Slow & Steady is ok...right??

Still not getting much time at the machine everyday...thinking it is just me...LOL Maybe I need to assess how and when I work best, and go with it rather than try and fight it...I don't know!

Anyway it is coming together and I am very very happy! I MUST get the borders finished tomorrow....4 days at the Craft & Quilt Fair will definitely affect my productivity.

Frustrated....

...really I am! This weekend just disappeared & I got no where near what I needed or wanted to get done...Monday is one of my out of the house days...well the afternoon is anyway. So the morning I usually spend doing housework etc. I did some today so maybe I can keep working on these borders....hhmm Will see how the day goes. At LEAST everyone should be at work/school...fingers crossed we have broken the chain of the lurgy...been about 63 hours since the last person started chucking...but I will not be completely happy will we get about 4 days clear...Anyway I am taking my grumpy self to bed....night night...

I know have...

....25 FINISHED blocks...!!

Oh man WHAT A DAY! As I said this morning, husband and youngest daughter came down with a lurgy...so it was disinfecting and washing for me all morning. Then off to the Post OP appointment with DS2...good & bad news there but that is for another post. DS1 somehow managed to collect his car, yes his first car!! He still does not have his license so I supervised him while he took it for his first drive... Oh DD1 had her car serviced so I had to drive her over to collect that...AND I got to stitch those pesky blocks...and I have done it all on about 4 hours sleep....and all day wondering "do I feel sick??" uugghhh Tomorrow the top goes together!! But NOW I sleep....the alarm is OFF ( and there is a bucket next to my bed just in case....)

So....

Don't you just LOVE life and the loops it throws you...I might get to sew today after all...that is the upside of 2 family members having a gastric bug....!!?? So I am not going to lead Playgroup (bad idea for me to go to a place with babies, children & their mothers some of whom are pregnant) Also not babysitting this evening as my sister wants her kids as far away from us as possible... Still important that we get to that Post Op appointment ....I just hope I stay well over the next couple of hours...LOL

sigh......

More of The "Other" Quilt.....

Spent the evening stitching these together..I LOVE big long lines of "flags"!! Such a sense of achievement. The are now pressed and the next stage has been stitched even.

The last couple of days have been VERY frustrating...I have not been able to get to the machine till after dinner and as I have set myself a strict (ish) deadline for locking up the shed...I am only getting in a couple of hours of sewing a day. Today I had planned my day to get these blocks finished and my back got cranky and I was forced to rest for the morning, that put me behind on my "List" of jobs (Packing parcels always takes priority and today I had lots to send)...In light of the issues with my back I probably should have skipped the sewing this evening and gone to bed early....might pay the price tomorrow.

Anyway heading to bed now (just a smidge past that deadline tonight) and am already frustrated about tomorrow...full full day..Playgroup in the morning, Post Op appointment with the Surgeon for my son, then babysitting my nieces & nephews (4 in total) tomorrow night while my sister and her husband go out for dinner...what do you think my chances are of getting into the shed??

Night night....

The "Other" Quilt .......

..... is taking shape ...... tis always nice when something takes shape the way you have seen it in your head! Plan set for tomorrow....12 more blocks to make! Then borders...


PS if this looks like a post from yesterday it is....I just had to delete that and make a correction...LOL

The Accidental Bag...

I promised some people a proper look at this bag days and days ago..but you know...other stuff got in the way...LOL Good stuff, and some not so fabby like a vomiting child...but you know that is life. I am WELL pleased with this...and love that I just stumbled across it so to speak...hiding out there in the recess of my brain. Making it has distracted me from making the other quilt samples but honestly you gotta go with the flow when it comes to creativity...SO what do YOU think??