Catching up with some sewing.

The last seven days have been totally crazy! Far too much to do at work for one person, and home just as mad.  I've felt as if I've been on a conveyer belt, moving at speed, trying to complete one task after another with no respite. I think it has finally calmed down and I feel like I can breath again. The week has been an exercise in survival.  So how have I got through the week and kept a smile on my face. For me, this is when my sewing, knitting and other projects become extremely important. They help to keep me calm, give my brain time to reset and make me very happy. So let's focus on the fun activates this week.

Earlier this month I added the binding to the Happy quilt and slowly  over the week I managed to make time to get it all stitched down. I really like this quilt, it makes me smile. 

This quilt is staying home with us. None of us need a new quilt on our beds and we have quilts for snuggling when watching TV but you can't have too many quilts, can you? I really enjoyed stitching the binding down on the quilt it was so relaxing.

Having finished the Happy quilt I turned my attention to the Christmas quilt. This needed to be sandwiched and so I looked for a suitable backing fabric. In the end I had to join the backing fabric. I also pulled out my wadding but unfortunately even if I joined it I didn't have enough wadding for the quilt and so I've ordered some online.  I have a neat pile of quilt and backing fabric all ready for when the wadding arrives. The wadding I have will be used for smaller projects.

Since I couldn't get on with the Christmas quilt I pulled out a couple of quick projects to make.

At work, we needed an office advent calendar and this one will be perfect for the number of people in the office. The castle at the back of the photo is to make a dragon hanging caddy for grandson's pencils etc.  Over the day I got the pockets made for the advent calendar and made a start on the dragons.

I'd forgotten how long it takes to make the pockets for the advent calendars and had expected to complete it quite quickly. I'd also pulled out some fabric to make robins for Christmas and found the cat squares to make a cushion for my son and the duck squares to make my grandson a cushion for his room. 

I finished my sewing activities and then decided to make some stollen. It is delicious but I forgot to take a photo. Having had a delightful day sewing and cooking on Sunday I was well rested and ready to go back to work today. Monday is my admin day and I spent a couple of hours completing my yearly update training for cyber security and data protection. 

Here in London UK the weather is turning colder and we have rain forecast for the whole of this week.  We can't really complain as we have had a long run of dry and warm weather. The trees are slowly dropping their leaves and we are getting more birds visiting our bird feeders. When I take the dogs out for their morning walk at about 6:15 it is still fairly dark and it will be very dark in another week or two.

I hope everything is going well where you are. I'm sorry I haven't responded to comments recently due to pressure of work but I will be doing so this week.

Take care

Lyndsey