Mid-week update

Another slow week again! I didn't do a whole lot over the long weekend even though I had big plans. I ended up just finishing the quilting on the SIS quilt, burying all the threads from the bobbins and the breakage, cut bindings for the 6 charity quilts that I have quilted recently and cutting the Whimsy fabric. I also knit a few more rows on my sweater back. So I spent Labor Day doing very little laboring on anything! I actually got a 2.5 hour nap in! Woo hoo!

 

I'm feeling a little guilty that I didn't get the bindings pieced together and pressed so that they are ready to be attached to the quilts and that I didn't actually get any of the Bento Box blocks sewn together and still have not started sewing on the black and white blocks to assemble the center of that quilt. What else is a long weekend for?

 

I am very happy though that I was sufficiently rested for work yesterday! And I made myself a nice dinner on Monday that can be enjoyed for the rest of the week in the form of very easy lunches! And some dinners. :)

 

Tonight, I am heading to a new Quilt Guild with Barb. It seems like the gals are more our age and it will be fun to see what they are working on!

 

This weekend is the start of the Tri State Shop Hop and I was able to talk Barb into joining me! There are some new to me shops involved and most of all of the shops will be new to Barb. It will be great to run into some of the shops that I haven't been to in a year and a half. I can't wait to see the samples and the inventory that all the shops have now. And I am very excited to have a $25 gift certificate to one of the first shops we will be hitting! Knowing Barb, we are going to have a fantastic time!! I can't wait!

 

I am planning on just doing some hand work in the evening after the hopping because I am usually pretty beat after the first day of hopping. I really want to get the binding on the Santa quilt so that I can work on getting that finished. That might just be my only goal for the rest of this week!

 

Also, I realized this morning that I only have 17 more rows to knit on my sweater back until I can bind it off! I hope that I can get that done this weekend, too! I need to send the yarn shop a message to see when I can come back in for the sleeve re-work so that I can get those finished and get this sweater ready to wear! In case you don't remember, the pattern calls for fluted sleeves and I just want straight sleeves. Maybe half length sleeves, too, because I am sure that I have enough yarn for that! It shouldn't be too much longer before my first sweater is done. Maisy was extremely interested in the back while I was counting my rows... I might just have to find a pattern to make one for her! :)

 

Happy Wednesday!