Sunday, October 10, 2021

It’s been a long time since we celebrated Thanksgiving on Monday rather than Sunday but that’s what we are doing this year. Pat has very few and very short breaks in his workshop; he barely has time to eat let alone appreciate a turkey dinner.

I started my quilting last night and finished it up just now. It was a fairly small quilt and a very simple quilting design so I shouldn’t be surprised that it is done but I’m always thrilled when something is a quick finish. I have another quilt lined up for quilting. I’ll get it done and then do the binding for both quilts at the same time.

I may have stopped downloading quilt patterns just because I like them because I know there is no chance they will ever get done. I wish I could say the same about cross stitch projects. I signed up for another stitch-along. I’m keeping up to date so well with my weekly Peppermint Purple that I’ve started a daily stitch-along. I’m already ten days behind but, except for the first day, each day is stitched within a 15×15 grid and a lot of it is blank space so I should be able to keep up. I’d been looking at the progress online and couldn’t resist any longer. I have the fabric and threads kitted up and I can’t wait to get started.

I feel like I should finish outlining my quilt block cross stitch squares before starting something new so I’m off to get that done now – there aren’t many left. I have all evening (while Pat is busy with his workshop) so I may get a start on the new stitchery and/or finish my book.