Pressing On

The Mistress is back in action! I currently have blocks pieced and pinned for two quilts. I literally spent an entire Friday evening pressing seams for a split rail and a triangle into squares charm quilt. Whoops, I inadvertently let you know that I am a geek with no social life. Ah well, anyway, mad piecing plans continue at my house. As long as the blocks stay in their respective quilts, I think we’ll be good. If all goes well, I’ll have two quilt tops done by the next Stitch n Bitch and will move on to cutting hexies.

Happy new year!

No resolution here, I know myself well enough to know that placing long term irrational goals just makes me stubborn. I do have some hopes though. I got some lovely responses from recipients of my last minute quilts of 2012. I can only hope the 2013 recipients are half as pleased. I hope to learn a few need skills (more on at least one of those in a minute) and practice some old ones. I hope to continue to find fun and enjoyment playing with fabric. I don't think any of those hopes are irrational.

So the Mistress is back from the shop. Sadly she went straight into the garage due to holiday guests. A little antsy about that. Turns out that quilting, in any form (planning, cutting, piecing, etc) is as much a part of my stress management plan as exercising and time with my girlfriends is. And when I don't do that, I can feel the anxiety lapping at my ankles. So to combat the anxiety, I've been planning the next three quilts. I was indulging in some retail therapy and found a darling jelly roll of the new My Sister and Me "Ticklish". Perfect for a split rail I want to make for a darling little 4 year old I know. It is pinned and ready to go as soon as I can rescue my machine. When I got as far as I could with that, I spent some Christmas $$ and downloaded some new patterns. I have a bunch of red charms from a swap that I wasn't really attached to, so I decided to make a semi-traditional red and white quilt and donate it. Charm friendly half triangles, also all cut and ready to start sewing. I actually need more red squares, but can't get to my stash right now either. having all this "free" time over the holidays and not being able to sew is tough! The last planned quilt involves finally using some Kate Spain "Good Fortune" that I bought a year ago. Quilt Sampler swears that it is easy to machine piece hexagons, so I am going to try it. It involves inset seams, but I am refusing to acknowledge any degree of difficulty because I just received my new hexagon ruler and it looks fun!

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