On Saturday we did not end up going to see the bison after all. The preserve was much farther away than I thought and my husband had to work later than planned. I was much more disappointed than the children. I think I am feeling much more emotional lately than normal - I'll blame it on pregnancy hormones for now - and Saturday afternoon I needed a break, some sort of release.
Completely mindless sewing was that release. For over an hour I sewed together selvages that I had saved for the last year or two. I just placed the finished selvage edge over a raw selvage edge and top stitched. No thinking except to sort by color.
It was so nice. I loved being able to dig though the box of selvages and see so many "old friends" from different projects over the last two years. Right now I plan to make them into a spool quilt kind of like
this one - but a different layout. Anyway, after some mindless sewing I felt much better about life.
Yesterday, after a frustrating morning, more mindless sewing was in order. I started with a bunch of 5 inch squares and some gray strips and just started sewing them together, cutting them apart and sewing them back together again. Then I surrounded the monster I had made in white. I think it is one of the ugliest things ever.
It looks like a coffin from this angle. Maybe I'll call it "Death by Quilting." ;) The poor unfortunates at QuiltCon are going to receive this as a
block submission.
Will it make it into the raffle quilt? No.
Be featured on the Modern Quilting Blog? No.
Thrown out? Yes, if they are wise. :)
But it helped me relax and feel better after a busy, stressful morning, so it did it's job and that's what is important.
