A Trip to Hobby Lobby and a Change to the Embroider-Along Pattern

[Music] hey everybody hi it's Becky from power tools with thread how you guys doing man it's hot oh my word high 90s high humidity hey it's July in South Texas around here so I just come from the hairdresser she just took like half an inch off I lightened it this weekend and she kind of woke good so you colored your hair I know that look so by the end of the session she she told me to go get a toner and what kind of get and put it on for 10 minutes and yo I'm too cheap to go to a hairdresser to color my hair I'm well I say that I'm too cheap you know much money that gets into my fabric money you know I'm not I'll buy a box of Loreal all day long and it gets you know I mean the underside is darker it's an all-over color but L'Oreal nine-and-a-half Envy Nancy what is it natural blonde yeah nice thing that in a while but um you know I just it seems like I go to the hairdresser I've been twice to have my hair colored and you know it looks really really good at first of course you spend anywhere back in the day from 70 and now it's over $100 and it looks great for a couple weeks and then you got to go back and I'm naturally kind of a auburn red brown me yeah me and the platypus it wouldn't work meant to be hey hobby lobby's having a sale they have the of course hobby lobby's always have to sale but there McCall's patterns are like dollar ninety-nine so I went over there today at lunch because I was having a morning like a you would not believe at work I told y'all I work in cyber security for the US Air Force right I got a notice if you want to get a job for the government you have to go to this website called USAJOBS and then you can build a resume on there and put all your papers and all you know your loved me stuff on there and tell everybody how wonderful you are and apply for jobs well this yo-yo put information in his resume he should not have put there which created this firestorm of activity to purge it from everywhere it's ever been and oh good lord of mighty God it was just it was crazy I had to notify 34 people what to do to get rid of this thing and to let me know when they're done and if they don't do it we're gonna wipe and reload their systems which puts the fear of God into everybody cuz nobody wants to lose all their stuff and oh yeah it's something else I tell you okay so went on Bobby and I picked up em7 3 to 2 I'm thinking that if I make this this is McCall 7 3 to 2 I'm thinking that if I make this top I can look as good as she does don't you think so here's the language doesn't have a bus start it does not it's supposed to be loose-fitting and it called for Ash alley and so you know viv mom was talking about those um spring fabrics on clearance I got this really cute I'm it's not red white and blue it is not red white and blue it is blue white and coral really it's not red there's much more orange in here I don't know if you can pick that up on the camera very drapey I think it'll make it real pretty there was a flaw in the fabric it was on clearance for $2 a yard so I got this for 4 bucks so not bad and I got a little extra so that I can get around the flaw and match the stripes on the sides I think that would be cute don't you and then um oh I need to make myself a note right here I don't want to I want to talk to you about this as well okay I've picked up McCall seven nine five nine which is a cute little blouse that's got a little not a v-neck but it has a little almost like a tunic cut right there and you can see it here it I'm gonna get it closed it has a little gathers on these panels I like that I think that's adorable again no bus start and for that I picked up this really nice it's kind of if it's not a chambray although it does have texture to it it's I don't know what it is to be honest with you but it's a really soft pink peach pink and it's got a pretty white stripe through it I think that'll look lovely in that top can you see that with the little gathers right there won't that be pretty I think that would be nice I might do that it doesn't say it's easy we'll give it a shot and then I also picked up these other ones I picked up McCall 17 390 I love the way they did it almost like a color blocking with the with that stripe there that's pretty cool I don't know if I have something to work with it already or if I need to order something I don't know I picked up my calls seven eight nine nine this is just a really loose Raglan sleeve blouse I got loose guys cuz it is so hot down here so hot you know I'm not making those long sleeves there's no way that's my call seven eight nine nine I don't think these are the new thing I got this skirt because this is McCall 79 62 so for fun I got this because I need more skirts and this takes a cotton-blend gingham linen lightweight denim I have probably all of those fabrics so I'm gonna give this one a shot and then I don't know if you've ever seen the video where I am wearing one of the costumes I can't remember which one it was it's a simplicity costume for my daughters of the american revolution group we dressed in 1770s period costumes i have wanted one of these our state conferences in march and it's cold literally probably January February March in Texas it's cold but this is McCall 786 I want to make this Cape now I have to remake that costume because I lost 45 pounds starting last August until January and McCall 786 I want to make a cake my friend Linda who's in the DAR group with me she made a cake for her and hurt another lady oh it's fabulous so now I got to find some kind of fabric to make that out of to go with that dress so that would be nice I also I didn't have a pattern in mine I picked up this it's got like roses with little arrows I don't know if they're Rosie's but they're probably not roses I don't know my flowers you guys I know you want it so that's about it there's little feathers this was not on clearance so I could use my 40% coupon on it so that was nice and I'm just gonna make a sleek shirt out of it I gotta wash it it smells like chemicals I gotta wash all this stuff anyway hey um so in a video or two ago I'm working on that quote for my boss and I told y'all I was short on the sand it's CONUS sand is the the background fabric that I'm using so I took my scraps with me to Hobby Lobby because they sell kind of fabrics there okay Robert Kaufman coming up fabrics just exactly what that panel is all about okay so it took it over there and they had sand and not only is it not the same color and