Fabric and Burned Iron

Well, my design wall looks the same as it did in the last design

wall posting so I didn't want to bore you with that today,

  instead I will show you what I plan to have

on my design wall in weeks or months to come!!

I plan on taking the black and white fat quarters and cut more from the

bottom yards and make a Turning Twenty, believe it or not

I have never done one of those yet.  I think I have the pattern

and loaned it to my daughter in law, so will have to track it

down first.

 If you go back to my last posting you will see where one of my local quilt shops

went out of business due to the owner going into retirement....so she really

had some good sales this last week.  No time to sew, had to shop.

The above fabric I plan on doing a Rail Fence with the bottom three and

a small border of black Kona I already had on hand. Then one of the

shop teachers talked me into the plaid for the border, not sure on that

but will see how it looks after the rail fence is done.

 There were some really good buys going on so I had to build up on some backing and

some stash fabric as I told myself I would never be able to find fabric again at the price

they were going for in the shop's closing sale.  So I indulged a little too much.  I don't know

what I will do with the wild flower fabric....just really liked it!!

 I did plan on trying to get more stack and whack blocks done for my wall and

this is how it started.  I sewed some and then plugged in the iron and left the room.

I returned and it smelled funny so I thought I better set it on the ironing board before

setting my seams and it was on there just a touch and the smoke rolled!!!!

I am so glad I didn't touch my fabric with it as I had purchased it late last

summer and just got enough to do my project. If I had burned that

block I don't know how I would have replaced that fabric!

The iron hit the trash sack, actually I threw it on the ground first then went

back and got it.  The thing was stinking up the sewing room!!

I still can't believe it heated up that hot in such a short time.

Glad I didn't leave it on and walk off for very long, it had one of those

deals where it turns itself off after a certain amount of time...but

after this blow up doubt that was working.