moving soo slow

Whoa! I've noticed that my blogging has declined a TON since the semester started. I also started a full time job doing instruction design, so I'm busy busy busy!

But a couple cool things to note. First, I'm packing up the cats and my Poodle and moving! Not far away, just a few blocks. Friends of friends have a house with an apartment that is awesome and cool. Not much extra room but the layout is better (I have a living room now!) and, if my plans work out right, I will have my own sewing cave!

I also learned my little blog is the Blog of the Week for American Quilter's Society. See the little tag to the side? WHOA!

And lastly, oh boy, I am finishing up a tutorial for a block I designed. Or I should say "I haven't seen someone else out there do it so I assume I designed it." You can always let me know otherwise!

I hope the get the tutorial up sometime soon. The goal was to finish this and ship it off to a friend who just had a baby, but that plan was derailed. At least the top is together now :0) 

If you have any good ideas for a name for the block, let me know! I've been thinking a bit myself.

beejeebers! and being slow

I finished my Beejeeber's block for September - isn't it awesome?

We used this tutorial and made the blocks in rainbow colors. I learned that I really lack true blues and reds in my stash.

Starting my new job is really slowing me down. I'm not sure how I found time to sew when I was teaching a ton of classes, but working 40 hours a week totally changes the game. This week I managed to do a tiny, tiny bit of quilting. And the above block. And nothing else.

I think my new plan is to try to get things ready to go so that I don't need to hunt for the parts for my projects, clear out space to cut, and then fandangle my machine to get the right foot and tread going on it. Perhaps boxes I can just pick up and sew with could be made if I set aside time to organize and cut things up. Sounds like too much work for me at this point! But I'll figure it out. I might just need to wait for my brain and body to get used to being a working gal.

At least I have a real income now.... and can better afford my hobby!