Wednesday, February 10, 2021

I’m quilting today and will be for the next several days.

And in case you can’t see out the window … yes, that’s snow!

Monday, February 8, 2021

I’m struggling (just a little) to get off my regular schedule and into non-schedule where I finish a project before moving on to something else.

Today, when I was trying to finish a small project, I wanted very badly to set it aside and do something else. I was using my quilting machine and trying to use my rulers. I know the rulers don’t work well with a lot of seams but I was using the ruler that was a straight-edge so I thought it might be possible. But it wasn’t and I had to rip it all out.

Then I noticed that my machine was skipping stitches. I thought I could live with the skips but when I started a second round of quilting and the measurements for lines weren’t working out well I ripped everything out again. I rethreaded the machine and that seemed to help with the problem.

When I quit for lunch I thought maybe I’d have better luck after a break. But that little voice in my head said right back to me, “It isn’t luck, it’s skill”. Regardless of whether or not it was luck or skill, I managed to get the quilting done.

The positive of this new non-schedule is that I quite enjoyed sitting in the sunshine this afternoon and stitching down the binding.

Now I’ll move on to prepping for tomorrow’s project. Stacia, Deloise and I will be working on a common project and I don’t even have my fabrics picked yet.

Sunday, February 7, 2021

I couldn’t believe the time when I woke up this morning. It was 8:30 and what woke me up was the sun shining in through the window. Not only is it unusual for me to sleep that late, but also unusual to have such bright sunshine in the morning (we don’t often see the sun until late morning or afternoon).

It was time for some cleaning in my sewing room so I got at that first thing. I folded and put away some fabric; I pressed (but didn’t trim) 25 sets of blocks for my scrappy quilt and then I vacuumed. I pressed the quilt I’m going to be working on next. It is my February UFO and since I’m working at something until I finish it I guess I’ll be at it for several days.

For the rest of the afternoon I finished Week 5 of my stitch-along, as well as finishing the first clue in my Neglected Floss series. I started adding the borders on that project as well.

I’ve earned some reading time before supper. My book is so good – much better than the Netflix series.

Saturday, February 6, 2021

After four days, my log cabin blocks are finished. I was so tired of them by the time I finished that it was just an exercise in perseverance to get them done. The good news is that I’m happy with them but I don’t know if doing one project at a time is going to work for me. Tomorrow will be a better test as I plan to catch up on some embroidery projects.

I ordered two new Kindle books this morning. We’ve been watching Firefly Lane on Netflix; I enjoyed the first season but I didn’t like wondering at the end of every episode what was going to happen to resolve the cliff hanger they left you with. I had the book on my To Read list so I checked the library but they didn’t have it. So I splurged and bought both Firefly Lane and the sequel, Fly Away.

I should take some time to clean up my room but I don’t think I can handle that just now. My back is sore from standing and doing all the cutting, trimming and pressing. I’ll start my new book and save the cleaning until tomorrow.