I don’t know why I do it but I do. I bite off more than I can chew. I offered to help my niece make something for her mother for Christmas. We started a cross stitch project last year that sort of turned to a dust covered sewing box ornament. I wanted to do something more basic and less eye-straining and complicated so when I saw a quilt kit at a fabric store, naturally I thought it would be a great idea. I bought it before Christmas last year with the hope that we’d work on it a little at a time. Well here it is the early Thursday morning before Christmas and I’m pulling another all nighter with the blasted thing.

The funny thing about the project is that it seems like the only thing that keeps me from crawling into bed and staying there half the day. Thank God for diversions. This past couple of weeks have been bleak. I don’t know how else to describe them except to say that until the last couple of mornings, it was all I could do to even bother getting out of bed.

So I’m working on this quilt. I should actually be working on it right now but I decided to blog about it instead. I wanted to get it done in time to have Friday to do regular things with some fun interspersed in there somewhere. I still might be able to do it. We’ll see. I am sooooo tired. It might’ve been a mistake to sit down.

Someday when I grow up, I’m going to have a sewing room with a sewing table the size of an Olympic size swimming pool. I am so sick and tired of getting tangled up in project pieces because I’m working in cramped quarters. Oh well. I should be thankful I have “quarters” at all. Some people not only don’t have homes, they’re starving or sick. Or both. But I am so tired and more room to work would be so helpful.

Well, it’s 2:30 a.m. and I’m not at a good stopping point yet. I’ve finished the top, trimmed the excessively large amount of batting, pieced together yardage for the back as per the instructions and now I need to meet the goal of having the batting attached to the top piece. If I can get that pinned and trimmed, I have half a chance of getting finished with the whole thing tomorrow.

I hate busyness. If I were Queen of the World, nobody would do anything but maintenance type chores after 6 p.m.and everybody would sit around playing 20 Questions, Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly or chess or watching t.v. with their families.

Now I’m whining. C’iao!

Oh, and here’s a pick of the quilt top: