A Better Day

Good morning, my friends. Happy Monday to you! It's going to be a good sewing day here. Yesterday's sewing efforts went so much more smoothly than the day before. It's amazing how much easier things are when you do them the right way. Have you noticed that?

My day started with slow-stitching, as always. I took the first stitches on the fourth design for the Girls' Getaway quilt.

Slow stitching has been keeping me calm over the past week. I'll probably give it a little more time today, and maybe (hopefully) I can finish this one off.

From there I spent some time working on the "Mosaic" quilt. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I decided to start over using the true colors of the photograph I'm working from. My goal was to get it to the place where I'd been the day before. None of this is sewn together yet. I'm still trying to decide whether to sew the rows together as I make them, or wait until all the squares are done. 

Originally, I thought I'd finish them all first so that I could see if any particular square stood out too much. Now that I've switched to a more neutral color, that seems less important. I might decide to sew them together row by row. I'm still mulling it over.

From there, I did some quilting on my Beach Bum ladies. The left-most lady is finished. I've also done the dragonflies and the drink to her left.

There was still plenty of time in the day, and so I did the lady to her right as well. This is turning out to be pretty easy. When I've done this kind of quilting in the past, I've jumped around from piece to piece, leaving lots of jump threads to deal with at the end. These ladies make it easier to travel a short distance and then start at a new spot. I'm not using many jump threads, and I'm not having to cut thread very often either.

I'm just hopeful I have enough thread on my bobbin to finish this off without the need to wind another. So far the hardest part of working with this monofilament thread (for me) has been winding the bobbin. Here's how it's looking from the back. I've intentionally left the image dark so the stitching shows up a little better. 

And then I left it needle down on the middle lady's flip flops. 

There's not much on today's agenda, and we have leftovers for dinner. With it raining outside, it's looking like a mostly sewing day. I'll try to get another row of squares done on the Mosaic quilt, and I might even be able to finish off the quilting on the beach bum ladies. I've been keeping a splint on my left wrist, and my wrist is feeling fine. Possibly I've found a solution to the tendonitis problem.

It's Veteran's Day today. If you're a working person, I'm hoping you have the day off. And if you're a veteran, then thank you for your service.

That's all I have for you today. I hope there's plenty of sewing on your Monday agenda. Have a good day, Everybody, and a good week ahead!