Yesterday evening, after more than a year in the new house, we got to meet most of our neighbours during their annual year-end street barbeque. Needless to say, I can hardly remember any names but I am sure I will get there somehow.
Obviously,
this quilt will be gifted to a little girl who loves pink. I think this quilter ticked all the right
boxes.
If I understood right, this would be the second of three 9-patch quilts. The quilter doesn’t like working with yellow much but seeing this is a gift for someone, who does like yellow, she obliged.
Having done this quilt one morning, hubby told me he booked a golf game for the next day. Knowing I was up to date with my quilting and would have the next day all to myself, I made myself a list of chores. All those things needed to be done but simply didn’t during my normal cleaning routine. I sprayed the oven the previous evening and let it sit overnight. The next day I tackled my list. I cleaned the oven, the inside of the fridge, gave the shower glass a decent rub down, tried to wash feather pillows in my washing machine (not successful) and then treated myself to a lovely home pedicure, soaking my feet and giving them a break after all the cleaning.
Cleverly I
decided to wash the leaders on my quilting frame, another bad idea. I took the zippers off, and washed the leaders
and when I wanted to sew the zippers back on, the leader cloth shrunk so badly, that the zippers were too long. I now have to
start all over by making new leaders.
This time, however, I will wash the leader fabric before I do anything
else.
Fortunately,
I finished this quilt before getting any of my brainwaves otherwise the poor
quilter would have had to wait for days.
When this quilter brought her quilt, she could barely walk to my front door due to intense pain in her knee. Apart from this quilt, I had no other quilts on my waiting list. She, however, was on her way to see an orthopaedic surgeon after dropping her quilt. The pain was not her imagination as she phoned later that day to say she’d be undergoing a knee replacement the following week.
I must
admit I’ve been terribly busy quilting lately and although she said, she was in
no hurry for me to finish the quilt, the fact that she’ll be out of action for
some time, turned on my procrastination brain cell. I started off well by marking the quilt first
but then I got relaxed, knowing I didn’t have to rush. Well, it took me more
than 2 weeks to finish, not all of that time was charged to the quilter, it was
the time I took to simply “just be” between sections.
When the
next quilter made an appointment, I continued with this one and it didn’t take
that long after all.
