Prep Work

Good morning, my friends. We had another day of rain...some wind, but not as much as we expected. Mike tells me the storm came at us from the south. Since we're just over the crest of our hill on the north side of the mountain, we had a bit of shelter from the wind. Once again, Sadie gave an excellent demonstration on how to spend a wet and windy day. She is an expurrt at this.

My morning was spent in the usual way...with a little slow-stitching.

There were a couple of easy household chores to do, and I went for a walk on the treadmill. After lunch, I girded up my loins to sandwich It Takes A Village. Smitty was my helper cat. 

I had some scraps of batting I could piece together. There was one large piece, but I needed a little more width. I had a piece that would work if I gave it a little more length. That worked out fine.

I like to use the double overlock stitch, which happens to be stitch #10 on my Bernina 750QE. It gives me a nice flat seam.

And then I could sandwich my quilt. It's always a good feeling when that's done. Sandwiching is my least favorite part of quilting.

When I made this quilt, I hated every minute I spent on those paper-pieced blocks. It was one of those projects I wished I'd never started. As I've said many times, I really dislike paper-piecing. Still, I love how this quilt turned out. I had some good fabrics for finishing it off. It was worth the gnashing of teeth that went along with making the blocks.

Upstairs, I selected this yellow Bottom Line thread for the bobbin. There was already a partially wound bobbin, and that always seems as if the thread is telling me what to do. It's almost as if it's waving its arms and yelling "Pick me! Pick me!"

It's a 60 weight thread. (This is more for my reference than yours.)

Then I found a top thread approximately the same color. There's no information on this spool, but I suspect it's a 50 weight thread.

Smitty helped me get my tension adjusted purroperly.

And then I stitched from one quilt corner to the other. 

After stitching across one block, I checked the tension on the back. That looks good to me.

Smitty and I were both feeling pretty smug at how easily we got that tension adjusted.

It always takes me a day to shift my brain into quilting mode, and so I left it needle down here. I'll get busy with that today. Probably, I won't finish the quilting today, but it's a small quilt. It shouldn't take too long.

Also on today's agenda is a Bowflex workout. There's a housekeeping chore, but nothing I can't put off until tomorrow if I want to. I've come to think of procrastination as the first step in any housekeeping chore. For the sake of my wrists and hands, I'll limit my quilting time to about one hour. If there's still time left in the day, I'll get busy making a little quilt top from Autumn's Harvest Pumpkin stitchery.

'Tis the season for displaying this. If I can get the top finished, I might let it skip to the front of the line and finish it off.

So that's my day. The big dark is upon us. It has rained almost non-stop for the past two days. Yesterday we even got a few snowflakes, although it's not nearly cold enough for any accumulation. We're expecting more rain today. It looks like we're going to see some clearing beginning tomorrow and through the coming week. For now...it's good sewing weather. If you're looking for me, I'll be in the sewing room.