Six years ago this October I went with my mother-in-law to Gardner Village to do a little shopping. I was expecting my first little one and I remember that it was the Halloween season because all of the little shops were decorated cute and spooky. We went into one store and I bought a few patterns of "stitching" projects.
I naively thought that I would have time on my maternity leave that I would need something to do. I did start it on my maternity leave but it got stashed away for a few years. I pulled it out and stitched all the letters except for the X. I didn't like that the X was for X-Mas because Christ is the whole meaning of Christmas.
So it remained nearly done without the X until General Conference weekend when I finally finished it. I went with my husband's suggestion of doing Xylophone for X (he is a musician).
I quilted and bound it this weekend with my unexpected free time (we were supposed to be on vacation but our family is sick). I kept it simple. Now that it is all done I wonder what I am going to do with it - we have moved twice since then and our family has grown.
I am on a quest to finish all of my "in progress" projects before I start another one. Projects in the queue: finishing up a Christmas table runner (probably from the same time period), my Easter quilt (pieced last March) and a Chevron quilt I started piecing last summer before we moved. I imagine I will find more "in progress" projects... but that is all I can think of for now.
2 comments:
Way to go and work on those pesky unfinished projects! And that quilt has a ton of stitching - that would try my patience.
That one is soo sweet! I love it. Very nice. I think I stole some of your maternity sewing time with my pesky pillows! I take all the blame for this one! :)
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