Well, I was on a roll!

I'm still here, I promise! But how is it the end of August already? This month just flew by! Sadly, there hasn't been much quilting going on this month, just a little here and a little there as I find tiny pockets of time. When I last posted, I was working on Tennessee Tumble and I did finish the top, but it isn't quilted yet. I like to use my felt covered 2x4s to baste quilts and I took those over to my fiance's house (slowly moving some stuff over there). I just keep forgetting to grab the batting when I go over there, so it's waiting in the queue. Of course while assembling the top, there always has to be one block that decides to turn the wrong direction, so some seam ripping was needed to fix that because it would bother me, even though I'm not keeping this one.

So while I have no quilt to quilt right now, I'm working on piecing the next one. This one was also originally doodled in different colors, but the recipient of this one is also a beach lover and I found the perfect bundle of fabrics. Bonus is that they are batiks! And since this still to be finalized name quilt is mostly half square triangles, I love it even more since batiks are so delightful to press.

And I am delighted to report that as of last night, all the flying geese and half square triangles are trimmed and pressed and ready for me to begin block assembly! The picture below is of all the units before sewing/trimming/pressing. 

So why the limited quilting time this last month? Some of it good, some of it frustrating. To start, my apartment building changed management companies and they decided to add key pad locks to all the units. Which I thought was going to be great. Except I got a faulty/finicky lock and was locked out of my apartment twice in a week for 2 hours each time waiting for the maintenance guy to get there and unlock my door. I now have a physical key so it shouldn't happen again but it was frustrating, especially since it was my day off and I had better things to do than sit in my car and wait!

Then there was my now sister-in-law's bachelorette party. She wanted to do a paint and sip thing and it was fun and I tried my hand at painting. I'm happy with how it turned out but I still think fabric is my artistic medium of choice.

Then we move back to the frustrating because a week later I started laundry at my fiance's house and sat on the couch to watch some TV with him only to hear the dreaded drip...drip...drip and realized the ceiling was dripping on the chair in front of my sewing machine that I keep at his place. The machine was quickly moved and buckets were found and thankfully it was during the spin cycle that it started dripping. So now there's a lovely hole in the ceiling and the leak has been fixed (we hope!). But my machine is safely stored out of the way while we wait to make sure there are no more leaks and fix the ceiling. 

But back to the happy news, last weekend my younger brother got married and my parents came indl for the wedding so we were busy celebrating and spending time with them. 

And while I want to say things have calmed down and I should get more sewing time in soon, especially since I'm back to having more free time every other week, I'm looking ahead at the calendar and realizing that a lot of things for my own wedding are going to start happening. So I may not post as regularly as I'd like in the next few months, but I will try! At the very least, there are 3 or 4 quilts that need to be made before my wedding next March so there will be quilting to help keep me sane!

Happy quilting!