Quilting 101

This may be the biggest project I've ever attempted.

Me - the one who does NOT sew - I've decided to take up quilting! Yeah...almost as strange as me wearing a dress.

It started out with repairing a quilt I used when I was little. A lot of the squares had came off so I cut, folded, pieced & sewed new patches on to fix it.

The picture above shows some of the missing squares.








It took a little bit to get the hang of it & the 1st patch took about 2 hours, but eventually things started moving on along...

I had thought that this wouldn't be too much of a project. After all, how hard could just patching up an old quilt be?

If it would have just been one or two squares missing, it wouldn't have been that much to it. However, there were A LOT of squares missing.

I had definitely underestimated this little project!










Every now & then I even suprise myself.

Amazingly, I actually finished this! It took me about a week & a half.

I replaced/repaired the following patches:
* The blue squares that go all the way around.
* The yellow squares inside the blue on the top & bottom
*The green squares on the inside of the blue on the left side of the picture
* The pink squares inside the blue on the right side
* A few navy blue gingham checked squares scattered out randomly



It wasn't as bad as I had originally thought...you know - the whole sewing thing. Now that I'm done with repairing that one, I'm on to even more gigantic projects:

Making my own quilts!

Sparkle's Eggs

Old Shell Boxes

I just don't wanna...

...do anything! Really, I don't. I wake up every morning & if I could, I'd just lay there all day. I don't want to get up - I just want to sleep. I can't seem to get past being tired - every day - all day. To actually get anything done, I have to "make" myself do it.

Take now for example...I want to write...I want to just vent & write everything that is swimming around my head. The problem is that I can't seem to get those thoughts transformed into words. I want to, but at the same time, I don't want to. I'm sure that makes as much sense as everything else I try to explain (ha ha).

How to Heat up a plastic bottle of water in a camp fire.

This article will explain to you how to heat up a standard plastic bottle of water in a campfire without removing the water from the container & without melting the bottle.



1. Take your bottle of water, remove the cap & place it on a flat, level surface.





2. Slowly, add additional water to the bottle until it overflows. Carefully replace the cap without squeezing the container or allowing ANY air to enter the bottle.




3. Place the bottle in the campfire for a couple minutes (smaller containers take less time than larger containers). Make sure to set the bottle close to the edge of the fire so that it can be easily reached when you want to remove it.

~ Any bottle will melt if you leave it too long. Better to take the bottle out too early than too late...you can always put it back in if it is not hot enough, but if the bottle gets too hot & melts, you'll have to start all over with a new bottle.

4. Remove the bottle from the fire & CAREFULLY remove the cap from the container. Your hot water is ready to use!





This info was originally posted here:
How to Heat up a plastic bottle of water in a camp fire. | eHow.com

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