Home!   I got home to my house on Sunday late evening.  After being gone for over two weeks, I had so much laundry to do. Load after load of it.  But before I could do said laundry, I had to unpack all bags and put the store back into organization. (I had taken much of it with me, complete with packing materials.)  And I had bills to pay.  And book work and paperwork from the trip to be done…  You have been there and know what I am talking about, right?

I started this English Paper Piecing project on the trip.  This is something I like to do, and I know how to do this.  The parallelograms have a right and a wrong direction and I know that.  I have written the directions and photographed the process for “Dora’s Flower Garden“, but when one has had a long day and is tired, sometimes the brain just doesn’t compute.  I started this row, and realized that half of my basted parallelograms are backwards.  Not a big deal, but while in the car, an iron was not available to press the creases out to reverse them.  Time to unsew!

And then I started a small sewing project late Tuesday night.  Something mindless to do was what I needed.  After five minutes of sewing, my modern machine made an awful racket and jammed.  I love my vintage machines, but do not currently have one that does a zig zag, and that was what this project required.  Oh, well.  Put that project on the shelf as well.  My machine is now getting the spa treatment at my friendly machine repair lady’s shop.  (She really is friendly.  That was NOT sarcasm!)

Working outside is so rejuvenating!

So outside work it is.  And THAT is delightful!  The colors are so beautiful, and the skies have been so clear and pretty, I can’t help but enjoy these beautiful autumn days.  Just a week ago, I was in Arkansas and the trees had barely started to turn.  Every once in awhile we would catch a glimpse of red or yellow and comment on it.  The farther north we got, the more color we saw.   And my house was the farthest north I have been, and it is gorgeous!  I think God just wanted me to put aside my projects and pay attention to His handiwork for a few days!   This is still creating.  I am creating the backdrop for the flowers that will come up next spring, finally spreading the mulch that was purchased over the summer.  LOL.

What are you creating today?  Take time to enjoy all of the creation around you!

ArtfullyQuilted

Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Great Grandmother. I am so thankful God is the Creator of all things beautiful and we are made in His image. I love creating, especially by quilting and designing with my computer. Now that I am retired, those two things are coming together, and I can't wait to share that with you!

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