Fourth November Finish

Good morning, my friends. It was a busy day yesterday. As I've mentioned previously, I almost always have some sort of housekeeping chore on the day's to-do list. Usually, I can move things around and do some of those chores on a different day. That’s not going to work between now and Thursday. We'll have eight for dinner, and so I must finish everything if I am to be ready. And all of that to say there wasn't a lot of time for sewing.

Of course, I started with my slow stitching. Tiny Treasure #20 turns out to be a little more time-consuming than some of the others. I could only get the pear and its stem finished before I needed to stop. This morning, I'll fill in the leaves with a green buttonhole stitch. They're an odd shape for buttonhole stitch, and so I might end up doing something different from what the pattern tells me to do.

From there, I got in a walk on the treadmill and cleaned the downstairs. After lunch and a short nap, I went to work finishing the hand-stitching on the quilt binding. Turning the fourth corner...

I had just about 30 inches to stitch to finish it off. When that was done, I had a finished quilt. This project was started November 26, 2022, and so it was almost exactly three years in the making. And that makes my fourth finished quilt in November. The other three were small. This one finishes at 62 x 74 inches.

Here's a peek at the back. If you've been paying attention, you might recall I was on the hunt for a backing fabric when we made our Eclipse Trip in Spring of 2024. I found the perfect fabric at a quilt shop in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sadly, they didn't have enough. But then, I found it again at a quilt shop in Georgetown, Texas, and I snapped it up.

Okay, and so I have a little less on the day's calendar, but I'll be tackling the laundry. For sure I'll have time to get serious about sewing the "S" is for Sew project into a finished quilt top. I had some ideas about this, but now I'm thinking I might take it in a different direction. Actually, I won't know what's going to happen until I see what my hands do with it. Sometimes they take off on their own, and I can't control them.

So that's it from me today. That mountain of laundry isn't going to wash itself. Why is that? With AI and robots and every other modern convenience we enjoy these days...why hasn't someone figured out how to get the laundry to wash itself? Something to ponder, for sure.