I get dialogs are different I get it but it feels different it feels that stuff I got I got that from Missouri star quilt company I'm pointing because the quilts take it whoops whoops I'm dropping things everywhere so this is this is the quilt okay I'm short 320 by two and a half inch strips and of course this fabric is so soft and it's so quality you know but I ran out and so I said well I'll just I know they carry Kona fabric solids at Hobby Lobby so I went over there and got it it's rough and it's stiff and I'm light so I ordered another yard from that quarter shop quality quilting Cotton's guys and I pull it out and it's soft what's up with that the distributor I I'll be honest with you I can't tell you if they cost the same I mean that's always different between the vendors this is something this is like that from that corner shop so I'm a bit of a fabric nerd so I'd be very interested to know why the solids the Kona solids that they carry at Hobby Lobby are not the same as the Kona solids that go to the fabrics that are quote stores inquiring minds want to know um okay y'all on the the embroider alone there were errors in the pattern so I made some little edits on page one if you went to the amélie Scott website to go download those files the embroidery files she has it on that page that there were errors in the pattern okay so last night I made these little notes and I put them back on my blog powertools with thread comm so if you have an O one that you downloaded before yesterday throw it away or at least throw away page one okay there's a new page one and you want to get all of this right you know that happens guys I'm sorry it well I am sorry I'm just I and I hadn't cut my stuff yet because I wanted to have the video the last that I did where I was talking about getting to know your machine so also one of you had commented a couple of times that you just could not download the zip files that have that have from my website you can't download those from my website the only thing you can download from my website are the instructions ok my website hosting provider WordPress does not allow me to import a zip file for you guys to be able to download from me but I kind of rearrange things on the post a little bit so number one it says here's the instructions and there's a big black download button and get that and get yourself page 1 or 4 if you don't have it yet and then - there's a number - and it says download site link you click on that link and it will take you to the Amelie Scott website and then she has the link on her website where you can click on it and download the file from the website or you can click on it and it will take you to Dropbox and you can go get the files there if you have a Dropbox account okay so gets out a try and see if that doesn't help you out a little bit for those of you that have had trouble with that hey I got ELISA the unicorn pattern on a whim I love Elizabeth Hartman patterns so she's got a new pattern out called Safari and it has the most adorable Safari animals on there elephants and gazelles and lions and just the cutest cutest things $25 just for the pattern you guys for a quilt man that's steep quote too expensive I love it um so anyway I think this is just precious Lisa the Unicorn I'm gonna make a pillow out of that for my granddaughter I think she will just love that she's gonna be six on Christmas what five and a half six year old doesn't love a unicorn pillow um I got my next block of the month sampler from the connecting threads mercantil block of the month's sampler quilt part three that came in these are the box part two is where I found the air node in the pattern and I've only got one block of that done I need to get with it but you guys summer is busy Oh summers busy and I kind of took a week off from that whole thing because it was manniversary and we went to the coast in it you know um I got some new labels in for my clothes and my things I make let me pull them out I get these from the Dutch label shop oh I think I spent 20 bucks I love these they're very good quality it says Becky Thompson power tools with threads that's my label can you see it I really like these I had labels before and when I rearranged my sewing room I lost them they still haven't surfaced they will surface but they haven't surfaced yet so and what else how was it the Walmart down in Port Lavaca and I bought some cricut glitter iron-on I got the white to make you know quilting t-shirts and then this they had a whole bunch of it down there the one that I go to buy my work it doesn't have a lot of these this one has purple blue and green in it can you see the purple blue and green get that way you can see it this is pretty stuff and this is great to just take um you know plain old t-shirts put a quick block on it or can't quit saying or something like that's what I do a lot of my stuff Oh some of you have mentioned about like this shirt quilting is my therapy this is from Angela Walters shop she's an instructor on craftsy.com thing so um she has a couple of them it's quilting is my therapy it's midnight somewhere with the wineglass cuz she always has wine on a little bowl of popcorn when she quilts and oh and finished is better than perfect so I loved all those shirts so I picked them up off her site they're super super soft cotton just love these things very very comfortable so what else I think that's about it oh that I wanted to talk to you guys about I got a hoop matt from designs and machine embroidery that's this blue thing right here I'm gonna do a video on just on that to talk about it I haven't hooked anything on it but I put my hoop on it and it stinks and I love it so I think this is gonna be a really really cool little tool in my arsenal for my machine embroidery and I think that's about it guys so I will let y'all go have a very good rest of your evening I promise this week we will do part two of the embroider along I just needed to tell you about the change on page one and give you guys an opportunity to print that out and get ready okay cuz we're gonna stitch next time all right hey thank you to all my new subscribers you guys are just awesome and thank you for all of your sweet sweet comments I love I read every one of them and you guys that email me I always try to email you back and maybe not right away this girl's still working thank you we'll talk to you later bye

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Length: 17min 49sec (1069 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 09 2019