Tidy Up
After a sewing project or two the threads are everywhere. As many wastebaskets that I have in various locations in the sewing studio, some are still bound to take flight. Dennis cleaned the vacuum filter after I was finished and he was wondering if I sat in a corner making small bits of thread.
The bright colors were fun to work with even if some had to be spliced to be able to be used.
Yesterday after folding up the large turquoise and coral quilt with the embroidery motifs, I had not planned on starting anything new. I thought I was burned out. Not! I was in the process of making tidy the work area when I could not help myself from thumbing through the scrap box. At the very bottom was a half yard of a printed panel. It was a panel of the alphabets, three letters to a block. Before I knew it, I had some scraps for this and a few scraps for that and the challenge was on for making a crib sized quilt. Not all projects need to be queen or king sized.
I knew I had supper in the bag. From roasting out a large turkey from Kersten and Kevin, we had several bags of roasted chopped turkey in the freezer. I planned on using some cream of chicken soup to add to the turkey for hot sandwiches. The sandwiches coupled with a lettuce salad and the menu was planned, giving me ample time to sew a few seams. I did call it quits when I realized I had sewn the last seam placing the right side of the quilt to the wrong side of the border, rather than the two right sides facing each other.
It wasn’t much fun knowing that the first job of the day was taking the seam ripper out and taking out that last seam. It did give me time to consider what sort of backing to put on a crib quilt. When all was said and done, I had taken 
everything out of each tote to find just the right yardage. I am not going to mention just how many totes that entailed. When I saw the Crayon print yard goods, I knew it would be the right fit. It may have been a good find, but I shot myself in the foot. As I went through the totes, I weeded out bits of scraps that had been folded into the larger pieces. I had been working very hard to use up scraps and now my scrap box is again just as full as before all the pot holders and placemats have been cranked out. This puts a whole new slant on job security. Care must be given when one is doing a tidy up.