Quotidian takes over

My sewing time has been very limited because the every day things in life just seem to have to happen every day.  For some reason dishes keep appearing.  Laundry comes out of no where.  Friends actually want to see my face.  You know, stuff like that.  Sheesh.  :)  Pretty soon our garden will add itself to the list. (There are already weeds I need to get rid of... What's with that?  Weeds shouldn't be allowed until after my first flowers have bloomed.)

Today I was just about to sit down and sew, LC had been asleep for an hour so I had about another hour or so to work on a project, when all of a sudden for some unknown reason my son is up and crying like he'd been abandoned.  I could tell this wasn't going to be one of those times when he magically puts himself back to sleep (one can dream...), so I went in to see if his leg was stuck in the crib or if his room had gotten too hot.  None of the above.  He's just standing there crying like he doesn't have a friend in the world.  So I held him, and rocked him, and sang to him, and eventually gave in to the fact that he was not.going.back.to.sleep.Momma.  Instead we went to the park and he fought imaginary foes with various sticks that he found.  Much better than sleeping, I agree.  Ha.

Anyway.  Last week I needed to practice curved piecing for part of a small quilt I've been working on.  If I've done curved piecing it's been years, so I needed to try it out on something else before I destroyed the "real" project.  I also needed to cut into some of my stash.  It's just sitting there looking pretty, but not as pretty as it could be were it on display.  SO. I killed two birds with one stone and created this little mini quilt.

It's still in the quilting stage, or I'd show you more than just the top (this is the "sandwich" before I started basting it).  And since I'm hand quilting, that might take a while :)  Even though it takes me forever to hand quilt, I love doing it.  There's something so relaxing about working with my hands.

Although I did draw out a design before I started I didn't figure out exact dimensions.  So there were some changes and additions as I went along.  It went VERY smoothly, though.  Almost eerily smoothly (I don't think I had to use the seam ripper once.... what does that mean for the rest of the project?!? Oy.)  Unlike the receiving blanket I was working on later in the week were the bobbin thread ran out and I didn't notice until I had sewn at least 24 inches further along...... Yeah. That wasn't fun.  There was a deadline for that one.  Why is it always the projects with deadlines seem to go haywire? Ah, well, I digress.  So the project is made up of 4 blocks.  The two that are about 7x7 worked well right away.

The two that are about 9x7, though I underestimated how wide the strips needed to be.  So they started out like this:

And ended up like this, which I actually like much better.  I love it when things like that happen.  Mistakes turn out to be better than the original plan.

It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to quilt it, but I decided on trying my hand at concentric circles continuing the organic feel of the piece (organic in the artistic sense of the word--so not geometric--even though circles.... Well, never mind.)

Those circles are calling my name, so see ya!