A Monumental Quilting Weekend

Given that I spent pretty much all weekend in my pyjamas, (a passive aggressive response to having way too much structure in my life this week due to a return to work)  I felt obligated to be productive while wearing said pyjamas and my two choices were sewing or doing housework. I chose the former.  I was primed from my Friday Night Sewing Party with Little Miss Sunshine so the sewing party just rolled into Saturday and Sunday.  Part-ayyyyyyy Weekend. It's been a long time since I've done that.

The Christmas Coin quilt top got finished. Yep. Done.

I started and finished my top for the FM Quiltalong over at A Few Scraps. Can you spot my grievous error? Thank goodness this is a practice piece.

Then I pieced a back for the Quiltalong , again not without minor incident (some unsewing was necessary)  

I made the binding for my circles quilt , and machine sewed that on. I'm hand sewing the binding to the back, and since I have never hand sewn a binding in my life you might  be waiting for a very long time to see this one finished. I'm trying a different way of binding this time in an attempt not to hate my finished binding efforts so much. Let's hope it works. I'm in love with this quilt and I think it's the best quilt  I've ever done. Just sayin'.

I felted a pink  jumper I was about to take to Goodwill  and I came up with an idea  for this crocheted shawl that I picked up from the op shop recently for the bargain price of $2.00. I also wondered when all this inspired thought I've been having lately will disappear.

On top of that I managed to have the Pyjama's clan  over for dinner tonight (and yes I do need  a bigger dining  table )

and I went  to Ikea today to get my new computer room shelves, which are now assembled and being used. Life is sweet!

A Sewing Party for Two

So it was back to work for me this week, but I was organised and decided I would sew every night for at least 30 minutes. Life Balance.  I set goals. I dreamed of my own amazingness, and I thought of the gloating type post I could write about my brilliance this weekend as I showed off photographic evidence of my glorious crafty achievements.

Sewing never happened....

Monday I was shattered from going back to work, I dont recall any of Tuesday, Wednesday I had a friend over for dinner, and Thursday I was in the house ON MY OWN, so I slid up and down the halls in my socks and undies ala Tom Cruise in Risky Business , licked the icing off a cake and talked to Marg for three hours on the phone.  

Friday night I was determined to get something done, so   I emailed Marg and suggested we do a sew in for two and email each other pictures of our progress hourly to keep ourselves motivated. And it was FUN!

So little by little, this 

became this...

and then this 

I went to town with my rotary cutter on this

And in the end it all became this...

I'm hoping to keep up the momentum today ...right after I do the housework and washing because we're out of clean underpants and I got chased by a dust bunny the size of a cat in my hallway this morning.

Have a fabulous Friday/Saturday!