The Recent Past and the Near Future

Well, since school has started we have gone through 2 rounds of sickness. In between those times I have been traveling to my sister's home to quilt. I do have a sewing machine, but it was pulling the batting through. K. has one and that was scrunching the material. So I made the trip as often as I could (about 2 times per week - it's about 1/2 hour drive one way).

I am in the final stages of finishing J.'s quilt! Finally! This project has taken several years, but it is just gorgeous and I am very well pleased with it. I am so excited for him to see it! He knows nothing about it and will be very surprised...I hope!

Previously I had done tie quilts. I still like them, but WOW I have totally discovered that quilting can make such a huge impact to the overall appearance of the quilt afterwards.

I will post pics of the completed project when I am done. I'm very excited to share the pics with all of you!

My next quilt (for me) will probably be a jean rag quilt. Wendy made K. one and it is deliciously heavy. Wendy will have to walk me through the process of that one as it is very different than what I am used to doing!

I do believe that K. and I will be doing some sewing though this week as she is working on her quilt, which looks totally awesome.

On the days when I'm not at Wendy's, and the children are healthy, I am usually taking the cello into school (it's not allowed on the bus), doing laundry, going VT, running errands, cleaning etc. The days go by so quickly!

Pretty soon I hope to work on addressing Christmas cards (which I haven't done in several years). I have been procrastinating as I recently lost many of my addresses. They're probably somewhere in the house, but where?

I also need to work on Christmas shopping. I have barely scratched the surface of this one!

Now you know what I've been doing and what I will be doing in the near future.