Thank goodness it's Friday. I've been looking forward to Friday after 4:00 all week long. It's been a rough one. I've had worse weeks. Nothing really happened to make it a rough one, it just was. I blame the weather. Do you know we hit 80 degrees and it snowed this week? That's not normal. It's throwing me off I tell you. My back doesn't seem to know how to handle it either. My flowers are still alive though, so all is well enough.
I have the itch to quilt again. It's a terrible itch that I know I will scratch, the question is just how long it takes me to crack. I do have to quilt again. I promised to make a quilt for the Literacy Action Center's auction that they have each year. That's not until September, but it's good to think about this stuff ahead of time. I know exactly what I'm going to do too. It's called a Postage Stamp quilt. It comes down to a quilt of 2x2 squares all over. Every other square is a solid color. It's a fairly simple quilt, but I love how they look. I'll do one of those for them and one for me. I'm thinking that I'll also do one for each of my sister Elizabeth's family too, seeing as how we have them for Christmas this year. Dalyn, Elizabeth's daughter, asked me to make her one last year and I just haven't gotten around to it. I think it would be nice to give her one for Christmas. Then I'd do one for Elizabeth, Matt, Rya, Brantley and Laney too. All lap quilts of course, but they are perfectly sized to snuggle up in front of the TV or with a cup of hot cocoa and a good book. They'd even look nice on a twin-sized bed, though slightly too small to count as the actual blanket. Anywho, I plan on doing all 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 quilts all at once - I think it will be easier that way. The faces should sew up quickly, and the quilting I can do on my machine for all but the one I'm doing for J and I, so each will take about a day to do that too. It's the binding I'm not looking forward to. I hate the binding part. Hurts my fingers. I really should start now so I can get them all done in time.
It's an expensive hobby though, quilting. I like using quality fabric and that stuff is not cheap. Maybe I can find a sale. J really encouraged me to quilt in the beginning, until he saw exactly how much it all cost. A simple lap quilt will run upwards of $100-$150 depending on the backing fabric I chose. That's just the materials. Then to quilt myself doesn't cost me more than power and thread, but if I have someone else quilt it, that's going to cost another $200. It's totally worth it though. I love the look of a quilt. The two king-sized ones I've made are beautiful. So beautiful that we almost never even use them. Dad gave me a quilt rack for Christmas so we do display them, but I love the way the look on the bed too. I need to make one that we're both comfortable sleeping with, letting the dogs play on, that sort of stuff. It's so hard though. So much work, energy and love goes into a quilt. It's hard to offer it up to fate and three girls who in times of anger are willing to pee on it just to get back at you for something.
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