Huh?

 

A giant Amazon truck came down my driveway on Friday to bring me this. It's my Missouri Star order of Kaffe Fassett material to back the Crazy Quilt and a charm pack to start another. Since when does Amazon deliver packages for other sites? I'm trying to break my Amazon habit for many reasons and this did NOT make me happy. Their trucks tear up my yard and their delivery people toss my stuff everywhere but where I can find it. 

I'm over it.

I suppose I should just be happy the fabric got here because I got to spend yesterday wrestling with the darn stuff. 

It didn't go down without a fight. It took me four long hours. As beautiful as that Kaffe Fassett fabric is, it has that new fangled texture that doesn't hold its shape very well. It's got beautiful drape and is light as feather but it was a bear to keep straight as I went along. It's going to take a lot of work to keep it from puckering on the back. I sure miss that old quilting calico that was so stiff it could stand up by itself. I did read that you really should starch your backing but I have no idea how to go about that. I don't even know what starch is. 

Before I got started on that quilting misadventure I threw down a big towel and used the newly cleared table to give Pup that much needed haircut. 

Much better. We could have gone shorter but she was at the point of hysterics so we stopped here. We'll finish the job another day and get those toenails while we're at it.