The weather was truly beautiful this weekend…hints of warmth, but cool enough that you might need a sweater at times. Beautiful blue skies, birds singing everywhere, some wispy clouds in the sky…definitely Spring-like. I wish I’d spent more of it outside, but that was the way the weekend went.
I had a huge mess going on in the office/studio…
So I spent time on Saturday trying to get it under control.
I can’t start ironing for a new quilt without putting everything away…I stacked up all the loose fabrics by color and started organizing…
Kitten did not help…
She never does.
Then I went off to meet a friend for pottery painting…and wine…
Very relaxing…came back home and headed out for dinner. There really is no excuse for making my wine green.
Seriously. It wasn’t even St. Patrick’s Day. We came home and put a movie on and I tried to bust out this monster binding that I have not been working on…
I realized I hadn’t finished a quilt yet this year, and that never happens. It’s March! I should finish something. So I’m going to. But not Saturday night…Satchemo was so happy to have both of us on the couch…
He can be a very needy beast.
Now it’s ready for ironing. That table is clear, the ironing board is clear…pretty good.
But there were things to grade and stuff to do…here’s where I sat down and figured out the week…
Someone should clear off the table…again.
Eggshell pieces on the front porch…I haven’t seen any expectant parents around there…
Who knows what happened.
So we had a play to go to in the afternoon, but I wanted all this ready to go for when I came back…drawing hung, boxes of pieces ready to sort.
Background fabric ready to match…oh wait, after dinner, more stitching…
I finished all the binding and one sleeve…just one to go. This thing is huge. Then I graded for a while. I can’t NOT grade right now. Finally though! Into the studio and sorted the first hundred pieces…
It’s all dirt and rocks…
I made a run of 8 for the dirt, plus some other stuff that was in there…roots and a hole or two. Then on to the rocks…
Five different grays for the rocks…
I made it through most of the first 100 pieces…only 700 to go.
I guess I can hope I’ll be done ironing by the weekend. I think it’s unlikely, due to three nights out this week…but I can hope. This is one of my favorite parts, that’s for sure. So I’m going to be putting in some hours on it.
Kitten guarding my space…
But first, I’m going to school and hopefully having a much better day than Friday. Because I might notionally in my head sacrifice someone to the science goddess otherwise. Not really. But seriously, they can’t be as braindead as they were on Friday (sure, they could be worse…). Deep breaths. Positive thoughts. It’s still a gorgeous day. Revel in it.
Kathy Nida 
Sounds like a great weekend. You gotta have a little fun sometimes.
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