Stuff I've been working on...

Well, I finally spent some time in my sewing room this past weekend. I got my bargello top put together. It still needs borders but I am going to put it away for a while. Not sure what I want to do with it border-wise and I don't seem to be particularly motivated to work on it. I also finished up a top for a baby. It is for a girl (I thought) that hasn't been born, but now the mom is saying she thinks it might be a boy (they had a sonogram early and it was determined to likely be a girl but maybe only 85% or something, so now she's not sure) so I am not going to finish it til it's born. If it is a boy-she might not get a quilt! We'll see.

I thought joining Tonya's class would give me lots of motivation to quilt, but I am still undecided about what I am doing. I love some of the stuff that others have done. I seem to like everyone's ideas but can't come up with my own! I did do a heart this weekend (I like those) and I like doing the free pieced letters but I just don't know how I want to put them together or what colors to use-I guess I could keep with the green and blue that I started with , but I don't have all those exact fabrics that I started with-I'm running out. I'm just having trouble with decisions lately-even what to make for dinner has become a major dilemma some nights! Hopefully I will get out of this soon and get back to normal. For now I'm going to keep watching what everyone else is doing and maybe one of those lightbulbs will appear above my head, and I'll know exactly what to do-

Another new project....

For some reason, I can't just start one project and keep working on it until I finish. I have to start many projects and have them in different stages of completion. So while still working on the bargello quilt which I just started last weekend I decided I had to start another one! What's wrong with me-maybe ADD? I don't know. But I was going to do a baby quilt, then I went and picked out red, white and black fabrics. I liked the pattern, but after doing a couple of blocks I decided that even though they say the black and white contrast is good for babies, I want to do a pink one, so I'm not sure what I want to do with the red and black quilt I just started?

I guess I don't really need to know what I want to do with it, I just wanted to do it.

Oh yeah, and I want to make some house blocks for Bonnie-both a scrappy happy house from her site and one from Tonya's wonky houses also. So I guess I'll start working on those tonight....

Who says you have to finish projects? I just like to start them!

Bargello progress

Well I got some work done on the bargello quilt, but I am not sure how Bonnie did hers all in one day. Maybe I need some Focus Factor or something but I have only gotten one of my strip sets sub cut and they still need to be sewn together. I did get all the strip sets themselves sewn though. I intended to do more during the superbowl but I ended up watching a movie with Zack. He didn't want to watch the superbowl either, so I told him I would rent him a movie. It was not that great -some teen movie- so I didnt really pay attention to the whole thing but I didnt want to go upstairs and leave him completely alone to watch it. So I have been doing a bit at a time.

Last night was the only night I didnt have to run him anywhere, so I got the one set cut up. Boy I don't know how single mothers do it! I'm glad Jim will be back next week! Of course there's not as much running around to do next week. Zack had religion on Monday and he has a school dance on Friday this week which won't happen next week. So maybe I can rope Jim into both nights of karate and I can stay home and work on my bargello. That won't be too hard, he always offers to take him anyway and he will feel bad about being gone all this week. Even if I do my one night of running Zack to karate, it will still only be one night out as opposed to the 4 this week. Well I do have tomorrow off so I can give myself a goal to get to where all the sets have been subcut and then get them sewn together this weekend. Sounds like a good goal-we'll see what happens....