Taking It Easy

 I've been good about not stressing my hands with too much work, and I think my wrist is much better. I put a new blade in my rotary cutter and cautiously cut some pieces, with no problems. Then another night I sewed all those pieces together; I ironed them in another session, and last night I trimmed them. 

That wasn't comfortable, so I had to take a break between each set, but I got them all done. I think the message there is to stick to pushing pieces through the machine for another few days, before I go back to cutting. I see people on YouTube videos cutting with left and right hands, and that impresses me no end. If I tried that I'm sure I'd either wreck my fabric and cutter, or I'd need lots of bandages afterwards.

I'm only making one quarter of the units for Bonnie's mystery, and it's much more enjoyable than stressing about how to get them all done in time for the next clue. The half rectangle triangles in this last clue were a doozy; I kept tripping up on the bit that said, stack right sides up, rather than right sides together. Habits of a lifetime are hard to break, so I had a few miss-cuts.

And then I didn't have enough fabric to cut more, so I have two sets that look like this. I'm definitely not going to stress about that. It's a scrap quilt.

We have a spell of hot weather predicted for this week, so I need to tidy up my workroom so I can hide there in the AC. What I think will happen is that I'll go to tidy up the string piecing, decide to just make a few more blocks to whittle down the strings, and then I'll be totally side-tracked and no tidying will happen. I must try and resist that scenario.