Quilt top finished!!

 

Quilt top finished!! Now my least favorite step in quilting……the backing especially if I need to sew chunks together……and I am determined to use fabrics from the stash.  —Ann—

More therapy

 

I started cutting strips for the borders and kept getting distracted because I wasn’t thrilled with the plan. It was so boring with limited fabric……..aha do a piano key border! Isn’t that much more interesting and also able to incorporate more fabrics including some of my pansy fabrics which have become wonder what I am going to do with those fabrics. I’m using the back side of a couple fabrics because they blend in better. I paid for both sides of the fabric, use that side too. It’s going to mean a lot more sewing time…..more therapy.  —Ann—

Therapy

A little time in the sewing room was like therapy for a somewhat chaotic life. Indecision on the borders was the hold up on this quilt, that and too many other things demanding my time. I completely used some of the fabrics.  Ask myself what would grandma do?  I made the quilt longer by almost a full block by sewing 8 more blocks then cutting them in half and sewing to the other end. It still needs a 2 1/2 inch border of purple all the way around. I’m auditioning some purples that were at the bottom of the stash and then to find enough of a purple for the binding. Decisions, challenges, progress and therapy—Ann—

New chair in the sunroom

 Friday I bought a new chair for the sunroom……. I need to scrub those labels and off why did the manufacturer put them there?!??  I had a high back chair that matched the lounger but one side was ripping away from the frame and a support broke off the bottom. I frequently stop to consider the consequences so my very active imagination saw me falling through the seat and getting stuck, really stuck with the little wires gouging my flesh, hubby off fishing, the phone out of reach and the doors all locked. So I went shopping and found the perfect chair for the sunroom.  While I was drinking my coffee sitting in my new chair I thought I really should tidy up this room. Piles of projects all over the floor, books, papers, yarn, plants, you get the picture since I don’t post pictures of my messes.  A book shelf is what this room needs an hour later after looking at book shelves on line I take a tour of the house.  I have a bookshelf downstairs stuffed with quilts.  Perfect!! Decide I will clear out the sunroom vacuum and dust everything and above all put a time limit to finish before lunch.  I was done at 11:30!  Sit down in my new chair in my tidy sunroom and have a glass of ice water.  I’ll deal with the mess that is being relocated after lunch.  This looks like the perfect place for a glass of wine later.  Enjoying the weekend—Ann—