Can you believe that it is March already?
We have already had two New Years and the
winter Olympics. Phew!
Summer is really running away from here.
The sun is rising an hour later and setting half an hour earlier. The
temperature is still very high at midday, but, first thing in the morning it
has started to be a bit chilly. Yay. The heat of summer can be a bit
overwhelming. This cannot be compared to the arctic vortex version of
overwhelming.
The birds are sleeping in
and I really appreciate them not making a racket at 3:30 in the morning. They
say that birds chirp at the crack of dawn as the pre-dawn hours are the
quietest part of the day; I think they make noise then as they are little
fluttery jerks that don’t like me sleeping for too long.
I am finding doing the border of the Dear
Jane quilt quite a challenge. There is a point in every quilt where the fun is
gone and strength of character is tested. A Dear Jane has a cyclic repetition
of this event. I found it on each of the steps of creating the blocks,
stitching the blocks together and now with the quilting of it, have hit a wall
at which time only the end goal can motivate you to complete the task.
I have
found keeping statistics on my progress has allowed me to compete against a
fictitious time line which makes sure that this quilt does not become a 10 year
task. I do find that blogging about it has helped. I find that comments given
can make me feel as if I am not lost in this task all by myself. I also find
that reading other people confessions about the quilt make me feel a little
less guilty about not thinking this amazing quilt is just a walk in the park. I
have now been making quilts for 5 years and my stitching does look like it is
being done by a 5 years old. J I look at the even stitches of some
quilters and can only hope that in years to come, I could achieve the same.
I ordered and received some bias binding
makers as well as the clips that I will try when I am doing the binding. I
still have not made up my mind as to what the binding fabric will be. There are
at least two months stitching before I will get to the point of binding, so I
am allowing my brain to have this as a niggling problem to worry about when not
fully engaged.
March may be a slow progress month as my
eldest daughter is getting married. My sister who lives at the coast will be
flying up for the wedding and will be visiting. This weekend I will be
constructing little boxes for my daughter, so this will probably take up most
of my quilting time. The other thing which I am being way too relaxed about is
not having organised an outfit to wear to the wedding. I must go to the shops.
I just find, if it is a toss-up between quilting and shopping, the former
always wins. There are still 15 days to go, so that is plenty of time. If need
be I will sew something myself.
I have been thinking what to quilt next.
Well I do have the cathedral window wall hanging I want to make and thereafter
I think I am going to allow myself a month or two of doing small projects. I
think I may make a supply of Christmas presents, such as place-mats and mug holders.
Maybe I can fall into the trap of trying to make the amazing things that I have
seen on Pinterest. Should they turn out not to be as good as the originals, I
can join the amusing line of pictures of what it should have looked like and
what I produced. This sounds good now, but, let‘s see when the reality of not
having a major project turns up.
Hope everyone has an amazing March and
remember only 3 weeks until Spring/Autumn.
Have a good one.
