These past four days have been a whirlwind of activity for two reasons, my Dh is away and I am going away in a few days. I am itching to start something new, but instead, I am prepping for when I get back. I have been loosely following the 2025 Declutter Challenge at Just Get It Done Quilts , I say loosely because I haven’t really done any purging of stuff other than trash and recycling. Yesterday I cleaned off a surface and vacuumed a bit more. Where does all the dust come from? I thought the dog hair was bad, but lint from fabric may be a close second.

Meanwhile in Etsy shop land, I packed up and sent the last of the custom quilts. That was a major To-Do item off my white board. Six quilts and a table runner in about three months. I forgot to take a picture of the table runner, I made it from a free video tutorial from Shabby Fabrics.

Next on to the finish side were the last two blocks of Simple Days. I am so happy to get these finished, but I am debating on whether or not to sew them together yet. I am toying with the idea of combining the current Elefantz BOM, Sewing room, with it for a larger quilt. Sewing room has 9 embroidered blocks and 27 patch blocks (finished size 6″x 8″). I did want to use a different fabric line for it other than the thirties scraps. I was thinking of making it into a sashing for the Simple days quilt. But do I really want to extend this UFO another nine months while I wait for the stitchery blocks to be released? I guess I could just put in the blank blocks and then embroider them as they are released. Right now the Simple days quilt top finishes at about 46″ square, so adding four rows of sashing that is 8 inches wide, would make it 78″ inches wide and 90″ inches tall. Will ruminate on that a bit.

I made a bunny yesterday too, from a Funky Friends Factory pattern by Pauline McArthur. It was fairly easy to do, the hardest parts were turning the arms and legs right side out and stitching the face. I used a plush wool fabric that has been in my sewing stash for many years and a remnant of silk velvet for the inner ears. It was originally destined to be a teddy bear, but that got waylaid some time ago. My son had a bunny plush toy given to him by his grandma, so I will continue the tradition.

I am trying to decide on a project to bring on my trip. I am knitting a scarf, but it is about half way done, and a good plane knitting project. Plus the lucky recipient will be seen in a week, so that needs to be finished. But I want to work on something else, maybe a Wallaby sweater, mindless knitting in the round. I should bring the cable sweater that has been languishing for a year or so, but that’s too much thinking/knitting/counting. I haven’t even packed my clothing yet, and here I am worrying about projects to do.

Be Kind.