The dangers of meandering....long

I decided, a week or so ago, that as I had just finished (all
'cept the borders) the stars and plaids quilt top (it's
gorgeous) and hadn't quite figured out what I want to do on the
borders yet, and seeing as I quite self righteously had cleaned
the bathroom and done the laundry on Thursday, thought I might
dig out some of the fabric I've been stashing for clothes and
make something for MYSELF! Started sewing a blue and white
striped shirt...and discovered, much to my joy, that after
several years of the intricate and meticulous work required on
quilt projects, the sewing of a simple shirt is, plumb EASY!

So, last Friday night the shirt project got, about midnight, to
the stage where the collar is pinned on and ready to
stitch...then the call to sleep just overcame me and off I
went. Saturday morning I jumped up to rush off to the library
to work on a paper, got to the subway, got my coffee, and found
I just did not have one drop of energy for studying, nor the
patience to put up with the teenagers who use the library for
social activities and do not understand the word "QUIET", even
when the library guy comes around and admonishes them.

Went home, went back to sleep, and got up refreshed and ready
to tackle anything...except the paper. So I cleaned out my
bedroom closet...hmmm...found all kinds of interesting things,
some of which will show up in some of your mailboxes over the
next while. Organized the stash I have hidden in there ( along
with the batting stash)...dusted, swept, even had the courage to
throw out a few old pieces of clothing, then left them in a
stack on the unmade bed.

Found in the closet some very old paperwork I needed to sort
through, and spent most of the rest of Saturday going through
that. Filled a whole recycling bin (the apartment sized kind)
with old bills, notes I could never stand to throw away, some of
them from y'all, but finally did (I mean, do I NEED four copies
of the Pilla Case instructions, when I have the site bookmarked
in my web files?) Didn't QUITE finish, and rolled off to bed
again at midnight.

Sunday was the Needlework festival, and before I could go there
I need to take stock of what bits and pieces I needed to look
for. So out came the three or four projects I had to review to
see what I needed. (bright madras-style plaids for my sister,
various borders for 3 quilts, and some plaids to finish the
setting squares on a UFO.) Didn't have time to put everything
away.

Off to the festival...in a HUGE hall at the convention
centre...too big, not well lit, and with the same old vendors I
see there every year...with nothing really new. (Have you
noticed this?) The had lots of FQ's, very little yardage and
many, many expensive quilt kits. I enjoyed it, but there was
just too much to look at. (There were some amazingly well
quilted (by machine) quilts on display!)Came home having spent
only $12.08...but did get some nice FQ's for my sister's
Christmas package.

Stopped to buy a chicken and veg, got home and was reminded
that a shelf in the fridge had come loose earlier, and in my
rush to leave I had taken it out propped it against the wall,
and left it for later (which would ultimately require cleaning
and reorganizing of the shelf contents and the vegetable
crispers.). Now there was no place to put the chicken and veg
until time to cook dinner. So heck...they stayed on the counter!

Finally got dinner in the oven and swiped a spot clean on the
table for schoolwork...(why move the gynormous cutting board, I
can just work on it) and while dinner cooked, I got caught up on
my reading and research. About 8 p.m., after dinner, I had a
look around: the sum result of my very busy weekend (apart from
the cleaned closet) was: a recycling box sitting in the middle
of the LR floor, right next to the table where my unfinished
piles of paper to be sorted sit; four or five UFO's thrown about
in various places, and in some cases their assorted fabrics
flung about with them; a stack of t-shirts to give away sitting
on the bed (still not made), the unfinished shirt hanging neatly
on the ironing board...but unfinished, dinner dishes to be done
sitting on the kitchen counter, and the leftovers to be put away
AFTER the fridge got fixed....and finally, piles of school work
on the green cutting board on the table.

Guess what I'm doing tonight???

Cheers,

Lynne in Toronto

Going out so you don't have to look at that mess!

--
LN in NH
a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér
all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts!
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed

"Lynne Van" wrote in message
...


