I’ve had a bit of an odd day in the craft room.
I melted color right off of some fabric.
I don’t even know how I managed it since it’s supposedly cotton that I had prewashed (which I don’t normally do, but did this time since it was bright red).
This is the side of my ironing board after I hit the sticky iron with some Iron Off to get the gunk off.
Yuck! Time to give the cover a good washing too. =/
Ironing now out of the question, I decided it was time to make a needle minder. I scored a covered button kit for a quarter at a discount store a few weeks back for this purpose and just haven’t had time with everything else.
…I’ll never get into the covered-button business.
Simply snap the back in place? My foot!
I ended up having to use a wooden spool and a hammer to bash the thing in there. If I hadn’t removed the shank to glue in a magnet, I would have destroyed the button. I swear I’m not normally this inept.
…but the button was made, albeit wonky and well hammered. Now I just need a big enough magnet; the only neodymium ones I have are about 1/4″ and I’d like something much larger.
I did at least do one thing right, I finished putting the green sashing and border on the gnome quilt. It calls for second round of border but I’m not quite sure I want to add one or what color to do if I did.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
(ignore the lopsided gnome on the bottom, middle…I’m going to try fixing him if there’s enough play in the seams…if not, he stays wonky)
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