about 74 or so inches wide. It's wider than I normally like, but the design wanted to be that size and I have long known that "what the quilt wants, the quilt should get."

After that I sat down on the porch to read. I read until I finished "The Art of a Lie" by Laura Shepherd-Robinson and DAMN it was good. I did NOT see the ending coming. To say I recommend it is an understatement. Go get / borrow this book and read it! The characters got so much under my skin that when I went to bed the night before I couldn't stop thinking about them, and worrying about them. I can't remember the last time that happened.

PS, when I sent photos of the day's work to my friend Susan, she texted back... "Lynne, you're on fire! Your machine is SMOKING!" 

Ergo the title of this post.