Wednesday, January 22, 2020
AbSEWlutely Great Mystery
Quilting for me is the love of the process and not about getting the end product as fast as I can. I love the feel of the fabric, the sound of the machine, the heat of the iron, pinning when needed and the design board first look at a block. I love the quiet of the sewing studio with the color of fabric surrounding me. I love the sound of the rotary cutter or the Accuquilt cutter as I take in the design in the first stages. One of the reasons I love doing the Bonnie Hunter quiltville.com mystery quilt each year is it gives me time with each part, time with color, time with cutting, time with sewing and time with design. I don't feel rushed to get each part done in the week but love getting what I can of that part and know I will have to maybe come back to it to complete. This year with Frolic I pretty much kept up. My main goals of getting the new hip (now 7 weeks in) stronger each day; love my gym and trainer for the workouts and making sure I take it somewhat less busy (yea like I can do that). But I do use the hip as somewhat of a reason to spend hours in the sewing studio working on Frolic in that it keeps me out of trouble with breaking the hip protocols. The grabber also in the sewing studio keeps me from bending over when I drop things (OK so maybe I bend over...don't tell my doctor). I now have 10 of the 25 main blocks done...here is the first one that hit the design wall. There is still time to go to the Bonnie Hunter Quiltville site and get the pattern for this wonderful quilt.
#frolicmystery #quiltville
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That's quite the complicated block. There are 25 of these? As for your description of time in the sewing room, yes yes YES! All those things are what lull me into a state of peace when I'm working in mine, not the rush to completion but every little bit of the process. As for the hip recovery, I understand how important it is to keep up with the workouts under a trainer but during times when I've had to do PT for various complaints, I start to resent not the PT itself, but the chunk of time it takes out of my schedule. It's so good for what ails ya, but it IS a time sucker!
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