The Great Interfacing Fiasco

Last week when I was wrestling with the gold points around the black box, a couple of readers suggested I use some iron-on interfacing on the gold fabric.

So I drove out to the sewing store and bought some.  I brought it home only to discover it wasn't iron-on. (ARGH!!)  I went rummaging around the closet and found some. It was a little stiffer that what I wanted, but I knew it would work.  So I read all the instructions and ironed it to a big chunk of the gold fabric.  It looked great. Then I picked it up - or rather ATTEMPTED to lift it up from the ironing table. It did not move.  It was stuck!

Yup, the gold fabric was SO THIN the adhesive went straight through it, and adhered to the top of the ironing table. I had to lift hard to peel the stuff off, which ruined both the gold fabric and my ironing table.

DOUBLE ARGH!

Fortunately I had bought some of the silver ironing board cover fabric a few weeks ago, so after I got over being so pissed off, I recovered the ironing board yesterday.

It is safe to say the slippery gold fabric has met an untimely demise.

Gold Thoughts

Here is what the gold was kinda sorta supposed to look like.  Except it took over and drew too much attention to the shiny gold around the box. And frankly, so much of the shiny gold (and no, it was NOT Lame) just looked cheap and tacky.

After lots of in the car thinking, I may have a better solution.  I still wanted gold, I just didn't want so much of it. For a while I thought of gold fabric, but that would have been equally distracting, and meant I'd have to go fabric shopping.

Then I thought, maybe I need some white or cream fabric with gold in it? And I kept thinking... where was I going to find that? 

CHRISTMAS!!Christmas fabrics often have gold metallic accents.

It just so happened I had some in the nether regions of my stash.  I like this a lot better, and even though some of the fabrics might not be "perfect," I like this direction better than the shiny gold.

I'm on vacation for the next two weeks, and I plan to finish the quilt top. Whee!!

Going For The Gold

 If the bright colored letters fly out of the box, what color to I put behind the box?  The box is black and the main background color is a dark brown. The black box would get lost.
 

So what if I tried a neutral gray?

 Bleh. 

I don't "just push on" when I don't know what to do, I walk away and think.  In this case, I got in the car and drove to work.  I do some of my best thinking when I am driving, or rather, waiting at stop lights.  What about gold?  What if I surrounded the box with gold?
 

It's going to be interesting to see how this looks.  However, I got a big lesson when I started work. When sewing this slippery metallic stuff, make 100% sure you are using a very sharp needle that hasn't hit any pins.

Ask me how I know this.

Love Gold!

I'm sure you're all bored as heck with this, but I finally got all these letters sewn together into rows. I am thrilled with the bright gold touches! They really sparkle.

I've had a really busy last few days and I'm going to take it easy for the next week or so. I may or may not post much, but don't worry. I'm just recharging my batteries!