How could this possibly have happened? Did I eat Wheaties for breakfast? Actually, I went to a "Hunter's Breakfast" (it was the first day of hunting season) at a little K-8 school that was sort of on the way to our regular monthly Saturday sewing day at Smith Chapel. They had biscuits and gravy, cinnamon rolls, sausage, and bacon. I think it was all the extra bacon that did it.
It started with a pre-printed panel that I purchased at the Kansas City quilt show in June. My neighbor Karen was trying to help me remember when I bought it and she said, "You remember, it was an impulse buy because we were really tired and we liked standing in that booth because they had squishy mats on the floor and our feet hurt, and we stood there long enough that you purchased it." Oh yeah, that was it. Now why didn't I just buy the pattern there too??? Did they not have it? Or was I just too tired to notice there was a cute Pattern? That was probably it. I found the pattern later in the summer at Cuts and Bolts in Chillicothe. So why did it take so long to start it? Probably because the panel got stuffed in the closet and the pattern in a drawer and I had to do some major cleaning out and straightening to find them.............the panel was discovered buried under a mound of batting scraps that were recently sewn together to make a "Frankenbatt" and then a search for the pattern ensued which lead to some organizing of patterns into binders etc., so this really was a WIN!
The panel was purrsonally inspected by the chief inspector and deemed a good project to work on.
The fabric inventory was purrused by the chief inspector and her trusty assistant for just the right fabrics (yes, it's all from the stash), and then the cutting began. Most of the pieces were cut prior to Saturday's sewing day (allowing for some mistakes in both the pattern and by the person cutting which had to be recut on Saturday) and the tree and house blocks were all pieced at the sewing day.
Normally when I get home from a sewing day, all of my stuff sits on the steps waiting to be carried up and put away another day. Somehow, (probably due to the bacon for breakfast), everything was carried up to the sewing room, put away, and I just kept on sewing. Before supper, the top was complete except for the last border. After watching a movie with the hubs (we watched Yesterday, good movie!) and working on a binding for one of the pastor's t-shirt quilts, I went back up to the sewing room finished the last border, and pieced a backing, made the binding, and even got out that previously created Frankenbatt and trimmed it for the batting.
It was getting late, so it was good that I had some supurrvision for trimming the batting. Now, it just needs to be quilted. That may be awhile, so it's all hanging together nice and neat in the closet.
It was a good weekend because on Sunday, I finally got around to cleaning the bathroom (which hadn't been done in over 2 weeks! Yuck!). That's probably why bathroom cleaner has been added to the shopping list.
Christi
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