Good morning, my friends. I never actually know what I'm going to tell you when I sit down for these little chats until I take the pictures off my camera. There were only four pictures today, and that tells me I had a slug-like day yesterday. Probably I needed the rest. I hadn't done any slow-stitching the day before, and so I decided to just stitch on this piece until it was done. This is May's block for The Sewing Room BOM from Jenny of Elefantz.
It still needs borders, and then I'll need to make three more pieced blocks. These are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.
And that left me with an impending stitching emergency again, so I traced the final three blocks for "S" is for Sew. It's pretty hard to see anything there before I start stitching.
But these are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.
It was a nice day. I sat outside for a while, and then I took a nap. It was an easy-going day with nothing on my agenda except sewing. We even had leftovers for dinner.
Earlier, though, Sadie joined me in the sewing room. She was still a little suspicious of the bears, but knowing I was poking them with my sewing machine needle made her a little more comfortable.
And I spent the whole of my sewing room day top-stitching the bear family. It's surprisingly time-consuming. Now I have everything done except for the noses and details for the faces. I expect to finish the top-stitching early today, and then I can get a start on the rest of the quilt.
I was expecting the extra border fabric for this quilt to arrive yesterday, and indeed, our mail notification said it was "expected today," meaning yesterday. When it wasn't delivered, I checked the tracking info to find it had arrived at our local Hillsboro post office, but then for whatever crazy reason, returned to Portland...it's previous stop. WTF?
Well. I suppose stranger things have happened. Now I'm thinking I won't see it until tomorrow at the earliest, but it's a little worrisome. Why was it returned to Portland? No one can say. It's a mystery wrapped up in an enigma.
Okay, so I'll keep you posted on the Mystery of the Missing Fabric. Where is Nancy Drew when you need her? For now, I'm going to make some pancakes. And then I'm going to spend most of the day sewing. It's a nice day, though. It would be a good day to get out for a walk, and I might do just that.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. ~ Pat Paulsen
Lovely stitching projects! Regarding the mail thing: yeah, it is sometimes very surprising (not in a good way) to what happens to packages. Twice I've had things not arrive by the "estimated delivery date" only to have a replacement arrive and THEN the original package arrives after! Boggles the mind!
The saga of the mail is funny in a sad sort of way. I had a package coming from Las Vegas it got all the way to Portland, just a few more miles to my house. Then it went back to Vegas.
Don't get me started on the mail service, there is a reason I switched to UPS when sending my quilts out for quilting. Love the bears, those are so adorable. Hopefully yesterday was more productive.
I feel like our mail bounces around more in recent years than it used to. Or maybe it always did and we just couldn't track it. But one would think once it arrives in the local post office it would stay put. Hope it arrives safely today!
I'm catching up on posts, so I hope by this time the fabric has arrived!
I hope the wayward parcel has arrived! One never comprehends how/why the post office sees fit to take one step forward and then reverse course. One Christmas we sent a parcel to our family in BC and it went back and forth across the country three times before they finally got it. Last time I shipped a parcel via Canada Post, now I use either UPS or FedEx.
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