Back to Reality

I took entirely too much hand sewing work for this vacation. I did finish a bunch of blocks, but I didn't need to take quite so much. I had thought that when we got back to our AirBnB at the end of the day that I would want to wind down with some sewing. What I ended up doing instead was going through the 400+ pictures I had taken each day and deleting the blurry ones or the ones that didn't really have anything in them. In my defense, I was taking most of them out of the passenger side window while we were driving. 

I did sneak in a little bit of sewing though in the mornings a few days and at the airports. Mostly I was tired on the plane so I didn't sew a whole lot. My floor is a mess, so I'll take photos of where I'm at with that project for next week.

But South Dakota was beautiful and like nothing I've ever seen before. The sky was bluer than I've ever seen it and the contrast between the bright sky, the brown grasses and the dark green ponderosa pines started sparking a color pallet for a quilt. Mix in a few bright happy yellows to remind me of the aspens that were changing colors, and I'm beginning to understand why Bonnie Hunter has so many quilts inspired by trips she's taken. I might need to steal her idea. 

So what's on deck for me quilting wise? Well, I need to get back to some hand quilting, I have a self imposed deadline to make. And I'm hoping at the bare minimum to get the two baby quilts basted. Still no word on gender for the third one I need to make. But if I have enough batting here, I might also get my Dresden plate quilt basted. I have a bunch of rolls of batting, they're just not stored here in my tiny apartment. 

Then, this Friday and Saturday is the local quilt guild's show. I'm not a member, I'd like to be, but I can't make the requirements for meeting attendance with my work schedule. So I'll go when I can and pay the guest fee. But I'm super excited to attend, and for their next show in two years, I'm going to try to work something out with my work schedule so I can attend enough meetings so I can enter a quilt or two to be judged. Still not committing to anything though, my heart starts to race a bit at that thought. 

Other than that, it's just getting back into the routine around here, there was laundry and grocery shopping yesterday because I needed clean laundry and there was no food in the house. And after a week of eating out, I'm ready for home cooked food!