Not enough hours in the day ....

My husband is feeling pretty good about himself after receiving your approval regarding my birthday present. Hopefully this will encourage him to out do himself next year :) . I had a great time in Sydney although my plane left Melbourne at 6.30am not 7.30 as I had thought so that was a challenge - to make sure that I didn't meet myself going to bed when I got up at 3.30 in the morning. Poor Sue struggled a little with my colour choices & just took deep breaths regarding my need to enlarge the design ... but she coped (I think). The ladies that I met were all delightful and took very good care of me.

So to ensure that I get enough value from these classes I have decided that need to make sure that I get enough of the quilt done between now and the 2nd of May when I go up for the second class.

In the original quilt there are over 300 clam shells so mine will have even more than this as my quilt is that bit bigger. I worked out that if I do 25 a day for 14 days I'd have 350 completed which would be a good start. Plus, the quilt is 'quilt as you go' and she has quilted it using pearl 8 in straight lines across the center of the quilt 1" apart before completing the applique! When she said this I sunk deeply into my chair, thinking "I'll never get this quilt made". Then on the flight home I worked out that if I do 5 lines a day for 16 days I'd have finished the quilting and could make a good start on the applique before the next class. "Yay! I can do that", I thought.

Well it must have been the tiredness on the plane or something because although my plan sounded good it is not going so well thus far. I am 4 days into it and I have only managed 8 rows of quilting - it takes me 40 minutes to complete one row! The clam shell are going that bit better as I have 100 of them completed - they are easy!

In addition to this I have the 'secret project' that I should have had finished before the Sydney trip so I wouldn't need to worry about it now. The quilt top of this project has been completed so sometime this week I will try and sandwich it up and machine quilt it.

And last but not least I have another exciting thing lined up that I can't really talk about yet other than to say that I have another dead line - which is actually due the first Monday in June but because I am gong up to Sydney in May (which is where it needs to be delivered) I hope to take it with me then. Nothing like a little bit of self imposed pressure.

I should go because Joshua has just told me for the 150th time that he doesn't want a shower ... I want to know who told him he had a choice? Rush hour in our house isn't really rush hour ... more like rush 5 hours with homework, reading, play, bathing, eating & 'trying to kill Mummy' time who has time to post on a blog .... not me!

Kellie

PS. I have been tagged again, again! Lisa I will get to this very soon I promice! 

Comments

[Lisa]

Sleep is over rated!! You sure have a busy schedule lined up but your projects look worthy of sleep deprivation. I love the colours you have selected for your Sydney quilt. Can't wait to see it emerge over the coming months!

[tracey petersen]

All of that maths was making my brain hurt! Some times my mantra becomes I can only do what I can do.

I am sending my deadline off tomorrow. I don't have the luxury of hand delivering it!!

[Cathy]

you are such a busy girl. I don't know how you do it. The colours of your quilt look amazing.

[meggie]

Those colours are lovely! You are very busy! The older I get the less pressure I put on myself re deadlines etc. Age has some good points!

[upstatelisa]

I can hardly wait to see what it looks like!!!

[Jodie]

Can't wait to see what DH does for your b'day next year to top this one!!!
I love all of the fabric you've chosen for your quilt and the little surprise one is looking so gorgeous, I'm looking so forward to seeing the end result..

[Jade]

I love the colours you're using....and those scallop patch pieces are my fave. Actually I've been looking for a generic scallop patchwork pattern. Do you know of one?