Look, ma, I finally got on the sewing machine again!
I just completed Month 5 of whatever-year-it-was Cotton Cuts Puzzle Mystery Quilt that I’m doing in the Stratford colorway.
It took me awhile to get the 5a part done—if you’ve been following along at home, that’s the one that I had to sew and re-sew not once, not twice, but apparently three times. When I unsewed it on Saturday and then sewed it back together correctly on Monday morning, I saw tell-tale signs of another ripped out seam along the third side of that same dang red triangle. How did I manage to get it wrong so many times? And I don’t even remember now getting it wrong the first time!
I just have too many very smart things going on in my head. It makes me do stupid things in quilting. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I’m mostly proud of myself for actually getting into my sewing room today. I’d had the intention ever since I went to bed last night. “Tomorrow I’ll sew. I’ll have time after work.” Well, yes I did. But then my husband took another couple of steps backwards in his recovery, again, and then my son came down with something—stomach, not sure about anything else. So I was in a bit of a funk, and trying to figure out if I should quarantine myself, and trying to decide what to tell my daughter about coming home this weekend…and I just wanted to curl up in front of the TV with something big and chocolate. But instead, I made myself a good dinner, cleaned up the kitchen, got critical stuff out of the bedroom so I could bunk in my daughter’s room again tonight just so my husband can get a good night’s sleep without worrying about keeping me up, and at 8:45p finally made it into my sewing room. Normally I don’t start sewing that late but I knew I only had eight straight seams left to sew before I could call month 5 finished, so I got it done and dusted before 9p.
Hallelujah. And I do feel better having kept my commitment to myself to sew today.
And tomorrow’s post will have a little update about a self-indulgent very VERY early birthday gift I’m giving myself…