It’s Friday, and it’s a comp day off that I’ve been hanging onto by the skin of my teeth. Oh, so many meetings could’ve gotten scheduled today and, in fact, I briefly did schedule one that’s time sensitive and then decided I really needed to be true to my decision to take today off, so I emailed the person and rescheduled for Monday. That’s soon enough.
I’m writing the first part of this blog first thing in the morning as I’m waiting for a plumber to show up to replace our kitchen faucet. For a variety of reasons I won’t go into here, we can’t do it ourselves, much as that irked my husband to no end. In any case, while he’s here I’m keeping the dogs in my home office/sewing room with me so they’re not all up in his grill as he’s on his back under our sink. Auggie, in particular, would find that endlessly fascinating.
So my first #CDSI task is reinstalling a whole bunch of download add-ons I had in my Electric Quilt program up until I reformatted my computer about two years ago. Fortunately EQ keeps everything you’ve ever bought online so you can just download it again. While I was at it, I took advantage of a sale they’re having (15 more hours as of this writing!) on Stash Fabric collections and bought all four 2019 collections. With the sale, I essentially got all four for the price of 2 3/4. And then I played with EQ for a bit until the plumber was done. Opening one of Kimberly Einmo designs and then messing around with randomizing the color and mapping it to fabrics from Stash? Oh, what fun! That entertained me for quite some time.
A couple hours later: Paid the plumber, ate breakfast, did a little work and a little reading, ate lunch with my son (he’s living at home with us again for a bit while he’s in transition), and practiced my Spanish. I’m using the Rosetta Stone app. We have a lot of Spanish-speaking churches in our denomination so I wouldn’t mind being able to at least sound like I’m making an attempt, even if I never get fluent. I’m not sure I have the patience or time at this point to shoot for fluency. Meanwhile, ella tiene una bicicleta roja. (I’m sure that will come up in conversation frequently.) Now—off to sew!
Success! I spent a couple of hours sewing—woot! I decided to work on blocks from the 2018 Cotton Cuts BOTM. I only ever got the first month done, and month 2 started. Today I finished month 2 and month 3. Here’s the silver lining of being WAY behind on a BOTM—I don’t have to worry about spoilers!
I’m trying not to have misgivings about the random triangles that were left over. Nothing is missing from either set of blocks so I’m just going to pretend they were a door prize for opening the envelope.
#CDSI complete! Off now to have dinner with a couple of my sisters.
Boy, it was nice to be playing with fabric again.