I'm paying for it now

After a fun weekend working on a charity quilt at the library with other members of the guild, I decided that this week I WILL work on my Christmas quilt... Hubby wasn't supposed to have any appointments so I could stay in my jammies and just quilt away; his weight has gone up ( which means his body is collecting fluids - most probably around his heart which is not good) and he now has to go in for blood work on Thursday morning and then we'll see if he has to go back in to the dr again sooner than planned.

Anyway... yesterday, I put a border onto the latest doll quilt and cut from the same fabric, the backing fabric and binding.  It's bigger than I want to work on using my domestic machine, so it's waiting it's turn with Mo'e.  Then, I continued working and completed my Hollyhock wall hanging doing more quilting than I had thought it would need.  I'm happy with it.

After that, I did two of the Christmas Countdown BOD blocks... I should have done three to catch up, but I just couldn't do any more.

 had an 'oops' moment again.... caught it, though, and fixed it.

About noon today, it was time to 'bite the bullet' and get back to quilting my Christmas quilt. I traced and stitched the rest of the snowflakes on the top border, then decided to do lattice type work in the narrower inner borders... and I'm lovin' it despite the 'oops' at the end ( I don't think most people will notice it).  On to the first row of the inner section... stitched around the snowmen ... doing piano keys in the outer borders and stitching around the trees and adding snowflakes in the larger borders as I go, along with continuing the lattice in the narrower inner border.  Then comes the second row of the inner section... reindeer... have 5 of the 9 stitched around - by then, it was almost six o'clock in the evening and I just couldn't stand any longer, but had to run/drive over to Walmart to pick up script and a few other things ( used motorized cart in the store, thank goodness).

Sharpie markers are becoming my new friends... I'm using off white Glide thread in the top ( and 'whatever'  - odds & ends in the bobbins.  The top thread was really showing around the reindeers' noses so I used the markers to change the color of the stitches.  Can you see the backing fabric up at the top of the pic?  I LOVE it... found it at one of our local quilt shops and just knew that I had to use it on this quilt.

Tomorrow, I'll be three behind on my BOD's - again... will try and get them done before I even think about going back to longarming.  The latest BOM from Shabby Fabrics arrived over the weekend, too, so I'll have that to do, too, although I have almost a month before the next one arrives.

I'm SUPPOSED to be working on last year's Amish with a Twist BOM, too.  It's my #6 on my UFO list and that's the number for this month.... only 8 days left.  ARGHHH!!  I can do this; I know I can! -- well, I think I can.  

TTYL