This is the second of the edge-to-edge quilts I popped on before the partially done custom quilt. It's day one of doing this, and this is already my second quilt for the morning. I’m starting to feel better about my time management, but alas, I don’t have dinner planned for tonight. There is always just one spanner in the works.
I am inundated with quilt work and stress about the number of quilts piled up in the one guest bedroom. I don’t sleep well, wake up tired, get up and quilt in the wee hours of the morning, and still the requests come in. I never go back to sleep once I’m awake, but yesterday I think my body just rebelled and said “no more”. I woke up at 02:45, stayed awake and alert until 5am, then crashed. Got back into bed and slept for another hour and a half. It helped!
When a
couple of edge-to-edge quilts came my way, I was glad for this finish fast and
at least I feel the pile is getting smaller.
I took a partially done custom quilt off the frame to try and finish a
couple of the edge-to-edge quilts, and this was the first one.
This quilt arrived at an extremely busy time in my life. So much is happening, and I don’t get to do as much quilting as I would like to. My youngest granddaughter, who stays with us after pre-school, now comes out earlier as the older classes are busy with exams. My mornings, therefore, are much shorter. Hubby is finally finished with the renovations inside the house and is now waterproofing the roof.
On Wednesday, I finally had the skylights (there are three rather dark areas in the house) I so badly wanted installed. Then, we are expecting workers to fit new windows in the kitchen and replace the two wooden back doors with glass doors. When it rains, the wood swells, and we struggle to close the doors. So, the glass doors should eliminate that problem. (They never came this week...ughh!)
Furthermore,
either one of us must always be on chicken duty. House hen still threatens to kill the little
frizzle, and we dare not leave them unattended. I just have too few hours in a
day to do all my household chores and get a fair amount of quilting done, too.
This morning,
I started quilting at 02:20 while hubby and the pets were still asleep in order
to make some progress, as I’ve been working on this quilt for a whole week. The
kids came over for Father’s Day as DIL made us lunch. Needless to say, I took a well-deserved nap
afterwards, but was able to take this all red and white quilt off the frame and pack it to be returned.
This was from a quilter whose friend wanted a solid white quilt, which she plans to gift along with a blue and white Peaceful Star quilt to go in the centre of the bed as a finishing touch.
I don’t
design the inside of these solid-colour quilts (this is a different skill level), so I offered to do an edge-to-edge design.
The maker of this quilt is the same lady who made the beautiful runner I so much enjoyed working on.
Because of
all the different printed fabrics in the centre, I opted for an edge-to-edge
design with just a little detail in the sashing and border.
