Contrary to popular belief I am still
around and thoroughly enjoying sewing a crafting as much as I can. I started a
new BOM at my LQS that I love. I will have pics of this to come soon. I
have worked on my beautiful rainbow baby jane, and started hand quilting a baby
quilt for my cousin with Perle cotton. I will definitely be sharing these two
projects in the near future.In my personal life: The last couple of
months have been strange. I have been sick with pneumonia, and schooling my 5
year old in kindergarten (yes I also work full-time, crazy yes! but so worth
while!).
I also came to the realization that I
need to change jobs. This has been a hard decision for me. I have been with my
current job for almost 9 years, and even though I love the folks I get to work
with, I DO NOT love the company anymore. Some changes are occurring and the
stress is more than any 10 people should handle. So I have been job searching
which is no easy task in this economy. I am not sure if I want to stay in my
field, but I do know that a change would be scary but good for me right now. Do
you ever have on of those moments of revelation that just kinda slap ya in the
face???
Well, they have not just been
in my personal life, I have even had revelations in my sewing life too. This
little block was a tough one. It belongs to my rainbow baby Jane quilt that I
started hand piecing back in July. I started working on it so energized, it was
my first triangle block, and then I quickly hit a wall. None of the pieces
seemed to make sense, they wanted to move around on me, I just could not seem
to get this one right. I was contemplating having to machine piece the
triangular blocks, (oh! I really did not want to do that, but this one was
throwing me for a loop!)
So, I put the whole project away for
a few weeks, I got so frustrated with myself that I could not even stand to
think of the project. Then my wonderful pinterest friends started posting
new blocks and rows of their rainbow Baby Jane quilts , and the bug returned. I
think I might blame some of it on the fight with pneumonia I was having this
week and I wanted to feel that I accomplished something....
So i looked at it,
slapped myself on the head, not too hard I promise, and screamed BASTING
STITCHES! (Yes, I did concern my husband with the scream, but he already thinks
I have lost it by hand piecing these little blocks!) So if you look closely in
the photo a few my basting stitches are still there...and I got the block
completed!
Do the happy dance! Then that led to
these two beauties.
Please
do not adjust your computers for this block. The melons are two different
sizes. I am so tempted to redo this block, but at the moment I am going to
leave it and try to take Brenda's stance that Done is better than perfect! It
is also a block I completed while battling pneumonia this week. We may call it
the pneumonia, drug affected block.
I am really proud of it and I enjoy piecing
these blocks, even if I do seem crazy.
So have any of you had revelations
recently? What have projects have you been working on? I would love to hear
from you all! I will share more real soon....after good ole pneumonia goes
away!
