Frustration....

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"Audrey" wrote:

If you do not have a pin close tool as suggested I discovered that the pick
from a nut cracker set has a handle with grooves that will catch the pin and
help to close or open either way. Have a great day!!!
Audrey


Thanks, Audrey! I do have the tool, and it's the *other* hand's finger
that's "injured". It figures, huh?
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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
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AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

Sorry to hear, what a pain. But thanks for reminding me why I always pin on
the floor. You can see the whole thing. I have to move furniture, but that
seems easier than taking out all of the pins !

Plus I just sit on the quilt, I think it is easier on my back, and I am not
as young as I used to be . . .

"Sandy Foster" wrote in message
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I've been babysitting a lot for the past few days -- all the more so
since DH is out of town and can't give me a break all day long. It's
been a long time since I've had toddlers around for any length of time,
and it wears me out! G But that's not what has me frustrated -- it's
just probably the cause of my carelessness...

I'd finally made the backing for my feathered star WIP (and I can't
remember who sent me the Excel worksheet for figuring out how to do
diagonal backings, but thanks so much! It worked!) and then pieced
together the last lengths of black 80/20 batting. So far so good.

This afternoon while the boys were being unusually good, I figured I
could lay out the quilt sandwich on the table; after all, with DH away,
it could stay there indefinitely instead of having to disappear at
mealtimes. Okay. But here's where my pooped condition came into play.
I *thought* I'd double-checked the overhang, I really did! But after
putting in about 500 pins (I like to pin *securely*, and the boys had
left), I came to the very last section that had been hanging off the
table, and it was about 2" short of backing. ACK!

I now have a lovely callus on my finger from inserting and then removing
all of those pins. :S It's so lovely that it even bled a little. Sheesh.
But the quilt sandwich is again spread on the table and ready for
pinning -- tomorrow, when my finger recovers. And this time, I
*swear* I've double-checked. I hope.

Did I mention that the backing looks pretty cool? It's almost all the
same navy as the background on the front, but it has a wide strip of the
leftover stripe from the star points -- except that the strip is split
where the diagonal seaming happened. Definitely different.

Now I'd better get ready for the board meeting tonight. sigh
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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education