Stinky Cheese & What I Have Learned

Which incidentally is for Tami in the Scraptastic Bee.  She sent the green spiderweb fabric(which has glow in the dark eyes…and did you know that when you iron glow in the dark fabric it glows?…imagine my surprise as I was ironing away and the fabric started glowing…very interesting) and asked for 12.5″ Halloween blocks of any design.  There were some cute embroidery patterns in my latest issue of American Patchwork and Quilting that I wanted to use so I decided to use the pattern The Wishing Ring 2.  It had the perfect sized square in the center to embroider within.  So I finished the block and was ready to embroider.  Now, you may be wondering when we are getting to the stinky cheese part….well, that part is right now.  As I went to my little embroidery box(it’s a little fishing lure box I think) & opened the lid…I noticed quite an interesting smell…quite rank really.  Smelled a bit like someone dumped some milk in there and closed the lid for a few weeks…quite yucky.  Everything looked ok but obviously, something was amiss.  I started polking around a bit, and there, way down in the corner underneath some embroidery floss were two small cubes of very green cheese.  Can you imagine?!?  Let me tell you embroidery floss and cheese do not mix…at least not after more than a couple days.  I can only think that one of my two girlies–probably that silly littlest one…decided she had found the perfect spot for the two pieces of cheese she didn’t want to eat right then and wanted to save for later.

Now, don’t worry Tami—the black embroidery floss was on the other side of the box and not stinky at all–trust me, I gave it a good sniff… =) 

So, #1 lesson learned…cheese belongs in the fridge.  Lesson #2…did you all notice that the block up there has inset seams?  Yay me!  You may also have noticed that my Savvy seasons block had mitred corners as well.  My mom taught me how to do them just two weeks ago–I had always been a bit intimidated by mitred corners and preferred not to make them.  But, no problem! =)  I think this will be a helpful skill to have under my belt.

So, remember cheese + pasta=good, cheese + embroidery floss=bad. =)