How I Spent my Saturday Morning (with a little help from my friends)

This morning I set out to hand sew the binding onto the Line Dancing quilt.  Right away, I realized I had a problem.

Things seemed a little lumpy and jumpy.

Peek-A-Boo!!!

It's a good thing he's so darned cute.

It wasn't easy, but I managed to get that accomplished, and then went downstairs to finish up with the embellishing.  I used a glue gun to glue the clothespins to the clothesline.  That was a new technique to me.  My glue gun has been hanging out in my sewing room unopened for at least a year or two.  I've never used it before.  I had to read the instructions about how to do it, and then I had to practice a little so that I didn't end up with great globs of glue everywhere.  (Awesome alliteration.)  Also, I had a little problem with the glue "hairing" for lack of a better word, but even that ceased to be a problem after a couple of tries.  It was easier than I thought it would be, and it worked really well for this application.

Okay, those babies are stuck down.

And since this technique is new to me, I'll be linking up to:

I did a little more embellishing of the clothes too.  I added a hot fix crystal to the red brassiere.  Looks like it's straight out of the Victoria's Secret catalog.  Don't you agree?

Then I used hot fix nailheads to add buttons and rivets to the overalls.

And I added a row of hot fix nailheads to the shirt as buttons.

Then I used these sort of opalescent nailheads as buttons on the dress, and one as a fastener for the belt.

Here's where I momentarily considered gluing myself to death with the glue gun.  In the process of pressing this hot fix fastener onto the belt of the skirt below, I managed to melt the twine I'm using for the clothesline.  Man, I hate it when I do something like that.  So I just put the clothespin on a little crooked to cover it.  Rats.  You wouldn't have noticed, would you?

And then it was finished!  Here.  Let me take a picture of the whole thing.

Excuse me, Photobomber.  Could you move over please?  Can you see I'm trying to take a picture here?

A little more to the left please?  Oh forget it.  We'll just go upstairs and use the table.  (The floor sort of is his domain.  What was I thinking?)

All done!  And here's the back.

And now it's taken its rightful place in my laundry room.  See the wallpaper there on the left side? 

And finally, my new pedometer and I are getting along just fine now.  While walking with Sue yesterday, I managed to set a new world record personal best for the number of steps taken in a single day.  Yay me!

And since it's after noon, and I'm still in my PJ's, it's probably time to do something else, don't you think?  What about you?  Are you dressed yet on this Saturday morning, er, afternoon?