Roll the Dice again

It was time to roll the dice again on Monday – it’s always exciting to see what number comes up each time.  This week it was number one, working on my neutral strings blocks.  I’ve already made two quilts from these blocks already, and there are enough left over to make a cot quilt out of the remainder. I‘m planning on using a half yard piece of pink and gold patterned fabric with these blocks.  Let’s see what I come up with during the week.

The last of my neutral string blocks

I did have a problem with the sewing machine yesterday.  Goodness knows what was wrong, but the machine was making a loud humming noise, that can’t be right, surely.  So I switched it off and on, no, that didn’t work.  I was worried that the machine would go “poof” and blow up under my hands!   In the end I left a message on Barry’s phone, he is the very helpful and friendly  sewing machine mechanic who recently did a service on my machine.   As it turned out, Barry was on holiday at Mt Cook,  in the South Island.  He suggested I check that the bobbin winder had not been moved to the “on position”.  Sure enough, that was the answer, my machine won’t blow up in my face after all.  I really appreciate his helpful advice, guess this problem must have happened to his clients before.