PREP TIME

 

It's been a whole month since our last market, so I have to do some prep work today.

I want to pare down the number of runners we take to market, as the weather is not looking too good for tomorrow..

I heard from the market organiser late last night, and we have been given a 'temporary' site for tomorrow.  It's a good spot, right next to where our old spot was.  But we might not get it next month.

Stew is going to come out with me tomorrow, and Lacy is also going to join us, so Stew doesn't have to do as much.

Talking of Lacy, I'm going over to hers this morning to get me eyebrows dyed.  I gave her an eyebrow dye kit recently, and it seems to work just fine.  So, she's gunna do mine today.

If it looks OK, I shall stop getting mine done at the Base, at $50 a pop.

After that, I shall come home and work on the market prep, and then move on to the next cot quilt I've got on the table.  It's another cute one.

ONWARD...

ABOVE: And the eye brows are done.  Lacy did a good job.  I'm never going to pay $50 to have them done again!  WHOOP WHOOP.

ABOVE: On my way home I stopped in at Spotlight to get some of this basting spray.  Hopefully it will hold the cot quilt fabrics and backing fabrics to the batting, thereby stopping the puckering.  I DO use pins as well, but they were not holding it enough.  Fingers crossed this works.

ABOVE: I also bought another cutting mat, so that my work table is covered completely.  I've been waiting months for Spotlight to get in the double sided cutting mats.  Yaaaa, finally have another one.

VICKI:  lol, yes I did know that... I have used it before, many years ago.

ABOVE:  A nice photo of Lacy, tending to her fish.  She's a bit precious when it comes to her fish!

ABOVE: Luckily it wasn't raining when I set up to do the spraying this afternoon.

It was an easy process.

But it didn't stop a little bit of puckering here and there on the front... not enough to be noticeable to anyone but a quilter though.

It certainly adds to the cost of a quilt, one can will be enough to do two cot quilts, and a can costs $25.

I think I might not be using it much!

ABOVE:  Today's cot quilt.  

ABOVE: And it's 'backside', which I don't usually show on here.  But today I decided I would.

I am now taking a break, before sorting out what runners to take tomorrow, and getting things ready to load into the car once Stew is home.

9.05 pm, and everything is ready for tomorrow's early start.

I'm hoping we don't get too much rain, as it is supposed to be a terribly wet day!  Derrr.

I sometimes wonder why we keep doing it, rain, hail and shine?

Probably because I want to sew, and don't need a gazillion table runners, bowl cosys, and so on.

One day we will give up markets, and I will just have to gift all of my shit away.

But not tomorrow.

Time to sign off, catch ya tomorrow.