Was my chair in front of my sit-down ironing board - with seam ripper in hand -
And a good portion of the day was spent getting those awful chicken/rooster potholders "de-constructed" -
I thought that sounded better and WAAAY more fun than "un-sewing" the dang things would have been - ;))
I sorted them out and put them in a baggie with their matching fabrics. I probably could use them as pre-cut 2" squares and strips - but most of them are missing a thread or two (or three or four) - that got lost in the "de-construction" process - so - for now - they have joined the pile of bits and pieces for "crumb" blocks - like that pile is EVER going to go down - LOL - ;))
Anyway - tomorrow I think I'll take another look at my Christmas blocks - I'm thinking now that I may not want to FMQ the SAME design in each of the sections - maybe it would be more FUN to switch it up a bit - and goodness knows - I could use practice with a LOT more than just one design - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
Is - by definition - personal - and not necessarily suited to everyone - ;))
But I think that I am not alone in that I definitely prefer -
Spending the Entire Day Quilting -
To messing with trying to learn a new computer program - ;))
Over the past couple of days I wasted SO much time - one thing led to another - and the whole dang thing is SO convoluted and unnecessarily complicated -
BUT you have to do it THEIR way or the program won't track everything correctly.
I gave up before I even really got started - when I got to the part where QB needed Internet Explorer enabled in order to work properly. My default browser is Firefox - and I don't know how to - nor do I WANT to - change it any time soon - just because QB needs it. Why is it that every time you change one thing (add a new program) you wind up having to change something else? It never seems to end - and I don't want to play with it any more. And I don't even want to think about setting up PayPal and then someday having to "upgrade" to Windows 10 - which some people don't seem to like even though it has been out for a while now -
I want to take all of my toys and go home -
Oh, wait - I AM home - nevermind - ;))
I had planned to JUST DO IT - then give it to my accountant to fix later - that's why I pay him - LOL - but - in the end - I decided to keep doing my "books" manually.
I know how - that's how I learned to do it way back in the dark ages before computers - when we did "double-entry bookkeeping" - using columnar pads and pencils. You had to know what you were doing because you couldn't just "insert" a line or a column in the middle of a schedule (now called a spreadsheet) - ;))
It may be VERY old-fashioned - but it still works -
And it's actually easier - and faster - for me to make my own schedules to keep track of stuff.
EDIT UPDATE - Just to clarify -
I learned how to do schedules on columnar pads - but now I use the computer to make my spreadsheets - I just don't do the QB version of tracking the transactions.
If and when the volume of paperwork becomes overwhelming -
I may change my mind -
But for now -
I prefer to do my "books" manually -
And I prefer to go back to my Free-Motion Quilting projects -
And my "un-sewing" of those awful chicken/rooster pothholder blocks -
You know it was bad when I prefer "un-sewing" something -
To what I WAS doing - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
