fingers for Friday around here....

After "wordless Wednesday"...it easily became another wordless day... or maybe we could start something like "thoughtless Thursday".... and just put up a picture. Now, here it is already "frantic Friday" ...hahhaha... or for those lucky so and so's with cats... Furry Friday.....

Doesn't seem like I have much to show for my week. Another sped by... at warp speed, yet again. However, I have been putzing on my latest doll..... don't want to show much of her yet.....
As usual for me, when I am designing one... it is a lot of hit and miss with sizing of appendages ..... this is about the fourth set of hands. Surprisingly they have all just looked too tiny against the patterned fabric I'm using for her dress, even though I have done bodies and hands about the same size ratio as this in the past and I thought at that time they looked alright... ... strange....

Sometimes when I am stitching around the tiny fingers, the pattern paper lifts off a bit... very annoying... because then it means I have to hold it down... hopefully in the correct place and try to stitch around loose fingers. Yesterday I tried this trick instead. Whipped out my trusty mini iron, plugged it in.. put a piece of fabric under the one I was stitching on...and ironed the sticky paper backing into position on my fabric again .... right there on the sewing machine. Hah! getting smarter in my old age... that made things much easier.




















I don't use that little iron for much...but, when I do need it... boy, it comes in handy.

One caution::::: don't grab it by anything but the nice cool handle. That lovely shiny rod part?...is damnably hot!!