Sewing Therapy

 The last two days I stayed home. It was for muy needed for my mental health and for those around me! I just needed a break. And along with some strong contemplation of life, here's what my hands were doing while my brain was thinking.

A custom baby quilt for a girl at work

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 I finally finished this one! I only started it in FEBRUARY!

 

Even Calypso liked it

I love new day timer time. It's great. I get excited. It's a little, how do you say...lame?! I get all nostalgic flipping through the old one for dates to put in the new one and seeing all that we did in a year (highlights included my surprise trip to Cuba, my family visiting, getting married and Peru - not a bad year I'd say!) This year after my glorious purchase and careful inputting of important dates and highlighting I made it a special cover too!

 

 

 

 And I made a new iron board cover. It's not pretty (I had no fabric that was long enough or that I wanted to use on such a dinky little project) and it's a little short on the sides (you can't see it in the photo, I'm strategic like that) but it's better than the one we had. Plus it doesn't smell like McDonald's french fries when you iron on it, which is also a pleasant bonus.

 

Here lays my next challenge: I've had this fabric for almost 2 years and today I cut it up into bricks to start a large quilt for our bed. I have a vision in my head let me tell you of how this quilt is going to go down. I knew it was missing something but when I laid it all out I realized it's just down right UGLY and this was not even close to the vision in this little brain. What does one do; give up and find random projects for 120 piece of fabric or ....well, I don't know the or just yet.

YUCK, the longer I stare at it the Uglier it gets. How terrible! Until my next days off I will not look at it again!