Ta-DONE

Cotton Candy Sue is now off the UFO list. It's been awhile since I blogged anything because
1. I've been working on this quilt.
2. I took a way-cool Hoochie Mama Quilts workshop. (photos forthcoming)
AND
3. Our sewer line took in tree roots as house guests for the week, so it got ALL backed up in the basement. Bleeeeegggghhhh.

We were host to three sets of plumbers during the week who were trying to figure out why their spinning, snaking claws couldn't tear through a hard spot in the sewer line. Come to find out the claws were hitting projecting tile from a joint that's out of place in the tile pipe. Yeah, my joints, too. I feel for you, babe.

So now we get to cast around for bids to replace the sewer line. And dig up all the clover we've so carefully cultivated in our backyard. Was it just last September that we replaced all our water supply lines, all the way from the meter and throughout the house? I guess so. So I also guess the expiration date for this house's plumbing is 66 years all the way around.

It's like we've begun to build a new house without the benefit of that new house smell. It's another smell...

Hopefully, these shots from the finished quilt have offset the distastefulness of the majority of this entry. One thing I want to make note of, though, about this quilt is how I did the binding. It's a self-binding job, with the backing fabric wrapped around the front. When I looked up how to do this exactly--it's been awhile--the instructions pointed out that wraparound binding is inferior since it is single-ply on the edge of the quilt.

But I managed to make the fabric double thickness, thankfully. I took a bunch of pictures of the process, so that's another topic I plan on posting here. Later.

Meanwhile, does anyone know how to dissipate that "not so fresh" feeling that's clinging to the air in my house? I suspect eau de bleach might help douse it. I've already mopped the basement floor three times. I figure a half dozen more will help erase the creepiness the floor gives me when I walk on it.