Friday April 9th was the second sewing night for the Philly Modern Quilt Guild. Since I had yet to finish piecing my Charisma top together, I figured that was the perfect project to take. By the time Friday night was over, I finally started sewing the rows together to complete the top. I am sooo in love with this quilt probably because it’s something for me!
Since I don’t have backing yet for the Charisma quilt, I moved right on to my next project, Julie’s Hexagon Quilt A Long, which I got a sneak peek at during the guild sewing night. I’m using Hunky Dory by Moda. The colors are very cheerful and springy but slightly muted so I’m worried about having good contrast in my blocks. For Christmas Hubby bought me an equilateral triangle template which I thought I would never have a use for until now! He was pretty excited (as excited as a husband can be about quilting) last night when he saw it on the floor and asked me if was actually going to use it. Of course, why else would it be on the floor? I cut the majority of my fabric on the floor. Is that terrible? I don’t have a cutting table and sometimes transporting the cutting mat, fabric, and rotary cutter to the dining room table (which I then have to clear off) just doesn’t seem worth it.
This is only half of the triangles I have cut so far. Can’t wait to sew together my hexagon blocks! After seeing a few different layouts, I think I’m going to go with just one block type (above). Hope you join in on the fun!
I’ve been in a funk lately. This week I have been faced with the realization that school is just too much for me right now. I’m not sure if I’m burn out per say…but I’m ready to be done. So ready…. I am struggling in one of my courses…after only the first week. I am recognizing the fact that it’s more difficult than I had anticipated and that I will actually have to work…make that very hard… to be successful in this course. Normally I push through classes and easily get A’s…. Only two classes away from my degree and I’m struggling. So what’s a girl to do but drop a class…and NOT graduate in June. So sad…and disappointed….I completely stressed over the decision of which class to drop…the easy A or the work really hard for a B (if I’m lucky) class. Stressed so much that I gave myself a migraine. I’m sticking it out in the hard class because I think it will be helpful in my career. So that’s my not happy news….and if I really want to torture myself I can take my last class this summer…on Thursday nights which is generally a traffic nightmare in the city.
With working full time and school this year, I’m thankful that I have a hobby that I find incredibly relaxing. I can work 8+ hours a day, come home and do 2-3 hours of school work, and as long as I get to sew, everything is ok in my world. We may not eat a gourmet dinner or have a very clean house, but I’m happy. Just call first before coming over :)
in the form of a jelly roll…
Plus the Knickerbocker Glory pattern from Jelly Roll Inspirations yielded lots of four patches and a messy work area…
Which will be sewn together on point tonight once I figure out how to arrange my colors!
Lessons learned so far: Quilting under the influence, particularly rotary cutting, is not suggested. Cutting mishaps can occur, but luckily all of my fingertips are in place. I’ll need to figure out a new strategy for the summer since grilling generally involves delicious Blue Moon.
Since I missed Sunday stash…
A few new purchases from Country Quiltworks in North Wales. I needed a yard of Kona solids in ivory for my current project and ended up leaving with this, plus some thread. (Three) Fabrics on the right are Make Life by Sweetwater. My MIL picked it out for the Amy Butler Frenchy Bag pattern. I can’t wait to get started on it…I just hope I don’t love it so much I can’t give it away!
Babylock that is!
I love, love, love it and it seriously sews like a dream!
Look for a full review…once I finish my first project with it!
The past 2 weeks have been a blur. My birthday was during finals week (boo hoo) which was followed by a trip to Jamaica. When you get older birthdays are just like any other day, except people are (usually) a little nicer to you and sometimes give you cake and presents. This year, my mom made me a yummy birthday dinner and Hubby brought an awesome St. Patty’s day themed strawberry shortcake for dessert.
Hubby got me a new camera which takes amazing pictures. We weren’t supposed to get each other birthday gifts this year…which I of course followed, but he didn’t. So I wasn’t expecting a gift, but when I went up to bed there was a camera on the tv with a cute little bow. He’s so sweet!
After finals were over, we packed up and flew to Jamaica for 5 days. We stayed at the Sunset Beach Resort in Montego Bay. It was amazing…and so warm and sunny every day. The food was so-so but everything else was great!
View from the restaurant where we ate breakfast each morning.
View of the beach….each day was this gorgeous!
