A Cold, Sunny & Great Day
As I did a few laps on the concrete drive, it did totally refresh me. Stretching the legs and swinging the arms . . . it can’t do anything but help keeping mobile.
Today was the day to finish up a project that has been in the planning and making for several months. There was no point rushing as I was not going anywhere. Dennis and I have stayed close to home for a year. Time does pass regardless if we are out and about or not.
My Victorian Santa quilt is finished and Dennis helped me hang it in the sewing studio. As long as those Santa images and I have been working together, I am going to enjoy them for a bit longer than what the season indicates. It was a labor of intense thoughts and planning. I didn’t want any aspect of the project to be settling for less than what I had set out to do. I did spend three full days picking out stitches. My first thought on quilting this went south. Try, try, try again.
Spending time in quilting the red areas with red thread and the green areas with green thread while the entire back of the quilt was done with green thread to match the backing turned out great. I didn’t want it to look over quilted. I didn’t want to take away from the 25 images that I had printed out onto fabric. I had my doubts if I could pull it off. Time on each step was well worth it. Nothing says contentment like putting the last of the stitches on the binding. As I was doing the binding I also included a hanger as the top binding was stitched on.
I learned quite a bit with this project and had a lot of time to think on various items that were in no way related to sewing or quilting. It was a twofer. It was definitely a good experience.
The last item on the agenda was cleaning the sewing machine and putting in a new needle. I have an idea as to what will be on the church tables for the next go-round.
Using up what is on hand is my goal and thus far it has been working out. Brett just delivered an arm full of batting that he has cut off of his log arm after his stitching projects. The timing of getting my batting adhesive from Amazon will have me putting together a good sized backing for the next “whatever.”
The sun has power and with the south blinds opened each morning, they can really take a lot of chill off the house.
Smile . . . Jesus loves us!