Whew!

I finished both my BWOF blouse and piecing my quilt this weekend. Friday was my flex day, so I had an extra day. And I put it to good use.

First, here's my quilt all pieced and ready to sandwich and quilt. I found a dark blue sheet set at Target that I will use for the backing and I already have the batting. I played a bit with quilting stitches, etc. But haven't made any decisions yet, other than I will use yellow machine quilting thread, found at Hancock's yesterday. If you look at the close-up picture you can see some of my wonky strips that I ended up with. The story of that was handled in detail at SG. I have that thread bookmarked for the next time. And will likely be doing some Amazon shopping.

My BWOF blouse is completely finished (well, I need to open one buttonhole a bit more). In the end, I did as suggested: held my breath, stuck my tongue out and but the button holes in. I changed my mind about the buttons. I liked the white, but the light on the shirt isn't really white - more of a cream so I didn't want to use stark white buttons. The smaller black ones were OK, but I just wasn't in love. I found these at Hancock's yesterday and DO like them. They don't jump out like the white ones, but I think they do well. (Not sure what the red shadows are - flash reflection maybe. It isn't on the shirt). The colors are much true-er here than in the earlier post.

Today, I FINALLY loaded my 4-D embroidery software and realized that I need more thread before I can embroider anything. I smell an on-line shopping excursion.

And I cut out another pair of Marlene pants. Even I'm getting bored. But I need pants and these are fast to do if I can focus enough to do them.

I was aided in my sewing progress by a fall I took on Thursday afternoon at Union Station. Right smack-dab on the train platform. Right ankle turned and down I went. After realizing that I hadn't broken every bone in my body, I thought I was OK and would walk it off. But by the time I walked down to the Metro platform, changed trains, walked home, and took the dog out I was just about unable to move. It was some better on Friday, but I stayed in and babied it. Still some sore, but apparently I won't loose the foot or even have to walk around with one of those blue platform shoes on. And it gave me quite the excuse to stay in and sew.