Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

This past week, the yarn for my nieces sweaters (this pattern is really called a bolero) came in. If you've never knit with Lorna's Laces, you must. It's a really nice and soft yarn - perfect for the girls! It's washable too. I cast on for Ava's sweater in this pink colorway I chose for her. Alex's will be purple - after all she's 6 a/k/a way too old for pink!

I have to give G credit, when I came home with the yarn he admired how soft it was and said it would be perfect for Ava. In the course of conversation I said "please don't ask me how much this was". And he didn't. Gotta love that! Let's just say it cost a lot more than the Berocco Comfort I made their last sweaters from.

I was behind in my quilting homework so I got up early this morning and got busy. This is the first time I've chain pieced. I enjoyed it.

Also my first time doing flying geese (which need a good pressing).

Yesterday I made my my first dresden plate - which is a mess/disaster/wreck. My seams were just too scant. It'd be perfect with one less piece but then the patterning would be goofed up. I'm either going to rip this one out and resew or start over from square one. But not today.

At first I was a bit upset about this. After all I was behind. But then I just decided to sit down and just sew until I was done. Whenever that was. I started with the block I had to have prepped for this weeks class (the one with the flying geese). And then I went on to a block I was supposed to have completed. Then to a 2nd one that was supposed to be done. By the end of the day I'd been at my machine the entire day with the exception for a family trip to the movies (we saw Taken, it was great). I'm totally up to date except for the dresden plate block and I have all the remaining blocks all cut out. I accomplished way more than I intended. I'll admit that this class was beginning to feel like it wasn't fun. It wasn't that the homework was too much but that it was too much with my current work schedule and my stressing over it was making it much worse. Turns out, it was really my own attitude that was causing the problem!

Lesson Learned: Just have fun with it! And when it's not fun, STOP!