I’m celebrating my own 30 Days of Creativity this month for the fifth (!) year in a row.
June 15 – I made a little progress on Charlotte’s stocking. Overall I’ve stalled out on this a bit, partly because work’s been so crazy for the last month that I haven’t been able to make it to the weekly creativity club meeting, and that’s where I had been spending time on it. With 5ish months to go if I want to hang this on the mantel for Christmas, I need to once again pick up the pace.
June 16 – Well, I missed a day. Womp womp. The girls had swimming lessons right after work, and then I headed to Jen’s house for book club. I didn’t get home until around 10:30 at which point I was ready for bed. However…
June 17 – …I made up for missing Thursday by tackling a ton of stuff on flex Friday! I’ve got 3 simple baby quilts in the works, so I cut fabric for the first one that I’m calling my Celestial quilt. I also sewed up 2/3 of a crib skirt for Charlotte’s room to replace the one I made for Emma, since Charlotte’s room decor is different. And I also spent time putting together the Sailor Top pattern, which I plan to make for myself. (I bought a PDF pattern, which means printing it out and assembling all the pages.)
June 18 – I finished Charlotte’s crib skirt and put it on her crib! I also cut all the fabric for my Sailor Top. The fabric is a Cloud 9 Cirrus Solid in Shamrock — a nice bright green color.
June 19 – I starched and cut fabric for a second baby quilt that I’m going to call my Sea Geese quilt since 1) the fabric I chose is from Heather Rosas’s Under the Sea collection and 2) I’m making large flying geese blocks.
June 20 – I started piecing the Sea Geese quilt. I made things a bit hard on myself since I ordered the fabric before I knew exactly what I was going to make, and as a result, I had to cut the “background” triangles on their own instead of following the more traditional flying geese technique and cutting squares. I’m not wasting any fabric this way…but it requires me to be a lot more careful when lining things up to sew.
June 21 – I stitched some more on the cross stitch medallion I started two weeks ago while watching the US men’s soccer team get beaten handily by Argentina in the Copa America. Ah, soccer. One day maybe we’ll be able to compete…
