Oops

I heard some ladies discussing a sewing get-together. I committed a social faux pas and invited myself to join them, then immediately felt like a goob for doing so. This morning I ironed a bunch of fabric to take so I could cut pieces for my next project. I showered and put on clothes that aren't also pajamas, including a (ugh) bra. (A sure sign I'm leaving the house.) As I sat waiting for an appropriate time to leave I read a text from one of them that indicated that I might have the date wrong. A quick call verified I was a day off. Karma for being a party crasher. Ha! Bonus: I went ahead and cut all the pieces, something I usually procrastinate on for quite awhile. Moral: Hang out with friends when you can. Being with other productive people makes me productive.

Sew Day was fun(nish). The visiting and the time with my creative buddies was excellent. The frickin-frackin gravity blocks did not make me feel special. Grrr! I messed up some of the blocks because I got the colors wrong. I was trying sooooo harrrrrd to get them right but the (insert every expletive you've ever heard here) blocks will not look like everyone else's. In the long run it doesn't matter but it frustrates me. Moral: Relax! Things work out just fine in the end.

I tend to get very absorbed once the pieces are cut for a new project. I finished a quilt top on Sunday which snapped me outta my stupor and brought me back to reality. Good grief. Somebody came in and dirtied up my house while I was sewing! Hahaha! They left dishes in the sink and laundry to do. To avoid an outbreak of typhoid I decided I should clean up a little before allowing myself to begin sewing again. Moral: Hire a maid.

Keep sewing! 

-Angie Clemons

Choose kind.

Gadgets & Tools

I'm pretty sure I have most of them, if not all. I don't have all the rulers and templates but the other stuff...yeah...I have that. 

With my handy dandy thread cutter I could be chain piecing a mile a minute. With my bobbin holder thingy I can use thread right off the bobbin and never waste thread again. I have a rubber bobbin storage oval which is actually very helpful except when I pop the bobbin out too exuberantly and it goes flying. I have a magnet to clip on my person so I can attach scissors to myself, and a button with a pulley cord to do the same, and yet I never remember where I laid my scissors. Oh yeah! I'm wearing them! I have a thread stand, a bobbin winder, six kinds of marking pens, three styles of seam rippers, five types of scissors, thread snips, a magnetic wand to pick up pins that become invisible on my floor, and a partridge in a pear tree! Oh, sorry, I forgot what I was doing. 

I have five cutting mats. A big one, a small one, a travel one that is a cutting mat and ironing surface, and two that rotate. There's a trashcan/cup holder combo that attaches to the table. A mini fan I can attach to the table to blow directly on me for those days when my sewing machine and I are en fuego. Plastic head straight pins and glass head pins so I wouldn't melt the plastic ones with the iron. Oh, and a regular iron for home and a travel iron for random sewing sites. There are multicolored clips and pink breast cancer awareness clips. (Pet peeve-all this breast cancer awareness stuff. I had kidney cancer and it's my thinking that you can live without boobies but you have to have a kidney to live. So why aren't there renal cell carcinoma awareness clips? You know I would have some.) And there's more, and even more gadgets that have been thrown in a crowded drawer and forgotten. Several haven't been used. Yet.

With allllll that you would think I'd be turning out a quilt every few days. It should be easy, right? But, no. I have yet to find a quilt shop that sells antiprocrastination gadgets. And neither does Amazon. Seems like there'd be a spray for that. I could put it on the shelf with my two kinds of starch and my flatter.

Happy quilting!

Angie Clemons

~Choose kind~