We had a public holiday on Thursday (Heritage Day) and being
a routine freak these midweek public holidays throws me off totally. I felt disorganised, without my routines and
useless. I so badly wanted the following
day to simply be Sunday and although most businesses closed for the Friday, we
had sub-contractor wages to pay and they surely wouldn’t appreciate me taking a
long weekend. Best I could do was to
grab the bull by the horns on Friday, get up earlier, left for the office just
after 6 am and noticed this beautiful sunrise just as I left our driveway. Surely was a sign of a positive day and I
kept it that way, getting everything and more done that I had to. Then finally it was weekend, where one day
off would lead to another.
Early Saturday morning I loaded this quilt back on the frame
and with my zipper system and the fact that I basted the whole quilt before
taking it off, everything just fell back into place and one would never even
know it was taken off and put back again.
However, with having to share my quilting space, while entertaining a
parrot, everything isn’t always smooth sailing.
I forget to press resume on my timer when starting to quilt as she gives
me a mouthful or tries to destroy something and worst of all when the timer
does go off after an hour, I forget to tick off another hour. Fine with this quilt but I’ll be losing out
terribly when having to charge a customer.
My space always doesn’t look as neat as I’d like it with this lady
around.
By Saturday evening I’ve about had it with circles and ruler
work doesn’t get any faster even after outlining hundreds of these circles
twice! A couple of times where I thought
to go faster I veered off the line totally, so slow was the way to go.
This afternoon we will be attending the 60th
birthday of one of the very first friends I made when we moved here from
Kimberley in 1987 and it disheartening to accept I have such old friends and I
am there with them!!
Finally done and time to add the binding but this will be a
pleasure while watching the French Open tennis for the next two weeks. As much as I love to quilt I would not mind
having these two weeks off to follow the tennis from beginning to end.
Here is a little close-up of the motifs front and back.
The quilt measures 86” x 86” and I trimmed it in such a way
that the stripes could go horizontally or vertically on the bed and as for the
front (at least) what will be on the left will be on the right with the thick
black line in the centre. This took a
full 18 hours to quilt, give or take the couple of times I forgot to resume the
timer.
I have two more pieces of the same fabric in different
colours but you can bet your bottom dollar I won’t be outlining the circles on
these.
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