A Good Busy Day

It's 4:30 p.m. and I have been busy every second since 5:30 a.m.

It's been a nice kind of busy, mostly fun sewing with a little cooking and just a tad bit of cleaning thrown in.

Every weekend I make a mental note to work on my hand quilting for a minimum of two hours. It takes about 100 hours for me to hand quilt every king-size quilt I make. So far this weekend I have at least doubled that goal.

I used my dining room table to lay out the quilt so that I could mark my scalloped design.

I use a stencil & a water soluble pen to do this.

Marking all these lines is my second least favorite part of the quilting process (crawling around on the floor adding the batting and backing is my least favorite).

This is what it looks like when I get the pattern transferred. Now I just sew on the blue lines.

The lines will disappear when I wipe a wet cloth over them.

While hand quilting, I watched old 'Simply Quilts', 'Gardener's Journal' and 'Kitty B." episodes I had taped from five years ago.

It was a great way to pass a winter afternoon.

While waiting for the meatloaf and baked potatoes to get done,I decided to open a bottle of wine that a friend gifted me with.

It's a White Zin from a local winery.

It's not very good. My first clue that it would not be was the color red on the cork. White Zinfandel is usually not so dark.

Oh, well, maybe the second glass will taste better. :)