Go Bold or Go Home

I finished making my Gardenvale cross blocks early this month and then jiggered around doing just about anything BUT start cutting the setting triangles for the edges. I had bought two different fabrics for these triangles and making the decision of which to use was holding me back. One fabric is light and quiet and the other dark and dramatic. Drama won out, obviously.

Looking at the blocks in black and white helped me make the decision. I think the lighter fabric would have fizzled the rich and bold colours of the blocks. Go bold or go home !

Hopefully I can get this sewn together without too much drama of my own… lets leave all that to the fabric !

This is one of the little things I’ve been jiggering around doing instead of the cross blocks:

Oh yeah, and I want to welcome back to my sewing room; Olie the smart iron.

Olie made his appearance 2 years ago under the christmas tree. Up until early November he had been hard at work when he abruptly made a little fart sound and refused to heat and press again. That was all very disappointing because I know it is a very expensive iron and the warranty was only one year. In my opinion, when a customer pays that much for something the manufacturer should do enough designing to have it last longer than 22 months. The papers that came with him said to take him to a qualified person to fix it. I phoned several appliance repair places and the shop that knew the most about that iron said they weren’t able to get parts. Contacting the company, they made me an offer that I would ship the iron back to them and include $69.00 USD and they would send me a replacement iron with a full year warranty. I really gave that some thought because that is the equivalent of $100 CDN which makes the total investment of well over $300…   for an IRON !!! They agreed to pay shipping both ways – international shipping out of Canada is absolutely nuts. So, 7 weeks later here he is – I had actually given up hope of ever seeing him again the wait was so long. The reason why I was drawn to this iron was because it has a 30 minute shut off feature as opposed to the 8 minute one that all the other irons have. Oh yeah, and the “smart” lift feature – I thought that would be easier on my aching wrists and shoulders. Anyways, I’m happy to have it back but if it goes phfft after the 1 year warranty is up, that’s it, I’m going to kick him to the curb and find a new love !

If anyone else reading this has one of these irons that has lasted longer than 22 months, could you please let me know how old yours is in the comment section up at the top by the date ?

Thanks so much.

linking up with Lee for WIP Wednesday.