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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Sewing therapy


I desperately needed some fabric therapy this morning - rather than focusing on work tasks for both of my part time jobs.  So I took the morning off.  The left half of my Saturday Sampler quilt is all put together.  Building a quilt in vertical columns instead of horizontal rows is kind of strange.  And notice how dark it is in my sewing room.  Thunder, lights blinking - and so rain so far. What strange weather.


Once that half quilt top was done I decided to work on something else before tackling the other half.  So that Halloween table topper I found a couple of weeks ago is now quilted.  Just simple rows of diagonal quilting 2" apart.  The backing is out of my stash.  But I didn't find anything for binding that looked good with those vintage oranges on the front, except for black.  And I don't want black binding on this because the outer border and backing are already black.  So I may need to take this to The Pin Cushion as see what I can find in a more vintage orange color.  


Now that I've had some sewing time today I feel like I can tackle online classes and invoices.

I'm teaching 3 online classes this semester and classes started officially yesterday for most of the region's school districts.  But not all of them.  A few will start next week, and most of my online students - so far - are from districts starting next week.  We always have additional enrollments come in during that first week of school, so we'll see how many I end up with.

And for my other part time job, I have been neglecting contractor invoices the past couple of weeks because our focus has been on putting together "closeout" packets for several projects that are done.  As I type this I see that I just got an email from a contractor with the final set of signatures needed.  So - I'll be very busy the rest of the day with that job.  My mantra is "hours worked = $$ for quilting".  Keeps me motivated some days.  
 

7 comments:

  1. The first section of your sampler looks great. That project will soon be finished. Nice to have the extra money for quilting supplies and expenses.

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  2. Your sampler blocks are so pretty! I don't think I've ever put a quilt together top to bottom.

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  3. Looking good...glad you had some sewing time:)

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  4. You made good use of your sanity sewing time. Hopefully you got in a bit more later in the week.

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  5. Sewing always sounds more appealing than work tasks! The sampler quilt really looks neat, and a fun tabletopper being finished up for Halloween, too. Good luck with classes starting up!

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  6. SEW glad you took the time for a little quilting break, Sara!

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  7. Seems like I saw some new Halloween fabrics that had a more vintage feel. Hope you can find something you like. Halloween is just around the corner!

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