Final Four

Good morning, my friends. It gives me great pleasure to announce that all the quilt sandwiches are finished. It feels as if I've been given a new lease on life. There were just four more to finish yesterday. First up was The Story of My Day.

Next...the Kittens quilt. This one was fun to stitch.

Next was the fourth and final Shop Hop quilt.

And, finally, happily, the recently finished Land & Sea quilt.

They're all stacked up in the sewing room now. There are 16 pictured here.

And then, the Merry, Merry Snowmen are teed up on my quilting machine ready for me to get going on the quilting. Probably I'll start on this today. As I've said, I'm making quilting my focus for the year as I try to get some of these old projects finished up. As much as I can, I'm going to try to do a little quilting every day. Today seems like a good time to start.

That would have been enough for a day, but I still had those unfinished headrests bothering me. After sitting for a while, and in the last few minutes before I needed to start dinner, I decided to sew the Velcro onto the headrests. I used a blanket stitch for this. With the right kind of sewable Velcro, this was a quick job.

Here's how that looks from the front.

And then we took them out to the RV to attach them to the recliners. As a reminder, this is how they looked without the covers.

And there we go. It's not a perfect solution, but it's an inexpensive one.

Okay, so today will be a day of what passes for normal. I have a few things to catch up on. For one thing, I haven't done my PT exercises this week, and I have PT again on Wednesday. I'll do those today. Although the sandwiching process was plenty physical, I was able to do it with virtually no shoulder pain. Also, I need to make May's orange inverted star for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. As you might guess, housework has gone begging over the past several days. I have one easy housekeeping chore, and I need to do some laundry. 

Probably, tomorrow's post will be later in the day. It's my birthday tomorrow, and my friend Sue has invited me to breakfast. Also, Mike and I need to make a short grocery shopping trip, and then we're eating dinner out tomorrow night. If I can squeeze in time for blogging, it will mostly likely be after lunch. 

It's going to be good to get back to some "regular" sewing today. I'm looking forward to it. First, though, slow-stitching, as always. Le Jardin is on the home stretch, and I expect to finish it this morning.