It's been a bit stressful around here lately, but I'm trying to focus on the good things and get into a "gratefulness" frame of mind. A couple of positives- we have adopted a delicious new puppy (she's the upside down one in the middle), my sister and baby Anna Banana are coming to visit this weekend, and Mike and I are going to New Mexico for Thanksgiving in just a few short weeks.
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On the crafting front, I buckled down and layered the nativity quilt for quilting. I used spray baste to baste it, and it's just barely small enough (40 x 40) that I think that will be ok. Any bigger and I don't think there's any way I could keep it together. I used a sulky temporary adhesive to attach the tulle to the quilt top (to cover up any loose corners), but I think I didn't use enough or something because it didn't stick very well. Since there aren't any ditches to stitch in to stabilize, I started by stitching around the people in the nativity. I also stitched around some major shapes that are not depicted in the mosaic but that will be overlaid in the quilting, namely two angels (in the sky) and a sheep (next to Joseph). I'm now starting FMQing all of it- I began by filling in the angels with gold free-form feathers, and am slowly moving on with the rest of it. I like it so far, it makes me happy that it is getting done, but there is a lot of quilting and it always feels a bit overwhelming to me at this stage.
And here's the angel from the back.
I'm starting to think seriously about the Christmas Crafting that needs doing, but so far haven't made any progress!!
Linking up with Lee over at WIP: Wednesday.
