Being faithful

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Such a colourful, pretty quilt!

The last few days have been full of sewing; I completed a quilt top, made a backing, then fixed a quilt sandwich, basting it this evening. Now I'm plopped on the sofa while the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers clamor in the background. I might not even get to any hand-quilting tonight, but that's okay. It's enough that the quilt is lounging quietly beside me.

I also finished the most complicated (so far) block of the Red Sky at Night EPP. Idle Moments was anything but, yet I took my time, basting, then stitching, a quarter of it each evening, completing it last night, WHEW! Today I cut fabric for the last of the small blocks, bagging it all up with the coordinating papers, then bringing it to where I sew at night. Hand-quilting will share time with hand-sewing over the next few weeks, as I'm hoping to complete the quilt before Thanksgiving.

I read there are sixty pieces in this particular pattern. Dude, that's a LOT of little pieces!

With all this creativity coursing through my veins, I'm grateful tonight to only be writing this post; my feet are achy, I'm tired. I've been pushing the crafty envelope the last few days, but kind of in an auto-pilot manner, not thinking, "Oh my goodness, how am I gonna get all this done?" Or "I don't have time for this now...." Basically I've been listening to my heart, putting one foot in front of the other, not worrying about how it's all going to fall into place. Keeping the faith, you might say, followed by a hearty yawn. I feel like I am gonna sleep REALLY WELL tonight.

Part of the joy of just doing what I feel led to do is knowing, and I mean TRULY BELIEVING, everything is going to be fine. Great. MARVELOUS! Maybe not easy, but.... Certainly doable, then I can veg on the couch at the end of the day. I ate dinner after basting the quilt, but I still needed to put the office back together. And make my bed (where I laid out the backing fabric and actually made the quilt sandwich). And write some emails. Then I wanted to fashion a post because, well, I felt called to write a post, lol. I slap a LOL at the end of that previous sentence, but in all seriousness, keeping the faith, or rather acting on faith, is deeply important to me, a meaningful experience that shapes my world, my beliefs, my core. Again it comes back to not overthinking things, but simply accepting no matter what is asked of me, I'll be able to accomplish it.

Yesterday it was WARM here, as a front headed west, colliding with toasty southern air; we received an inch of rain overnight into this morning, then the sun emerged, but unlike yesterday when I spent a lot of time outside prepping for the rain, today I stayed inside, enjoying the good weather by osmosis. I stretched my back and hips as the sun shone into the room, onto the bed, but not into my eyes because by four p.m., the sun was so low in the sky, I didn't have to squint or close my eyes while lying on my side doing clam shells. It certainly helped that it was already after four by the time I got to that exercise, haha, but I needed to do those stretches, and that was before getting the quilt sandwich onto the basting table.

And now it's coming on seven p.m., halftime for the Warriors and Clippers, LA leading by five points. I'm about done here, not much more to note. I'm keeping the faith, maintaining a hopeful heart, not fretting overtly that which is out of my control, or even within my grasp. Maybe the Warriors will lose, maybe I won't get the quilt completed before Thanksgiving. Yet I'll do my best about the sewing, and leave basketball to the professionals. And I am SO READY for bedtime. Another hour or so and I'm calling this day DONE!


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