Progress

Fifty minutes of hand stitching last week and zero this week, so my total for the month so far—there are still a couple days left!—is about 12.25 hours. Guess I’m not the best participant in Bonnie Hunter's hand-stitching challenge for National Sewing month—but at least I DID participate. And I am late in posting my progress, but I AM posting.

Okay--I fell off the wagon for hand stitching, but I have been sewing. And cutting. And folding. My fabric has not been neglected.

I worked on my ongoing project of organizing my fabric stash. In my old condo I had a room dedicated to craft crap where fabric piles grew, teetered, got moved and re-piled, and I could just shut the door and leave things as they were. Although I also have a dedicated room here in our new home, I don’t want to close the door. The room  has a nice, big window, and the room is at the end of the hall; if I close the door, the hallway will be pretty dark.

So I have been washing, folding, and organizing fabric. I’ve accomplished a good bit in the last couple weeks. I love being able to see what I’ve really got, and that will make planning quilts a bit easier.

The best thing I did this week was to start assembling the blocks for my daughter and son-in-law’s king-sized bed quilt, based on a picture of a quilt DD saw online that she really liked. Of course, the focus fabric was discontinued a while ago, so I kept my eye out for something similar and began collecting fabrics to coordinate with it. I've finally got it all together and decided on a pattern. It won’t take long to get the top assembled, then I think I will send it out for quilting. They should have it by Christmastime.

I’ve also started using Bonnie Hunter's scrap users' system. I sound a little like a Bonnie groupie, but really, she gets so much done in the course of a day, and you can see how much fun she’s having all the while. She makes me feel like I really could finish something, too, if I just do a little each day. I know her leaders and enders method will be fun to do and help me get quilts built more often than I thought I could.

Due to very lucky timing, I got a very good deal on a new Accuquilt GO cutter on Craigslist last weekend. So fabric is getting cut for future scrap quilts.

Okay, got to get busy doing something—lots of things on my list!