New Fall Swap block
I had started my fall swap block ( for my crazy quilt group) a few weeks ago, last week I started stitching on it and decided before I made my hands hurt too much I would scrap the block. I love the block but a few of those pieces are upholstery fabrics. I did one seam and thought there is no way I can stitch these fabrics, not only was it hard on my hands, it pretty much ate my silk pearl thread. YesI was using the correct needle, it was the fabric, to dense and too textured. one really nice thing about doing crazy work, you really only use small scrap sizes for the piecing, it wasn't too heartbreaking to toss this. I started my fresh block and used a few tricks I've learned in my BCQC (basic crazy quilt class) To wrap my Q-snap frame: I used Micropore tape ( a medical tape). I bought a box of this last year to make homemade washi tape - which was just way to much work. This wrap should last through many hoopings I wraped my q-snap for the first time