Back away from the iron!

I KNOW what you're thinking......"ha, dufus Amy forgot the iron on her ironing board!"

But.....NO, I didn't leave the iron laying on my ironing board! Honest engine!

Can you see the smoke? I was quilting away, when I hear......"Tsssssssssssss"
When I looked over to the iron, I see a small waver of smoke rising and I thought..."Oh my. I guess a lady bug got too close to the iron."

Then.....a nasty-NASTY smell of burning/burnt/smoldering electrical wires hit the air.....and the iron was taking its last few breaths of life.

When I went over to check things out, I set the iron on the ironing board for a NANO-second, and that top pic was the result. I couldn't BUH-LIEVE it! I can't fathom how hot the iron must have been to have created that mark within a NANO-second!!!!!

The good news:
I had already pressed the top and bottom of the Quilts 4 Kids project that arrived in my mail today from my MIL, so I was able to quilt the entire top.
She asked me to quilt it for her. So, I have my FIRST customer quilt {{but I guess it doesn't count if it's for my MIL and I'm not getting paid for it}} ;0)

The bad news: I couldn't completely finish it because I couldn't press the binding. Therefore, tomorrow directly after school, I'm off to the store to buy a new iron.


My MIL sent another small quilt that she is gifting to her doctor, so I laid it out, decided what pantograph design to use and chose some thread. And that's all I was able to accomplish tonight without an iron :0(
{{yeah, I COULD have pieced some parts of Hannah's Rotation, but I'm saving that for Friday night and Saturday.}}

And again, I have some lovely 'surprises' on the camera's card courtesy of Candace...... LOL.....enjoy the show :0)









Happy Wednesday!