Don't get excited... not real running,... I can't remember when I last ran about a dozen steps, and that was on a downhill gradient! Although sometimes I do manage a brief moment of trotting on the spot.
Today has been a mix of running quite fast just to stay still... 🙃 I think Ang called it a 'cascade of tasks'.
Going to find some paperwork I managed to tip my sewing tin onto the floor; trying to put the paperwork away (I did find the Grant of Probate in quite a sensible place) I ended up tidying and sorting a couple of shelves of filing...
and I've shoved everything back into the sewing tin....
Going to cook lunch I discovered some alien slime in the bottom of one of the fridge drawers hiding under the potatoes (ok, ok, should have cleaned the drawers earlier in the week, how time flies when you're not paying attention)...
said drawer is all nice and clean, the veg is washed and dried and back in the fridge...
and I carried on with cooking lunch at the same time...
After lunch I did one of the planned jobs for the day; Three packages ready for posting, each with appropriate contents (including 10 pages copied and pasted and printed from the Internet for a friend who doesn't have a computer) and a quick note in each package...
But the afternoon was really taken up with running with my current obsession; The Stitch Sampler.
I sat there with notebook and pen and thought and sketched and came up with this;
I can remember spending hours preparing for a quilt, with the same type of calculations that you are making!
ReplyDeleteIt's a novel way of going about things for me; normally I'd have started by chopping and sewing, then worked out how to do it!
DeleteMy friend with a master's in math can not count to save her life. She explains that's not math!
ReplyDeleteShe's right, it's 'arithmetic, or 'sums' as we called it in infant school. It was at university, about 6 weeks into a maths degree, that I discovered the uncomfortable truth that I'm not any kind of mathematician either. Somehow I scrambled through...
DeleteI look at the sketches and read the words but they make absolutely no sense to me. *smile*. I just hope it all works for you.
ReplyDeleteAs for one thing leading to another, yes, they do, but in the process one can get some unexpected but necessary jobs done. As you certainly did.
Have a restful Sunday.
GM, you have completely dispelled my grumpiness about the extra tasks that filled my day! Thank you!
DeleteSounds like a really - accidental albeit - productive day!
ReplyDeleteYou've put a lot of thought into the stitching project. I love all the jottings and drawings. You are very talented!
It was... oddly enough I slept really well last night....
DeleteI'd be giving up after the 'fold and iron and unfold'! It sounds like you have it all organised - have fun
ReplyDeleteI only put 'iron' in to sound as though I meant to do this properly! I'll just fold with force and determination. Hah! Take that, I'll mutter, and stick it full of pins!
DeleteI love this project! Cannot wait to see it progress. Have you got 63 stitches to display, or will there be repeats?
ReplyDeleteI think there will be repeats. I like a little bit of a challenge but some of the stitches don't look at all relaxing to attempt.
DeleteAs I look at the size of the quilt I'm thinking ' Just right for reclining on the sofa' .
ReplyDeleteYes, a proper blanket can get a bit tricky to manage
DeleteGood grief!
ReplyDeleteThe madness of the quilt? The madness of the day? Everything?!?
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