I found some extra wide backing fabric for my mystery quilt.  Quilt is 50" square, fabric 108" - perfect.  One metre, cut in half, two pieces 54" wide joined together, a good 2" to play with each side and a decent bit of spare fabric for something else.
When I sandwiched the quilt I found that it must have been a bit of a fantasy 108" because I only had about 3/4" each side.  I wasn't too bothered as I wasn't intending doing a lot of squiggly, dense quilting.
It's all going swimmingly, just one side left to quilt when I noticed the information strip along the selvedge - except that it's not on the selvedge!  It's a *****ing great 1/2" wide, 15" long white strip (on dark fabric naturally) that extends 1 1/4" into the body of the fabric.  Inevitably, that is the edge that the top drifted towards during the sandwiching process.  Is it going to be covered by the binding?  Of course it *****ing well isn't.
I was going to cut a strip off and sew on a new bit but that required taking out part of some of the quilting lines - I wouldn't have been happy with it anyway.  So, I've finished the quilting and now have to come up with a creative way of dealing with it.  I think I'll let it simmer for a couple of hours.

I can see the first picture but not the second Iminei.

Sewingj, I don't know if any of this is of use to you. It's a jeans fitting guide but does have an adjustment for the tummy area.

Yay!  Here is my 12th BOM.
I really don't have many bright fabrics - this fabric says char lady more than African queen and I think the pattern on the main body is too dominant.  It was a fabric I had in a pack of fat quarters and I used all the rest.  I really couldn't think of anything I'd want to use this one for.

Thank you so much Iminei for doing the BOMS.  I resolved that I would only use fabrics I already had (and I only have leftovers - no stash).  It has been a really good exercise in choosing colours and there are some blocks that I will probably use again.  I like the arrowhead block and the trade winds one particularly.  It has been really enjoyable doing these along with other people and seeing their choices.

Think of it this way - there is actually only one knitting stitch same as you get if you make a chain with a piece of yarn and your finger. (purl is just plain done from the back)
All knitting, even complicated looking arans and lace, is just doing things with that one stitch.

I hate Pinterest with a vengeance  but do have stuff saved on there that I can browse through for inspiration.  I also have bookmarked pages in various folders.  Mostly though it's good old pencil and paper.  I have an A4 book which gets all sorts (all sewing) stuff scribbled in it e.g.  pattern numbers that I might buy, notes on alterations when I make something, doodles for quilt layouts, all my measurements listed inside the front cover and amounts of fabric needed for various types of garments.  It's chaotic but I can find what I'm looking for eventually and, while looking, come across other things I had forgotten about.

I'm sure they weren't a fluke Iminei and you know there are plenty of people on here to guide you just as you do with novice quilters.  If someone can recommend a tried and tested pattern and you are using woven cotton you shouldn't have the issues (draping, knit fabric ...) that have knocked your confidence recently.

Circular needles and double pointed needles (dpns) are for knitting in the round e.g. socks.  Also often used for toys.  Circular needles can have fixed length cables joining the 2 ends or as you may have recently seen Jessie and me discussing, you can now get sets of interchangeable needles with all different sized needles that screw onto cables of different lengths - very versatile.  So that you don't have to have the precise length of cable for a job there is a technique called 'magic loop' which means you can knit small tubes on a long cable but I think that one is for another day if you want to keep your sanity.
When you did your teddy you probably should have got shorter needles to make it easier - they would probably have needed to be dpns as standard needles are usually long.
For your initial knit stick with ordinary needles but if you are having to buy some think about what material you want.  Bamboo and wood are really nice to use and I also have some car on fibre ones with metal tips that I used for lace knitting.  My favourites are Knit Pro Symphonie which are beautiful smooth beechwood.