Some Progress

I had hoped to have a completed top for my Cynthia England project before January 1.  That didn’t happen, but I did make a respectable amount of progress given the busyness of the season.  This is what the completed sections look like along with the patterns for the remaining sections.  I estimate that I’m about 88% done.

 

My two amaryllis bulbs have put on a show for me.  The over-achiever I showed in my last post eventually had six blooms on the stalk.

 

My other bulb had fewer blooms but they were showier and the plant reached 31 inches tall.

 

I wish all my blog friends the happiest New Year holiday.

 

 

The Season Is Moving Faster Than I Am

The Cynthia England project is about 76% pieced.  I discovered a bad wrinkle in the middle of a unit and had to correct it.  It was surrounded by so many intersecting seams that I ended up ripping out a portion and restitching using a hand applique stitch.    I’ve found that this project is so intense, that an hour passes before I realize it. 

 

Saturday, I attended a Christmas gathering at a friend’s new home, and took a peek in her stash closet.  I was blown away by how organized she is.  This certainly puts my own space to shame, but I am still working to improve that.

 

One of my amaryllis plants bloomed today.  It must be an over achiever because the packaging it came in said it would bloom in 8 weeks but it has only been 16 days.

 

My Birthday Gift to Me

 

I have wanted better storage in my sewing room for a long, long time.  So, I used my recent (non-landmark) birthday as an excuse to order these two cabinets.  It took hubby and me all afternoon yesterday to put them together.  The assembly instructions consisted of a series of drawings with the only text being the much-repeated warning to delay totally tightening screws until all were in place.

 

Some “colorful metaphors” may have been were employed in the process.  Happily, we finally finished putting them together without destroying them in the process.  I was able to get an overloaded laundry basket of semi-sorted scraps off the floor of my stash closet and there is even some space left.  I also purchased the apothecary style chest sitting on top of them.  Almost all the furniture in my sewing room is now on rollers which is very handy.  At least one corner of the room is tidy.