Monday - all day of it! Thoughts and bits and pieces! 03-02-15

The last couple of days, I've been working on my Crazy Quilt.  while I can't say it is all handstitched, I CAN say that the pieces are machine sewn together and that they will have hand embroidered work to finish them.  I can also say that this definitely won't be the only Crazy quilt I will be doing - if only because I have a bunch of scraps that I've been saving of a variety of fabrics (velvets, satins, velveteens, brocades and so on) that will be in the other one - the one I am hopeful of putting family pictures in (including those of folk whose names I have NO idea about!..  THAT one will also have laces, grosgrain ribbon, and so on along with all the decorated stitches as well.

THIS one - the one I'm working on now I am seriously debating whether or not it will become a Springtime vest, or jacket, or not.  It would definitely be a fun thing to do and I may decide that this is the way I will go.  I definitely like the fun blocks I'm working on now!  First step, though is to piece all the fabrics together I want to include in this.  THEN if I decide to go the jacket route (appeals to me the more I think of it!), the next step would be to cut it and to cut out a proper lining for it.  Then to make both the lining and the jacket, then attach the two together.

However, I truly do want to think a bit on this - because the crazy quilt fabric itself will be really stretchy and will need a foundation to keep it from stretching all over the place.  If I use the lining also as a foundation, then that would be attached to the crazy quilt fabric BEFORE the outer garment is sewn together - which can be done - BUT doesn't truly feel like a lining to me, even though there are lots of jackets that are put together just that way.

OR I can just use the all over fabric as the foundation, with the crazy quilt pieces sewn to it and continue onward with the lining done separately then attached after all is done.

Another thought too - my machine has all kinds of fancy stitches to it - and although I've owned it for almost 2 years now, I have yet to do anything other than straight stitching.  This might be a truly good project to learn all about the fancy stitches, particularly if I want to use them to "join" the fabric pieces together in the quilt.
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Other thoughts/ideas/projects - well - back to that one!  I swear that I have a super messy gene!  I had my sewing room pretty well picked up - or so I thought!  I decided to work on my crazy quilt - which meant I had to pull out one of my scrap boxes.  Admittedly I had my ironing board out for easy access - and hadn't put away either the Passover table runner I've been working on, nor the "February UFO Projects" I was SUPPOSED to work on.  So - today I walked in there - and - OMG!  I have a teensy little pathway to use to get to my machine and chair - and had only a 3 square foot of space for that chair - most of which was already taken up by my Widget cat who keeps me company while I sew so that I don't get lost (which today, anyway, was a distinct possibility!).

So - what did I do?  Did I clean the place up?  NO!  I sat myself down, and sewed crazy quilt seams together, picked out fabric from one of the scrap boxes - which, needless to say, has to be put away again, and which has dribbled itself over the edges of the box and on to the floor, cutting down the 3 square foot of space even more!

Oh well - tomorrow's Tuesday - and I can definitely start off with a 20-30 minute pupa (pick up put away, for those who don't know!) then (not that Tuesday has anything to do with it!  It's just that occurs after Monday!)
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I got to babysit Evan again today - actually - unless it's some vacation or other or Lynn is sick - I get to babysit Evan every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and frequently on Thursday as well!
Today he was a bit grumpy - mostly because his teeth are driving him batty and he isn't getting to sleep (he fights sleep like crazy anyway and I swear must pry his eyelids open with toothpicks - he truly hates to sleep!)

LOL - I was singing nursery rhymes to him while cuddling him in my arms and patting to time - and suddenly he snuggled down and cuddled up and just went to sleep!  first time he's done that in a LONG time!  Reminds me of putting my son (Evan's dad) to sleep at about the same age.  I would put Nathan against my chest and pat his back in time with my heart beat - would put him to sleep every time!  But I swore that child would be 95 years old and I would STILL be patting his back in time to my heartbeat to get him to sleep!  Seems to run in families!  LOLOL

Still Evan is an awfully good little guy - just like his dad was and like his aunt Wendy (my daughter) was!  I'm so lucky!
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Re my study schedule - all I have to say is ..... Oh My!  and then tomorrow I will pick up and work on it!  Trouble is - that seems to have been what I have been doing for a while - or at least somewhat. Yes there ARE books I am reading in various subjects - not what is assigned yet - but what has been read.  And there ARE videos I'm watching (ie, How the Earth Was Made) - but I truly do need to work on various assignments (I assign them).  Recently it seems my studies have been all hit or miss - with more miss than hit!  That needs to change!  I do like the side bar though!
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That's enough for now!  Only other thing to discuss at present is the snow - the deep snow!  And I refuse to do that.  Ol' Man Winter does NOT need to be encouraged!  Enough already!