Projects

I have had the entire week between Christmas and New Years off.  And I have done exactly nothing, except grow a loveseat out of my backside.  Okay I did do the filing and I got my hair cut but other than that, not much.  Just sitting by the fire, reading and relaxing.

Not that I had plans exactly but I’m feeling a little panicked now that the work week is looming that I didn’t use my time wisely.  I’m wishing I had started one of those projects where you need a few uninterrupted days to make headway on it.  That is a luxury I don’t get very often and now here I’ve blown my chance.  Oh well.  No sense crying over missed opportunities. 

I find that I’m the kind of person that needs a plan or I get distracted.  Even *with* a plan I get distracted.  Just watch me walk purposefully into a room only to start picking up a stack of magazines, have something in one of them catch my eye and then I’m online searching for whatever that thing was.  Original purpose totally forgotten. 

What I would really like to start working on is my February table topper.  I have this plan of having a different quilted table topper for each month of the year.  I have four so far.  Only one of which I have actually made myself.  The others were commissioned.  I have my April one – pales pinks, greens and yellows.  I have a red, white and blue 30’s reproduction one for July, another 30’s reproduction one for September (the colors remind me of the old elementary school primers) and I have a Halloween one for October – also in 30’s reproduction fabrics.  My, I am a fan of the 30’s aren’t I?

I have the fabric for three more ~ pale blue and cream fabrics for January.  Red and white for February.  And some lovely sage green, reds and white for a Christmas one.   I’ve put a  moratorium on buying any more fabric until I get at least two of them completed.

The beauty of table top sized quilts is that they are fairly easy and quick to assemble.  I can even manage to machine quilt them myself if I don’t want anything too fancy.  The perfect size is about 48-50" square and most baby quilts are about that size to it’s easy to find patterns.

So that’s my goal for January – to have one completed.  If I haven’t posted anything on the subject by mid month someone call me on it.