Some Regular Sewing

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast today...although, not too fast. I have an eye exam this morning. I get my eye exams at an optometrist office located inside a Costco store. I'm not a fan of Costco, and the only time I set foot inside the store is for my annual eye exam. Fortunately, it's in a smaller town south of downtown Portland, and so it's an easy drive. I awakened to pouring rain this morning. We've received almost a full inch of rain in the past 24 hours. If I can wish for anything  today, it will be that the rain lets up at least a little bit.

After working with monofilament threads for the past week or so, it was good to get back to some regular cotton thread and easy sewing. Sadie was my helper cat yesterday. She awaited instructions...

And then we went to work. The most difficult part of this project is finished now. Sadie helped me pick out a couple of greens.

With her help, I finished off another row. I considered continuing on, but one row is about all I'm good for. The piece will get easier after this, and so I might do more as I move to the right. For now, here's your peek.

Nothing about this piece is giving me any confidence it will end up looking like the photograph. As is often the case, the thread work at the end might save it. And if not...maybe it's going to be an abstract piece. I suppose I can let the quilt decide what it wants to be when it's finished.

So, moving on, I switched out the needle and the thread and set up the machine for "regular" sewing. Sadie helped me square up the Beach Bums quilt.

That was her last gasp for helping. She was 'zhausted by then.

Purrhaps you could work more quietly.

Snzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

So, I was on my own sewing on the binding. I has a couple of scrap binding pieces left over from another quilt. And I had enough of that striped fabric to get around the Beach Bum ladies.

It was late in the day by then, and so that's as far as I got with it. It's downstairs awaiting binding clips, needle, and thread. I'm only hoping to have some time for sewing today. If I do, I'll get started on this. Also, I left the machine set up for regular sewing so that I can make the back for Ruth's Legacy. When that's done, I'll get back to the Mosaic piece...probably tomorrow.

For now, I'm heading to my slow stitching. Here's where I left off yesterday. Given a little extra stitching time this morning, I might be able to finish this off today.

And since I'm writing fast, I'm finishing fast too. I hope y'all have a good day planned for yourselves.