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.