Sunday, March 15, 2020

15 minute a day check in

oh man...
what a month this has turned out to be.
i started last week trying to wrangle preschoolers with the time change and as of friday afternoon, i'm officially out of work until april 14th.
what? 
in the meantime, i'll be trying to make the best of it with a whole lot of sewing and cleaning in my room (yay for social distancing?) but i've already informed my mom that if this lockdown status gets any worse, i'm loading up my car and rolling everything to their place until things die down.  if i'm going to be shut in long term, i need some derpy cats in my life.
speaking of derpy cats...
ok, back to the point of this check in.
back at the start of march, instagram quilt month began, where i mentioned on my kick off post that i would be imposing the goal to sew for at least 15 minutes a day.  i thought it would be difficult to keep going, but with the number of UFO projects i was already behind on (january not finished, february not started and now it was march...) i could at least be consistent on something hoping to get one of those three done.
well... i'm pleased to say i have done something quilty involved for at least 15 minutes each of those days, most of them being more than an hour.  only one of those days so far has been spent not cutting or sewing, and that's because i was chatting it up with a fellow guild board member about what the heck we are going to do in order to keep our members thriving with everything being cancelled.
in addition to just the act of sewing, i have completed january's quilt top, a second quilt top that wasn't on my UFO list for some reason, got february's to the point of almost finished (it will probably get assembled today at my parent's since they have the floor space to lay out blocks)
now that we're in a strongly encouraged social distancing timeframe, i have a feeling that i'll probably be well caught up at the end of march, let alone by april 14th when i'm supposed to be back in the classroom. i also have some plans to work on a handful of things for our guild, so hopefully a lot of things will get checked off my ever growing "to do" list.
it is all a bit of a blur right now, so until i have a more solid plan for posts as the month goes on, i'll leave you with some pretty fabric i bought at quiltcon (and the glitter grunge came from local quilt shop swifty stitches).  stay tuned for another update post at the end of march!

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