A rough week.

Last week I didn't feel the best, not sure why. I could blame the weather I suppose. It's been hot and cold and rainy and stormy and generally unsettled. I had a couple of quilting jobs to do for a friend, and I'd come home so wiped out all I could do was have a nap and try to recover. When I have a late afternoon nap I'm usually up later than I intend, so I sleep in, and I'm tired all day, and then I have another nap and perpetuate the bad routine.

When I'm up late I often do some last minute sewing, trying to make the last bit of the day productive. For some reason I fixated on these black and cream chain blocks from February 24.

They'd been kitted up waiting since May 24, and I had no interest in finishing them, but they jumped to the head of the queue for some reason. Mereth hates it when I get stuck on my duty sewing, she says it's so boring to come visit and there's no change to my design wall. But I persevered and now I have 26 blocks ready to sell. 

I think they'd be great to frame machine embroidered blocks, or hand embroidery in black or red. Or applique. Must not get involved on any of that, my saner self tells my Inner Squirrel.

I could pat myself on the back for taking another thing off the WIP list, except that I started another one immediately. I was sorting through some orphan blocks and found these 2 from 2012. 

I made a quilt I  called This And That from my scraps, and these 2 were spares. 

I remembered that they were so much fun to make, they solved my 2.5" scrap overflow and the quilt they made was one of my favourites. I had just weeded all the small strips out of the 2.5" drawer, so I cut piles of them into squares and triangles for this. So I had 37 WIPs, down to 36, and now back up to 37. I'm starting to think it's just not humanly possible to eliminate all the UFOs.

Working my way through the archive of tops that I've completed and sold:

Ladder Star, another of Bonnie's patterns. This was made entirely from my plaid stash, and unfortunately it only dented it, not eliminated it as I'd hoped. I overcut of course, so now I have a kit with enough squares and triangles for a Sawtooth Star top. Must try harder not to overcut.....