Sleep Issue Last Night

I. Could. Not. Get. To. Sleep. Last night. At 3:00 I finally got up and took a few baby aspirin (which I hate doing) just to relax a little and give my aching hand (the one with the broken finger) a little pain management. I fell asleep shortly after doing that. So, five hours is good, right?

Yesterday started out with me babysitting DW while stitching out Pats quilt...

Civil War Quilt

I did the research to see what most civil war quilts were quilted with. Pat wanted something simple and as it turns out, during that time period, three motifs were generally used to quilt these. Crosshatching, clamshells, and Baptist Fans. I opted for Baptist Fans because it seemed the simplest to get in there.

See how nice it looks?

That took well into lunch hour because each time (twice) I walked away, DW broke thread. As long as I was standing there, everything was a-okay. 

After lunch I removed Pats quilt and started frame ironing for a small project I need to get done this weekend. More on that later.

It was time to get onto Marty and do some work on the Tilda Sampler. Here are two of the blocks...

The third block was hastily interrupted by a pretty large thunderstorm that rolled through. When a crack of lightning lit and then a thunder was right behind it I had to shut the machine down. Again, surge protectors (no matter how good they are) are no match for 1.21 Gigawatts. 😉

While I was waiting for the thunderstorm to roll through, I did my homework for my Quilters Groove Academy class...

Homework

Just as I was about to get back on Marty a second wave of thunderstorms came through. It was past 5:00 and I thought maybe somebody up there was telling me something. I gave up long arming for the day and instead opted to finish cutting out my second quilt for retreat...

Two all ready to go

Well, the second one is nearly ready. I would like to bunch each block up and clip them so I don't have to spread out and go searching for the correct pieces while I'm on a confined retreat table.

And, it's pretty spread out there on mine already so lets wrangle this thing into a more manageable situation.

I'll be on Marty all day today. I wanted to get more done yesterday and my goal is to have this piece completed by days end. And, here I am blathering on about yesterday and not working. Okay...let's go.