Furious as in whirlwind, not anger. I managed to get this top done in three sessions of morning sewing. It went together very quickly and the results are good. The pattern is easy to cut and put together, the hardest part was getting random-ness and no two same prints touching. I see in the picture that there is one block that needs to be turned. I still have fabric left over from the pumpkins, but I used all but three squares from a layer cake, and a yard of 108 wide white that I had hanging about. I didn’t have enough All Hallows Eve scraps for this top, so those are still on tap for another pattern. This mix is from Stacy lest Hsu, Holiday Essentials, cute and not too spooky, no witches or monsters. I am going to cut the pieces from the kit that the pattern came with today. The fabric line is from Maywood – Harvest Gatherings, but I can’t see the name of the designer. It is more fall themed and rusty reds with green and yellow. Much more sedate than skulls, cats and bats.

The light house is growing stripe by stripe. I am falling behind on this BOM, the next one will arrive tomorrow. I still like the project, just wish I was a faster stitcher sometimes. I keep seeing new things and want to start something different, but I know once I put this away, it’ll be a while before I want to do more with it. As long as it is set up and ready to go, I will sit and stitch.

The sweater back is growing, I finished the duck row last night. I noticed a feather out of place, damn, I may go back and fix it. I am disliking knitting this flat, purling the color changes is taxing. I would much rather stitch in the round and steek it. Should have thought of that to begin with. I will chalk it up as practice, I don’t like it, but I need to do it and it is small.

The diaper bag is 98% done too. The binding needs to be secured inside. The pattern calls for doing it by machine, but I had enough trouble wrestling the thing through the machine to attach it in the first go round. It is a fairly heavy bag, might just be that all the hardware and extra straps are in/on it. It is a nice looking bag, if I do say so. I also made the changing pad to go with it. I had to re-do the Velcro three times to get it right, and the end result isn’t perfect, but functional. I wanted to make a bag that could be used and abused, and still look nice. The heavy weight chambray seems like it will do nicely. I remember the diaper bag that we used for my three kids, it was made from nylon, like a back pack, indestructible. I wonder what happened to it.

I’v been toying with the idea of cleaning my sewing studio. Purging some of the magazines and such. I have no clean/organized flat surfaces besides around my machine, which is alarming to me. Messy, and cluttered, but I know where everything is LOL. I’ll start small, maybe the top of the book shelf. Certainly needs a dusting at least.

Be Kind.