Playing the Waiting Game

[sakon76]

Still here, still preggers, still waiting. I've developed this neurotic voice in the back of my head making me keep on top of all the housework because I don't want to go into labor and end up going to the hospital for 3-4 days with dishes growing cultures in the sink or damp laundry slowly mouldering in the washing machine.

Ah, domestic paranoia at its finest.

I also cleaned and oiled my sewing machine today. I have another (bed-sized) quilt basted and ready to quilt, but I'm not in the right headspace for marking it and wrestling it through the machine, so I engaged in some mindless sewing instead. I finally figured out what to do for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year - make up blocks for the String-X quilt I eventually want to make. So I finished up all the gray and purple strings I'd pulled last month out of my gallon Ziploc bag of strings, which made for six string strips, and then pulled and pressed all the red/pink/gold strings for this month's colors, and made four of those. I still have a lot more strings in those colors (well, in red and gold - apparently I don't sew a lot of pink) so I'll make more later. But there always has to be a reasonable stopping point to a day's sewing.

Also, there was Quilt-cam tonight! So I sat and embroidered during that. I'm taking a hiatus from the Christmas-colors tablecloth that I've been working on for months now. I finished allllll the red on it and wanted a visual break, so I switched to a project with different colors. I had picked up a set of a dozen cross-stitch quilt blocks at the thrift store, nine of them done, and have been working on #10. Yellow fabric, kind of '70s shades of gold, white, and green for the daisies, but embroidery keeps my hands busy and me off the streets. Something to do while I'm watching or waiting. I'll probably switch back to the tablecloth after I finish block #10, just because it would be nice to have it done in time for Christmas.

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[tainry.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. :D