- My kids are happy, getting better grades than they have in years, and are more involved in school than ever before.
- My husband is super happy with his new job.
- My dog, Biscuit, is getting around better ever since I started adding organic turmeric to his food and started taking him for long walks (can't just let him out anymore)
- My job is challenging and exhausting, but rewarding.
- My job includes 3 meals a day for my entire family, so I haven't cooked in months (best perk EVER!!)
- I have seen my mom and sisters more in the last three months than I have in the last 3 years combined.
- I've been able to get a bit of knitting done - currently working on mittens for myself since winter is coming.
And today, I sewed!!!
Not everything is perfect. Our employer-supplied housing is nice, but MUCH smaller than I am used to. I haven't even been able to bring all of my fabric and yarn into the apartment, let alone unpack it. My home office is serving triple duty as a guest room and a sewing room, which means it is cramped and untidy and not all that conducive to doing anything. HOWEVER, today I started reading one of my new Amish Quilt Shop mysteries, and that made me want to quilt, so I hauled the ironing board and iron down from the laundry room and reached into a drawer to pull out a UFO (heaven knows I have plenty to choose from!).
I pulled out a project for which I had already assembled most of the blocks and had done all of the cutting and just needed assembly. I got it to the place where it is all in rows now, and I'll sew on the setting triangles and sew the rows together tomorrow. I don't have a purpose for this, but I guess it would make a nice, low volume baby quilt. I used a charm pack that someone had given me along with some Kona Snow. The pattern is Breezy Buntings from Moda Bake Shop, although I modified the pattern to make mine smaller because the charm pack didn't have enough fabric to make the quilt as designed.
It felt SO GOOD to hear the hum of the sewing machine and smell the warm fabric as I pressed it. Why have I let so much time pass since the last time I sewed??
