Last Stitch

I turn the binding and sew by hand to finish my quilts and each time have experienced that:

The Last Stitch = All the Feels

*Excitement- whoa, I'm one stitch away from being done with this!

*Joy- colors and shapes and patterns and designs bring so much happiness to my life.

*Reverence- this quilt making is some straight up magic...I made a thing that didn't exist until now!

*Relief- holy crap, it took a long time to make that thing.

*Gratitude- I'm so thankful I have a precious human body with hands and a brain and eyes that make.

*Wonder/Awe- did I really make this?!?

*Pride- hey, look, I really made this!!

*Confidence- hey, if I made this, I can make other cool stuff!

*LOVE- explanation not adequate to capture this. 

I will share a photograph of the finish (maybe my fastest yet, done in 44 days!) once it stops raining and my model comes home. I have the house to myself tonight. So naturally, I will be listening to music too loud and cutting some fabric in my pajamas and eventually watching chick flicks under a brand-new, finished quilt. 

I also may or may not have bought a bottle of wine and a pint of Half Baked Ben and Jerry's...

Cheers! Saturday! Yes!

 

Sewing Space

If you are anything like me, getting to poke around someone's home is super satisfying to you.

I thought I would let you mosey around in our "office"...which, let's be real, is pretty much exclusively sewing space at this point.

Have a look around!

Ignore junk pile.

I love my OttLite so much I had to put heart magnets on it.
Ignore the weirdo stickers on the radiator in our rental.

Threads and rulers-- and pretties, of course.

WIP Over Here.

"Home is where you make it."

All of the neon labels and fabric stash bins
 (organized by color) are new as of last weekend. 

It makes the whole room feel more organized!

"Organization system" cost 8 bucks at WalMart.

Highly recommend it.

I love my Making Headquarters.

My machine is M.I.A. from the sewing room (oops, I mean "office") because it has been working hard on our dining room table finishing some straight line stitching. I decided to post the husband photo bomb edit because he really deserves a shout out for letting my fabric and pins and machine and quilts take over the house.

Bryan's blog debut. I can't look at this and not giggle.

Now, get outside! It's May! Go hug your mom! May rocks.

Time Travel

Do you get snippets of time in your day where you feel like you "go somewhere" without really going anywhere? Moments or minutes or hours where time seems to be transcended somehow? Do you ever experience that weird, freako, deja vu vibe? Do you ever fall face first in your work or your play and get lost there for awhile?

If you don't, I hope you start because it's a friggin' strange but awesome thing we can do as humans.

Mystery fabric from my ever-growing stash.
Weird and Beautiful. Kind of like time travel. And Life.

Recent Time Travel List:

• I am a speech-language pathologist in an elementary school and when I score standardized testing, write reports, crunch some therapy data, teach some kids...I am sometimes able to get in that Flow. I love looking at the clock thinking...where did that hour go? Oh yeah! I was in my hustle head space, doing my work. Cool.

• Alone in the house, I moved a bunch of furniture from the middle of our living room last weekend to make some space. I taped fabric to the floor. I smoothed wrinkles. I poked pins between layers of quilt. I chugged La Croix with loud music on. I. Jammed. Out. 

• A lot of times my brain is too full of garbage to "go somewhere" during this yoga pose but a few weeks ago I time traveled in Savasana on a sunny Saturday and it was legit (major understatement). Ommm to my Yogis out there!

• Last night I finished Modern Lovers by Emma Straub. Fiction novels got me like heart-eyes-emoji face forever.

• I walked in warm weather with my husband through my hometown that is now again my town where home is. Isn't it divine to think that Spring is strong enough to smell and you can walk around in flower fragrance for a short, special time each year?

• Scouring quilt blogs while scarfing lunch. 

• Cutting the ends off green beans before baking them in six cloves of garlic.

• Driving to Ohio with my mom, eating gummy bears like nobody's business.

• Hearing that machine hum, hum, hum under my hands....we're taking up the whole dining room table to quilt straight lines and squares this week, baby.

Make time for that Time Travel.

It's the good stuff.