Distracted

Good morning, my friends. It was a slow day yesterday. I had plenty of sewing I could have done, but I found myself lost in thought about a million and one different things. It was hard to get moving and focus on any one thing. Sue and I had breakfast in the morning, and I handed off the Ties & Tails quilt to her. When I got home, she texted me a picture of her hubby enjoying his new quilt.

I don't know about you, but the quilter in me lives for this kind of picture. While we were at the restaurant, Sue was opening little corners of the quilt to look at it. I suggested we each take an end, and we opened it up. Folks in the restaurant started clapping. It was pretty funny. Everyone can rest easy now that Ties & Tails has found a purrmanent home.

Back at my house, I really wanted to finish up the section of Girls' Getaway I was working on. This quilt was originally a block of the month, and the block I'm working on was the first in the series. As a reminder, here's how it will look when it's all finished.

When I first saw it this pattern, it was the camper that enticed me to purchase it, but I really liked the colorful braided rug too. Well...fast forward to actually making the quilt, and that braided rug is a painus in the anus to stitch. It's stitched all in a tiny chain stitch, which makes complete sense for a "braided" rug. Nevertheless, it's among my least favorite stitches to do. Often, I'll substitute a stem stitch rather than do a bunch of chain stitching. And all of that to say that I've been painstakingly stitching all those little chains, one after another. To make it palatable, I've been doing just one length of floss at a time. Yesterday, I had it close enough to finishing the section that I decided to stitch and stitch and stitch until I'd stitched the whole thing.

Phew!

And then I moved my hoop. Bummer. I'm barely half finished with all the chain stitching. As with all things, this too shall pass.

That's where I'll pick it up this morning. I'll keep going one length of floss at a time, and I'll get 'er done.

After all that, I needed to take a nap. It was fairly late in the day before I made my way to the sewing room. There, I found Smitty ready to get to work.

He helped me make Block 10 of the Barn Block sampler. I was stitching this in the colors of last year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge, but I've plum run out of colors now. Looking at the colors I'd already used, I decided to do this one in browns. It went together fairly easily.

These are the ten blocks I have for this quilt so far.

That was all the sewing I did yesterday.

Today is a day at home...always good news. I want to do a little housekeeping...something I put off from yesterday. And then I want to get in a walk on the treadmill. After that, the day will be spent mostly sewing. I love a sewing Saturday, don't you? When I'm looking forward to a good day of sewing, I want to get started on it right away, and so I think I will. Enjoy your weekend everybody.