I have now reached the stage where all the rows are joined and it's time to cut the borders to size. As I'm not always happy with squaring my quilts, I am busy reading my quilting go to book (Rotary Magic by Nancy Johnson-Srebro). I love the colour combination in this little quilt, it's so fresh and light. I'm so glad my SIL likes it too! .
While sewing this afternoon I had my iPod on shuffle for background music. This evening I was listening to Michael Buble - I do like his voice! I love mellow music - Jason Mraz, Joshua Radin and Jack Johnson to name a few. A couple of days ago I was looking for my Savage Garden CD and found a few other older CDs that I've added to my iPod as well. Now really showing my age, I added some John Denver, R.E.M, Wilson Phillips and Chris de Burgh. I can't listen to all of it but there are still some songs that I really like. What sort of music do you like listening to and are there any oldies that you still enjoy?
Sag Aloo with added onions and peppers (dinner last night).
My healthy eating hasn't been going as well as I had hoped and I have decided to go back to doing the Weight Watchers plan. At least then I know I can still have a little of what I like so long as I count the points. I'm starting on the points tomorrow and because I've done WW before, I'm hoping it'll soon feel normal again. I've also realised I need to write out a menu plan for myself; not just what I'm going to have for dinner but what I'm going to have for lunch too. My breakfast is generally the same; Special K, fruit and light soya milk. If I have the menu written out I'm more likely to stick to it.
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After Jon woke me just before 5am this morning to say he was on his way to work I didn't go back to sleep until about 5.30 and then my alarm went off at 6! I should have just got up at 5 - now I'm feeling really tired and think I'm going to have an early night.
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More sewing tomorrow - hoping to get the quilt top finished and sandwiched together so I can start on the actual quilting. Have you got plans for tomorrow?
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You've been really productive! It's a struggle to stay on an eating plan. I hoped to be really good this week, but we entertained tonight and are going to friend's for dinner tomorrow. I was pretty good, but I need to be VERY good. When I'm sewing, my iron is always on as well. My sewing machine had to go to the repair shop today. I'm having big skipping problems when I use the zigzag stitch. The guy was pretty amused that I sew on cardstock more than I do on fabric. He's going to try to adjust it so the tension will be OK for both. It's an old machine but a very good one, and he always encourages me to keep it. He doesn't have a very good opinion of most new machines.
ReplyDeleteI haven't ironed anything but hama beads for years....
ReplyDeleteYou give me hope that one day when my children are older I will have more free time for my crafts and activities!!!
The quilt is looking beautiful already!
Love the colours of the quilt, so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI smiled when I saw your music preferences for, if you go back to my music, you would probably say "Oh no!" Mind you, a lot of my songs came from musicals and those same musicals are being repeated in the theatre world now. 'Modern' music? I stick to Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, Russell Watson, All Angels etc.Really dates me! xxx
Going back to 'my music' remember when I had to rehearse for shows etc. you and your sisters and brothers would suddenly disappear behind closed doors? Definitely not your kind of music.xxx
ReplyDeleteIroning?! I may have to revise my plans to start quilting lol... Yours is looking *gorgeous* though :-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the eating plan, I used WW after having each of my kids and it really worked for me. I'm sure you will find that you slip back into the routine of it easily x