checking in... it's july now?

july.... we're here somehow.

crazy right?

i keep tagging these posts 2020 quarantine, but i don't even know if this phase is still considered quarantine?  california seems to be going all over the place.  phase 2, phase 3, back to phase 2.  ack.

my quilt finishing ability has slowed WAY down... so here's to trying to turn that around quickly.a week ago from saturday, i got my water bottle pimped out. 

so that's cool.

a gal i've known since elementary school got a "new to her" cricut, so she's been playing with it.  jealous

i've wanted a name sticker forever, so i threw some ideas at her, and she knocked it out of the park.

at least one of us was being crafty, right?

monday of this last week was cooler, so i made more meatball blobs.

at least i can have variety in my food again.

which also means i need to go grocery shopping.

honestly, my last two weeks were pretty uneventful, much like the update post prior.

my sewjo was zonked for the most part, but when it came to the middle of last week and i decided my coteachers and i needed some masks for spirit day on friday, well... i had to make it happen.

and it was very worth it.i used the orange dot quilts simple mask pattern and after a bit of mix ups, they turned out perfect.  our spirit day theme was "disney/star wars" so since it was the last day of work before july 4th, we decided to take a heavy patriotic spin to it as well.

survey says: these masks were great.

they didn't suck in to our mouths while talking/teaching and i had no struggles the whole day.

my head hurt, but that was because of my headband combined with my walkie talkie earpiece.  i didn't fuss with it at all, and it didn't pull at my ears.

the only problem was that i don't drink as much water when wearing the masks.  my hydroflask was still pretty full at the end of my 6 hour shift.

if i have to make any more masks, i'll probably use this pattern again.come last thursday, my productivity bug was itching, so i decided to get to work on a baby quilt.

i had previously cut the squares on sunday at my parent's, and then they sat.  (i'm doing angela pingel's take heart pattern, by the way)

thursday night i made my half square triangles, pulled out and hung up my new design wall, and got everything laid out.  i also cut out the curved pieces, but didn't trust myself to sew curves at 10pm.  so i ate ice cream instead.  whoops.

friday i slept in, worked at the quilt shop, and then after a hearty meal of in-n-out, i knocked out those curves, and the rest of the quilt top at that.

two quilts with curves in one quarantine, let alone one year?

i might be losing my mind.

but we already knew that.

saturday i ran errands and then spend the afternoon/evening at my coworker's to celebrate the 4th.

spent time in the pool, at some bbq, blew up things, and had a good time overall.

sunday i woke up eventually, opened instagram, and found my patriotic picnic quilt featured on missouri star company's instagram account.  whaaaat? check it out here!

basically, spent a lot of the day folding laundry... washing laundry... folding more laundry...

here we are at another monday, ready to kick things in to gear and do the same things we do every week.

work hard and do nothing else because we're not allowed to.