Borderline

There's a finished flimsy ahead in my sewing room. I need just one more border to finish off the Snowflakes quilt; and let me just say, it feels like a victory. It'll probably be the last machine sewing I do for a while. Getting one last finish under my belt before taking a little break will feel pretty good. 

There was no kitty help yesterday. They couldn't tear themselves away from the news reports of yesterday's shenanigans on Capitol Hill. So I was going it alone in the sewing room. I cut and sewed the first border from the same pale blue fairy frost that was used to make the pieced snowflakes.

Before cutting the next border, I took a picture of the whole fabric so you can see how pretty it is. I've used this before in a binding, but there's still a good-sized hunk left even after cutting the borders and binding strips yesterday. I picked this up in our travels somewhere along the way. It isn't as pretty in the photograph because the silvery stuff doesn't show as well.

I took a break before sewing the second border and gave my shoulder a rest. When it was added all the way around, it looked like this:

It was tempting to go on, but I'm sticking with the limits I set for myself from the get-go. So I settled for cutting the strips for the third border and the binding strips, and then called it a day.

The third border is a directional print, and I wanted to keep the design all going in the same direction. It'll be like a snowstorm in the center of a snowy landscape...or at least that's what I'm telling myself. 

So I'll get that sewn on today, and then I'll need to sew one seam to create the back for it. I'm using the fabric below. This is the one fabric I purchased for this quilt. The rest all came from my stash.

And that pretty much sums up the day for yesterday. 

This morning seems like the first sort of normal morning in a long time. I slept well and got up during the 5:00 hour, which is my usual rising time. Read my email, checked in on Facebook, read the news, drank coffee. Now I'm writing my blog post. Generally Mike gets up while I'm doing that, and he did. (I thanked him for sticking to the schedule.) When I'm finished here, I'll go do my slow-stitching and listen to my audiobook, and that will be my usual morning routine. My arm is even feeling pretty good both yesterday and this morning. It's still painful, and nowhere near complete recovery, but it is hopeful to start doing things in the usual routine way.

Today I'll finish off the Snowflakes quilt...yay!...and we have a grocery shopping trip planned. It'll be the last time we do any grocery shopping before we reach our destination of Pahrump, Nevada, next week. Surprisingly, the list isn't very long. A lot of the food for the beginning of the trip consists of leftovers frozen through the year, and so we really just need to get through the next few days before we head out.

So that will be a good day's work. Let's just hope for more normalcy in the days and weeks ahead.