This week, I'm thinking...
- How absolutely, fantastically, overwhelmingly good it is to see sun again.
- That a little sun makes a huge difference to my overall mood.
- That even after three days of 40s (and dabbling toes briefly in the 50s) I can still only see a little patch of green on our front slope.
- How it's still good weather for driving around with the sunroof and windows open.
- How sore my fingertips are from embroidery.
- That I'm going to have to keep practicing that darn rosette chain stitch.
- Waterloo.
- Dang, that one's tricky.
- That my favorite stitch so far has been the fly stitch.
- How fun it is to do the same stitch in different lengths, widths, tensions, and with different threads, to see how completely different it can look.
- Because that means I can use my favorite stitch a few different times and most people wouldn't even notice it's the same stitch.
- That I've once again put a quilt in a show--my second time ever.
- How I noticed something I should've fixed even as I was putting the quilt into a bag for drop-off at the quilt shop hosting the show.
- That hopefully it'll be hung a bit above eye level.
- So no one can look too closely.
- But it's not too noticeable, really.
- And is just due to using old fusible.
- So that makes it the fusible's fault and not mine, right?
- That I'm looking forward to my day off on Friday and will be going to my guild's sew days, even if just for a few hours.
- How I need to figure out tonight how many strips and squares a certain honkin' big quilt will take so I can cut them while surrounded by buddies to keep me from thinking about how mind-numblingly boring all that cutting is.
- But what an opportunity to put Debbie Caffrey techniques into practice.
- That, other than DD coming home for spring break, I have nothing scheduled for this weekend and that feels great!
- Other than an eye appointment
- And they'll dilate my pupils
- So I won't be able to see really well for awhile
- And going to the quilt show to see my and my friends' quilts hanging will be poorly timed if I'm still wearing sunglasses.
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