Sick Day

That's something we mom's really need to negotiate into our contracts! Just when you've got a pile of things to do, and a dirty house - that's when you get hit by a bug. Of course, I had a ton of quilting I was going to do yesterday, but it's a little hard to free-motion when you have the chills and ache all over. So I opted for a day of rest, hoping to speed my recovery from this nasty bug. I watched Princess Bride twice last night, took some cold medicine and was out for the count! I'm feeling a little woozy this morning, but it's probably just from the medicine. I hope to do a couple of hours of quilting this afternoon - we'll just have to see.

This is the project I am quilting. It's a horizontal layout of the Red Sky at Morning quilt. I made the first one using half square triangles, and had already sewn the leftover triangles into squares, so it was just a matter of arranging the blocks and sewing them into the second quilt. It was so much fun - I would love to do one in blues and greens for an oceanscape feeling. So I suppose I need to start cutting those charm squares from all of my fabric for that one! It's amazing how one quilt leads to another, to another....

I need to go on another quilting binge, the tops are starting to pile up again - I have been re-arranging furniture in my sewing room again, and am dying to try my new setup for machine quilting. I really need to move my shelving, though. I am seriously ready to move the twin bed out of my room, but don't know what to do with it at this point.

It seems that we are busting out at the seams in our house and really need to do some serious purging of stuff (of course none of the sewing stuff goes, that is all essential items!!). Even the garage is overstuffed. I am ready to just rent a dumpster and fling most of it. So much of it is just stuff that we don't want anymore, but can't bear to throw away, and can't find anyone else who wants it. Tomorrow I will definitely call about the dumpster, and also call the paper to put in a free ad for a few things. I've tried using our local freecycle group, but I haven't had much luck getting rid of stuff. I had a bunk bed this spring that I had put on freecycle twice, but ended up selling for $50.00 through an ad in the paper (and could have sold 3 more if I'd had them!) I guess it's one of the pitfalls of living in a smaller community!

I guess I'll get myself moving a little and see if I have the energy to accomplish anything today, at least it's Sunday, so I don't have anything else that I need to do!