Goodbye April 2019

DSC_0181Working on quilt labels

I worked in the sewing room this morning. First I had to get it straightened back up. I had discombobulated everything in an effort to dust and vacuum and get rid of some of the stash of fabric jibbles, threads, pet hair, dust balls, etc.,, that had piled up over the last few months. I also, to my chagrin, found a couples of plastic baskets that someone had used for pee pots. I don’t know if it was Taco during the time he was having his problem (eschewing the litter box), or if it was that famous pee-pee-anyplace-I-please mutt Mr. Skipper Lou Blue. Anyway, I threw out the baskets as well as their contents. Thank goodness, they didn’t contain much and nothing of importance.

After I got everything pretty much squared away and was able to get to stuff again, i did some work on quilt labels for my quilt show entries. It’s only about six weeks until the show, and I still have three quilts to bind, sleeves to sew on five quilts, labels to create and  attach to all six, and pillowcases to label. The way we turn our quilts in for the show is to place each one in a separate bag or pillowcase with the pillowcase labelled with all the info that appears on the quilt label. 

So, as you can see, I have a lot of work to do in the next six weeks. But I also have books to read. I made a lot of progress on Cemetery Road yesterday, even though I had a dentist appointment and had to go grocery shopping. But the times I got home from all of that, pretty much all I was good for was lying on the couch and reading. The book is comparatively long--a smidgen over 600 pages. But it’s such a good book that I don’t mind the length. 

Can you believe April is already easing out the door? Every year, it seems that time speeds up more and more. One-third of 2019 is already history. I was hoping to be well on the way to being ready for Christmas by September. At this rate, it’s looking doubtful that that plan will pan out.

DSC_0184Here’s a hack for you. I ordered this gadget to hang mugs on in the kitchen beside my coffee maker. Well that was one of those ideas that looked better in the photos that it turned out to be. It’s just too large, with the mugs on it, to fit in the space I had planned for it. It just got in the way. So I decided to put the mugs back in the cabinet and take the gadget upstairs to the sewing room to hang all my scissors on. It works fine for that.

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On 05/02/2019, Barbara Anne said ...

Sorry about that discovery of someone using your baskets as a loo. Tsk, tsk! Am glad nothing of value was lost.

6 weeks should be plenty of time to do the tasks needed to complete those quilts. Perhaps you should have a day to choose binding and hanging sleeve fabrics, a day to cut your chosen fabrics into strips for both bindings and hanging sleeves, a day to piece bindings,and a day to sew up those hanging sleeves. Then you can hand sew or machine sew while you mull over the wording for your quilt labels and write each one down along with a note about which quilt it would go on. Make the labels. You'll probably have several weeks left to get the quilts finished and hope taking things one at a time will help.

I LOVE that floral label that shows in the top photo. Is it a stamp or printed fabric?

Great idea for the mug tree!

Hugs!
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