Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Summer Sewing Blues

It feels like my blog reader and IG feed are filled with teachers accomplishing massive amounts of sewing on their summer holidays.  So much inspiration!  The situation in my home is the complete opposite.  Summer brings a 75% reduction in my sewing time as my oldest daughter is home full time and the youngest is home 4-5 full days a week.  This has led to some sewing envy and a bit of a funk where I feel like I'm getting nothing done.

To try and alleviate that feeling I snuck downstairs yesterday for 15 minutes to do some more quilting on my String of Luck project.  At the end of my time I figured that it would only take another hour or two to finish up the quilting on this.  Making an end of August finish totally doable!



We traveled last weekend and I brought along my critter sampler to work on in the car.  It's coming along nicely but my goodness fill takes a long time!


Since the Christmas Craft Fair season will be here before you know it (my first show is November 1st!), I've started to work on my inventory.  Some progress on a stack of bibs this week.  And I do  still plan on doing a tutorial for the tie bib.  Just a matter of finding some more hours in my day.  Which may not happen until September.

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced.
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10 comments:

  1. Sarah @ Georgia Girl Quilts14 August 2013 at 05:39

    I love your version for the String of Pearls QAL. I have my top finished and just need to purchase some batting so I can finish up. I can't wait to see yours once it's finished!

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  2. Alisa14 August 2013 at 07:29

    I love the spiral quilting on your String of Pearls quilt!

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  3. Lynette14 August 2013 at 08:17

    Hey, I really love your String of Luck - cool quilting going on there, for sure! Don't let the summer achievers' progress get you down. There are GOBS and GOBS of quilters in your same boat - you just don't see it right now because none of them has time to blog that they don't have time to quilt until school starts again. ;D It's all good - we all have different year-time schedules that allow us greater or lesser sewing times!

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  4. Kleep14 August 2013 at 08:21

    Love the quilting on your quilt. And what a fun pattern!

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  5. Unknown14 August 2013 at 09:29

    Your string of luck quilt and sampler are both wonderful. Hang in there. Kids will be in school soon.

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  6. Vicki14 August 2013 at 09:49

    Your quilting is looking really great! Stealing 15 min here and there will add up.

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  7. Molli Sparkles14 August 2013 at 15:03

    Just save up all that energy so that when you do get time to sew you can make it count! Are those Comma dots on your string of luck quilt?

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  8. Cathy14 August 2013 at 20:58

    Love your quilt! My production is about to slow way down as i go back to work next week!

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  9. Pat16 August 2013 at 12:56

    I love your quilt. I tried to add your blog to my Bloglovin list but it doesn't seem to find you. Do you have any idea why?

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  10. ChristaQuilts29 August 2013 at 08:06

    Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish in just a few minutes here and there? Thanks for linking up!

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