Heavy Gray Air
The forecast has been for less than good as to what is coming towards us during the evening hours. When I awoke and peeked out from the flannels I closed my eyes. When I did get up it was 9:15.
I didn’t seem to have missed anything by sleeping in. The entire neighborhood was quiet . . . not much traffic and the evergreen outside my bedroom window was still. Dennis was coming in from the patio porch and he was heading for a nap in the recliner. I set about doing the first floor ditties.
Once the local effort of the first floor of our home is done . . . I am free to go! I toddled right down into the sewing studio. Today was the day to finish up the affirmation blocks that I will use later on for a quilt. The sixteen embroidered blocks will be set into a quilt top for Megan’s college quilt. I am not rushing into that time, as it is coming too fast. 2022 graduation will be here before I know it and before I like it. As long as I had the bee in my bonnet there was no reason to not get with it. It will take a few sheets of graph paper to figure how the rest of the story in the quilt top goes.
With those 16 blocks tucked into a folder it gave way to putting all the spools of thread back in numerical order. Dust bunnies were taken out of the bobbin area of the sewing machine as well as giving the machine a grease and lube job. The flash drive that holds all of the 27 designs (I only chose 16) as well as the paper folder with instruction of thread colors is going back onto the shelf with the rest of the goodies that can be chosen for embroidery. The sixteen blocks were a total of 634,000 stitches. The quilt for Kersten’s Pokémon remains the high stitch number. Taking each step the way it presents itself makes for a tidy sewing studio. Nothing feels better than starting a project when items can be pulled from their storage for a good clean start.
I do not have to look very hard for that new start. The vintage Santa quilt has been sandwiched and will be the next item under the needle. Tomorrow, deciding how it will be quilted will take some time. Thread color is a question. There is just as much red as there is green. I have a spool of Sulky invisible thread. I am kicking that idea around for the top and using green on the back as that is totally green. I may need to do a bit of experimenting on scraps to see how the sulky thread does. Always something to learn. That is why quilting never ever gets old. The Santa quilt will be finished before I entertain anything else. There is a lot of time in the quilting and then the binding. I was determined to do this quilt from A to Z and not take it to Old Alley for finishing. Megan’s embroidery was a good break from the Santa quilt and finishing up the quilt is a good break from the embroidery. Two to juggle is as far as I will go for unfinished projects, aka: UFOs . . . unfinished objects. I have heard from others that too many UFOs can be paralyzing.
We are having leftovers of a variety for supper. Time to clean out the refrig. Neither Dennis nor I waste much, regardless of what it may be.
May your weekend be more enjoyable than the gray skies. May the weekend also be safe if the bad weather descends.