WOW I slept in and was an hour late for the Alzheimer's Touch Quilt kit making rally today. It's all the fault of some woman I didn't understand who buzzed my intercom for about 15 minutes around 3:00 am Saturday which really messed me up that whole day and then slept like a log that night. I promised to take my machine and help sew up some of the 15 finished tops and I did manage to assemble and quilt three (now they are only 36 inch squares but still time consuming as they are of all types of six inch square fabrics sewn together). I took the other 12 home with batting and backings for whenever I've some time to spare and hand in as I finish them. Yeah I know I'm crazy!!!
Then when I got home I just relaxed a bit then got my Stitching Only RR block etc together for mailing tomorrow along with a OOOPSIE forgotten birthday card for my younger sister (birthday tomorrow) and then finished off the white Sashiko stitching for the workshop I was in yesterday. I chatted with my girlfriend in Toronto for a long while then realized I had her granddaughter's gift to finish off so back into the sewing room to serge the square hooded bath towel and face clothes from the left over strip. That was fast and easy.
So I settled back and watch the end of Battle of the Blades (I taped it so will catch up maybe in November when I'm back home for a lengthy stay again! LOL! While watching TV I couldn't sit still - NAH - so I picked up the variegated thread and stitched in the Sashiko dragonfly. NOW that top is finished - just have to find time to assemble it into a wall hanging before the Nov. 22nd MPQ quilt meeting for show n tell.
NOW I'm going to put my feet up for a bit before calling it a day!
I just don't know where the time goes! I've been busy at work with our Department-wise reorganization learning website uploads and trying to continue my work until new job description/duties are decided upon. Naturally headaches are back and then last week was office cleaning to make room for two staff moving in so add to that lots of muscle aches. Needless to say my stitching and quilting has fallen by the wayside and in dire state for catch up!
Then to add insult to injury (so to speak) I have another co-worker retiring and a gift I'd like to make, I also signed up for a Sashiko Japanese embroidery class (something I've tried on my own and now need to drop bad habits learned), a trip off to Toronto to visit friends, a house/pet sitting stint and quilt retreat all back to back so to speak! I must be crazy!!! And in this mess I'm still trying to fix Tom's retirement gift with much worry and also another crazy patched round robin starting up at the same time.
BUT I've corrected the quilting on Tom's wall hanging just having a problem reattaching the mitred borders so waiting for the quilt retreat and my sister's much needed assistance to finish this baby off. I've just about finished the second retirement gift, finished off my "naked block" for the round robin and some tatted/beaded thank you gifts too - just need to serge the baby gift before Wednesday to take with me to Toronto and I think I'll pack my Sashiko as my handwork while out east to work on evenings etc.
Then mid-November I'm going out to my sister's in NW Ontario and assist them to move into Winnipeg for the winter months. That'll be a challenge for them but also a relief for them and their families that they'll be closer to all if help is needed. OK I think I'll make it one step at a time!
