AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!! WARNING!! WARNING!!

DO NOT RUN WASHING MACHINES BEFORE YOUR FIRST CUP OF COFFEE!!

I did a STOOPID thing this morning, and I will be working to fix it for about 2 days. Just thought I'd let you know...

I have spent this week doing some intermediate quilting on NOISE, to stabilize it enough to cut out the center. Yesterday, I decided it was stable enough to do the work. So I did all the work to the center yesterday (including put a piece of organza over the now "empty" body... but I left the head empty. ...

Anyway, while doing so some charcoal marks got on the top. (I know.. use soap slivers... but... Oh, never mind!!) Marks I didn't like looking at. And I wasnt' completely sure that they would go away. So this morning, fresh out of my warm, quilt-bedecked bed, I put the incomplete top in the washing machine on gentle. What can I say?? I hadn't had my morning coffee yet.

The quilt that came out is not a pretty sight. (WHAT WAS I THINKING??) Some of the fused seams tore at the batting, the organza didn't survive in tact. Some of the fused strips came undone. I can fix it, but it won't be fun. And no... I might be able to speak this insanity, but I will not photograph it (or atleast I won't publish that photo).

I'll spend 2 days recovering this piece.

sigh...