So, I spent a little time cleaning, no – more like straightening up in the sewing room. All while sipping a martini. How cool is that? Put some stuff away. Thought about tomorrow’s meeting. Need to get up early for a bone scan. My mind is pretty unfocused, as it often is after finishing a big project.

I don’t really know what to do in the border of the winter quilt so I guess I’ll do the little bit of quilting that’s left on that and ponder that some more. Then, I need to ((eeks)) fuse that fern down. Can’t believe I’ve been too chicken to take an iron to it. Oh wait. I was waiting to hear back from Mickey Lawler about the fabric for a possible border. Guess I don’t really need it.

Oh this is silly. My head is totally rambling and my fingers are going along with it.

The NYQuilts! raffle quilt quilting is DONE. Finished at 6:30 tonight, took an extra spin around the edges to sew everything down in preparation for pat putting on the binding. Then I trimmed off all but about an inch of batting and backing.

Looks pretty darn good.

So now if someone says “how long did it take you to quilt that?” I can say without a glimmer of doubt – a week. One week. Seven days. And not 20 hour days either. Sometime I’ll have to actually get a way to figure out machine running time or me sitting at the sewing machine time, but in the meantime…… a week. full time. For a queen-size quilt.

God Speed all the people who take in quilts to quilt for others. It’s good that I do a raffle quilt etc every once in awhile to remind me how much work it is, when it’s not my own. 12+ bobbins and counting.

The good news? I’ve turned the corner onto the last long, wide border. The bad news – it’s about 8 more square feet of quilting. That’s a lot of spirals! LOL

The especially bad news for anyone else is that there’s no doubt in my mind that I can’t do another one of these. I am basically falling down on my responsibilities as President/Queen of NYQ! because I can’t get ahead of jobs I take on that are well within the abilities of others. I MUST not do another raffle quilt if I really intend to progress the organization, do fund raising etc. There’s too much going on in my life. I need to get a real job, straighten out my own messes and do what the president/queen is supposed to do. That means, among other things, NOT doing jobs that others should be doing.

On a different note. STILL no callback from Apple, which is really discouraging. No email from Dan, no phone or email from the person that I’m supposed to contact. What the heck is that all about?

Next break, I better have the ads in front of me.

Que Sera, Sera.

Everyone sing along now. You know you want to!, LOL

Still quilting on the NYQuilts! raffle quilt. The benefits of doing group projects are really eluding me tonight. Be strong! Be strong! Just do it! Speaking of Nike, how about that Tiger Woods today? Strange but true, golf is good tv to quilt by. Plus I have to look up for the putts. That was some great sudden death playoff for SURE.

In the meantime though, it’s back to the quilting for me.

I guess I’m over the original panic whilest quilting on the NYQuilts! raffle quilt. If you want to tag along in the process go here. I think it’s coming along quite well. I’m in a hurry only because I need to finish two of my own quilts for the same show in October and the rest of the grant quilts for the first show in November! eeeks. Oh yeah, and start a new job.