Pandemic Sew-In

Are you bored being "stuck" at home?  I want to say, "Get over it!," but that is not fair.  There are many who go to work everyday to provide for their families and don't have time to learn how to keep busy at home.  I remember that all I wanted to do when I got home from work was to put up my feet and have a good book handy.  Well, we are all learning a somewhat different way of life.

I am retired and have lived a life of busy-ness having raised a large family with lots of different hobbies.  I love sewing and always have, so I am keeping busy with sewing-related activities and some genealogy when I want to sit down at the computer.  The bed in my sewing room is a fertile place for the growth of fabric stacks, but I foiled that problem and put each piece of fabric to bed in it's assigned box out in my "Sewing Shed."  No room in the house to store fabric.

My second table topper is coming along nicely.  I am extremely pleased with the quilting.  I stitched every seam in the ditch and that makes the FMQ go so much easier.  No accidental pleating, but how did I miss that one seam, 1 1/2 inches long?  How did that thread in the topstitiching get cut?  That meant taking out about six inches to tie knots and restitch.  How did I forget to topstitch all those points?  Well, that is the way of it I guess.  Another day or two and I will be ready to bind it.

We had some gorgeous weather, which was great for laundry.  I don't have a dryer and my washing machine is in the garage (now a "guest cottage") with no water in the winter.  On the warm days DH turned on the water and I washed everything that ever thought of getting washed and hung it out on the line to soak up the sunshine.  Easter Sunday it snowed all day and plans to continue off and on throughout this week.  In view of the pandemic I do not want to go to the Laundromat so we are being judicious about the clothes we wear so we can make it to the next bout of sunshine.

We live in a community with lots of retired people.  Senior morning at the grocery store was a bust.  Way too many Seniors there and it was a mob.  The good side is that the virus curve is flattening here and we have had no virus so far in our little town high in the mountains.  I hope you are all doing well.  Thank goodness for quilting.  At least we know how to keep busy and have fun while we are sequestered to avoid this nasty virus.

Sew some happy seams this week.  I wish you time to catch up, to enjoy your family, and to accomplish some quilting.  Stay safe and wash your hands.