As some of you know, I can be easily distracted at times. Yesterday I was sitting in my usual spot on the sofa in the living room, with my laptop sitting on a cooling fan base and realized the darn cooling fan was digging into my legs, leaving marks. I’m a quilter so what do quilters do? They drop everything and make a little quilt to sit on their lap to protect it from the base of the cooling fan. Isn’t that what everyone does?
So off I went into my sewing room and although this is a simple little project I spent quite a bit of time deciding on the fabric to use. I finally realized it needed to be made with a fabric that you will find spread throughout my house, pillows as well as on the seat of all my dining room chairs and chairs in my library. BTW, I still have enough of the fabric to make a gazillion more pillows or whatever, I doubt that I’ll ever run out.
So here it is,…………..my Lap Quilt for my Laptop…………………………..
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And on my lap, doing it’s job.
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Simple, yes? No not really. I decided I wanted to quilt the center of it with overlapping circles using my Westalee rulers. Great idea but the while practicing I continually had skipped stitches. I tried everything, new needle, adjust the top tension as well as the bobbin tension. I cleaned and oiled the machine but nothing seemed to work. I finally changed the thread and all of a sudden no more skipped stitches. It’s hard to see but here’s the circles I quilted.
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Of course then I had to decide on the binding and that took a while but I finally decided on two different greens and completed the little quilt using a faux piping technique that I explain in a tutorial that I link to over there on the right ------>.
So now I have a little quilt to sit on my lap when I set my laptop and cooling fan base on my lap……………….it only took me all day.
But I like it.
Enjoy,
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