After a brief period of calm, things are starting to go haywire again. Most of it is completely out of my control, but I keep letting it eat at me. The worst things are that the post office has misplaced a box of quilts and Mom is sick again. So far they haven't been able to figure out what is wrong.
I haven't done any sewing other than what I showed in Monday's OMG post. I am about halfway done stitching down the binding on that quilt.
I am trying to finish off the last quilts of the year. I have 8.5 quilts to quilt and eight to bind.
Here are the quilts I've worked on since last week.
First up is Deb's, quilted with Pumpkin Seeds. It came out so cute.
Next is Teah's, quilted with Arches.
Cynthia's quilt is quilted with Graceful Vines. Fun aside: she already made this quilt once before with the same patterns and fabrics, but she gifted it, so she recreated it.
I finally finished up all the bindings on Pat's quilts.
I quilted Cosmos on Hannah's quilt.
Marsali requested Thread Garden for this one.
My quilt, quilted with Lovely Loops.
Jeri's quilt, quilted with Cactus Flower.
I'm slowly working on Cindy's mom's quilt. They finally decided on Blackbird for the quilting. There's some fullness, so I would not generally recommend this type of quilting design for this situation. You'd generally want to use something like Ground Cover, Oil Spill, Identity, or even stipple that has a lot of curvy movement back and forth in smaller areas. I did what I could. I hate when I can't make it perfect or perfect-adjacent.
Another of Jeri's, quilted with Love Blooms. We're having fun with different styles of designs in this group of her quilts.
You can stop reading here if you're only interested in the quilting.
I have managed to get outdoors a few times this week. Between work and the mostly lousy weather, it's been a challenge. I was really surprised to see this lone clematis bud on a mostly dying back plant.
We had a couple great sunsets. My husband captured this photo.
We got a chuckle from this license plate.
On Thursday night I sat through the fourth installment of the county planning board meetings regarding the lack of sidewalks in our neighborhood. The developer's family finally filed for the plat amendment to strike out the language requiring the sidewalks and street trees. The board debated it yet again. They took public comments. There was a tense moment when one of my neighbors spewed legalese and dubious statistics apparently in favor of sidewalks? I don't think he's even attended any of the other meetings. 😳🙄 Thankfully another neighbor got up and spoke in calm tones against the sidewalks. In the end, they voted 6-1 in favor of striking the sidewalk requirement. So I guess we're done?
After the meeting and after dinner, we went for a walk with our friend. By this time it was pretty dark out. We noticed that there seemed to be some flames or at least a fire-like glow coming from the stubby road up by the new construction. We walked up there and there was a vehicle none of us recognized. The guy led with "I'm a property owner and I'm not doing anything wrong." He claimed it was a nice night so he was enjoying some "embers". It was odd. I ended up texting the property owner to let him know someone had a what appeared to be a fire on the road next to his new driveway. He came out and made the guy leave. Yes, I'm the nosy neighbor.
We went back up there a couple days later and sure enough, there were ashes all over the road. So weird.
The menfolk surprised me with a new-to-us computer to upgrade from our failing 2019 Mac. This one is a 2021, but super, super fast with more bells and whistles. The transfer from one computer to the next took all night. The next morning, I could not access any of our Office products (where much of my business stuff resides) because our license was too old. Panic ensued. We purchased an updated license and I could not get it to activate. After my son got home from school, he got it activated in minutes doing the same things I tried. I guess I'm old now.
Well, if you made it down here, thanks for listening/reading. I'll try not to be such a downer next week. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, my wish for you is to spend it with people you care about.
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