A Day’s Work

Sometimes, actually maybe most of the time, I come to the end of a day and reflect upon how little I accomplished. A whole group of hours have gone by, hours I spend on non-stop activity, and yet I have little or nothing to show for it. It’s amazing, really, how a morning can slip into an afternoon, then afternoon becomes evening in a blink and then suddenly the whole thing is over and done with.

Yesterday however, I overcame the rushing of the minutes and completed an entire project. I made a quilt!

Now before you give me too much credit, it was a quick and dirty quilt. There was no piecing involved at all. I’ve been clearing out the fabric stash to sell or give away a few things and came across two yard long lengths of coordinating train printed fabric. I was going to give them away but RM fell in love. She carried the fabric pieces around for days; draping them over her shoulders or using them to “tuck in” various dolls and stuffed animals.

I started off yesterday morning with the fabric freshly washed and ready for ironing. Throughout the course of the day I plugged away at it. I ironed. I laid them out with a sheet of cotton batting. RM handed me safety pins to join it all together. I machine quilted around the panels of pictures with thread colors pulled from the trains. I stitched on a store bought binding, getting it only a little wonky since RM found it so hilarious to to yank on the free end and drape it over her shoulders.

“We” finished it up just before bedtime. RM is delighted with her “Choo choo blanket.” It may not be a proper quilt, but it gets the job done. It’s just the thing to cozy up with now that the nights are blissfully cool again.

September 13th, 2007 Posted by Tracy | This "Is" My Life, Sewing | 2 comments