At It's Finest
Thank God I don't have ugly kids... The saying goes something like: No matter what life throws at me, thank God...
Ugly. What is ugly? I've lived in various places, various states across this country, and somewhere I've picked up the phrase that includes the word ugly. For instance when my kids were arguing: 'now, don't be ugly', or 'that was an ugly thing to do'. I've used it as a warning: 'if you do that I guarantee you it will get ugly'.
When the girls in my family were youngsters my Grandmother would admonish us with, 'Beauty is only skin deep', but when I got much older someone added to that 'Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone'.
Indeed that seems to hold true. I've seen some good looking people—on the outside, but on the inside? Ugly went clear to the bone. The scriptures teach that babies are born innocent, but it doesn't take long for them to change that.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 "Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
Inventions there doesn't mean new sewing machines or can openers.
One of my favorite scriptures is Philippians 4: 8 & 9 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9) The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Moving back to the theme from last week.
My computer skills are still amazing to me. That I don't mess up worse than I do is exciting. Above is a picture of the way I use the upholstery needle and loop around the corner with the yarn. I make a long stretch of yarn and cut the yarn at about the middle of the square. I then tie three knots in the same yarn. You can see the white basting at the edge of the quilt. It goes through all three layers, but I had to be careful NOT to catch the sheeting on the frame, only the quilt material.
Below you can see the upholstery needle through the quilt corners. I have done several rows around. First row pink, second row purple, third row neon green, and I'm working on the second row of purple.
A couple of things about the above picture. Remember, the quilt bottom is basted to the frame sheeting, the batting spread over it, and the top is stretched and pinned to the quilt frame sheeting. Then the three layers are basted together (not to the sheeting on the frame). I tie the corners all around the quilt, but not having go go gadget arms when I've reached as far as I can reach, I unpin any remaining pins up to my last tied row and clip the basting off of the quilt bottom holding it to the sheeting along the sides (not the sheeting on the short side bottom). The basting needs to stay attached on the bottom board, because it is on that board you roll the finished part of the quilt.
The rolling is really a two person operation. Loosen the two clamps on the side you are rolling just enough to slide them off, one person on each side. Don't lose the clamp, keep it right there. Then each person firmly pulls the quilt toward themselves, and turns it under rolling as they turn. Roll it only as far up as your last tied patch. Tightly screw the clamps back on the boards to hold everything in place again. You can see Old Fuzzy Farmer is better at his side than I am, but we persevered. We had to repeat the roll about three times in order for me to tie the whole thing. I did get it out of the frame Saturday night, but I will need to bind the edges before it is a finished, finished project ready to give to one of my young helpers.
