So the nice thing about having a clean sewing room is that I can actually sew for a few minutes when I get them. Today I did my usual morning Saturday things but by the time I got home from the grocery store and had lunch, I was ready for a nap. No idea why—I feel like I’d slept fine last night and I didn’t overly tax myself this morning. However, since I didn’t have any pressing reason not to take a nap and since tomorrow will be a full work day again (visiting a church in the morning and doing a Q&A with them during adult ed time, then attending a church dinner with a different church tomorrow night), I succumbed. I didn’t nap for too long but it was somewhat helpful.
However, it did cut into my planned sewing time.
That being said, after doing the easy Tetris puzzle work of the die-cut blocks of the month yesterday, I felt ready to tackle something very, very complicated: a baby quilt that’s all big squares and rectangles, LOL. The baby is due next weekend, if she’s on time—which her mother is anxiously hoping she will be at this point. I’m doubting I’ll get this done by the time the little one comes but it’s a quick-to-piece pattern so it shouldn’t take all that long.
I got about half the cutting done today. Isn’t the sloth on the left just adorbs? That’s the fabric that grabbed me—I’m using it as the backing too. I just went with the rest of the prints from the line and added in a couple of tone-on-tones for the sashing. No real thought went into this. In fact, I think I’m even using the pattern that was hanging as a store sample above the line, although I’ll give myself a little bit of credit as the sample was done in other fabrics. See? I can think for myself, at least a little bit. Still, it’ll be stinking cute and I don’t feel the need to have a ton of pride in the “Lookie what I can do” department when it’s done.
After all, as I said a couple of posts ago, my main goal is to just have fun these days. And this is fun, mostly because I keep grinning at the ridiculously cute fabric.
Okay, time to figure out what I’m making for dinner—probably one of my “open the package and toss it in the oven to cook” pre-fab dinners from Wegmans—I’m still a little sleepy. Besides, that way I can get to the sit-with-a-novel-and-tea-while-it-cooks part of dinner preparation a little faster.
Not sure what my schedule is this week but I’m going to have to grab some time off at some point as I’m booked all next weekend. So if all goes well, stay tuned for Random Sewing Reports in the middle of the week!