I decided, a week or so ago, that as I had just finished (all
'cept the borders) the stars and plaids quilt top (it's
gorgeous) and hadn't quite figured out what I want to do on the
borders yet, and seeing as I quite self righteously had cleaned
the bathroom and done the laundry on Thursday, thought I might
dig out some of the fabric I've been stashing for clothes and
make something for MYSELF! Started sewing a blue and white
striped shirt...and discovered, much to my joy, that after
several years of the intricate and meticulous work required on
quilt projects, the sewing of a simple shirt is, plumb EASY!

So, last Friday night the shirt project got, about midnight, to
the stage where the collar is pinned on and ready to
stitch...then the call to sleep just overcame me and off I
went. Saturday morning I jumped up to rush off to the library
to work on a paper, got to the subway, got my coffee, and found
I just did not have one drop of energy for studying, nor the
patience to put up with the teenagers who use the library for
social activities and do not understand the word "QUIET", even
when the library guy comes around and admonishes them.

Went home, went back to sleep, and got up refreshed and ready
to tackle anything...except the paper. So I cleaned out my
bedroom closet...hmmm...found all kinds of interesting things,
some of which will show up in some of your mailboxes over the
next while. Organized the stash I have hidden in there ( along
with the batting stash)...dusted, swept, even had the courage to
throw out a few old pieces of clothing, then left them in a
stack on the unmade bed.

Found in the closet some very old paperwork I needed to sort
through, and spent most of the rest of Saturday going through
that. Filled a whole recycling bin (the apartment sized kind)
with old bills, notes I could never stand to throw away, some of
them from y'all, but finally did (I mean, do I NEED four copies
of the Pilla Case instructions, when I have the site bookmarked
in my web files?) Didn't QUITE finish, and rolled off to bed
again at midnight.

Sunday was the Needlework festival, and before I could go there
I need to take stock of what bits and pieces I needed to look
for. So out came the three or four projects I had to review to
see what I needed. (bright madras-style plaids for my sister,
various borders for 3 quilts, and some plaids to finish the
setting squares on a UFO.) Didn't have time to put everything
away.

Off to the festival...in a HUGE hall at the convention
centre...too big, not well lit, and with the same old vendors I
see there every year...with nothing really new. (Have you
noticed this?) The had lots of FQ's, very little yardage and
many, many expensive quilt kits. I enjoyed it, but there was
just too much to look at. (There were some amazingly well
quilted (by machine) quilts on display!)Came home having spent
only $12.08...but did get some nice FQ's for my sister's
Christmas package.

Stopped to buy a chicken and veg, got home and was reminded
that a shelf in the fridge had come loose earlier, and in my
rush to leave I had taken it out propped it against the wall,
and left it for later (which would ultimately require cleaning
and reorganizing of the shelf contents and the vegetable
crispers.). Now there was no place to put the chicken and veg
until time to cook dinner. So heck...they stayed on the counter!

Finally got dinner in the oven and swiped a spot clean on the
table for schoolwork...(why move the gynormous cutting board, I
can just work on it) and while dinner cooked, I got caught up on
my reading and research. About 8 p.m., after dinner, I had a
look around: the sum result of my very busy weekend (apart from
the cleaned closet) was: a recycling box sitting in the middle
of the LR floor, right next to the table where my unfinished
piles of paper to be sorted sit; four or five UFO's thrown about
in various places, and in some cases their assorted fabrics
flung about with them; a stack of t-shirts to give away sitting
on the bed (still not made), the unfinished shirt hanging neatly
on the ironing board...but unfinished, dinner dishes to be done
sitting on the kitchen counter, and the leftovers to be put away
AFTER the fridge got fixed....and finally, piles of school work
on the green cutting board on the table.

Guess what I'm doing tonight???

Cheers,

Lynne in Toronto

I do it often...hehe.
--
Jalynne
Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request)
see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
I like that option.]
Di

--
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
...
Going out so you don't have to look at that mess!

--
LN in NH
a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér
all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts!
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed

"Lynne Van" wrote in message
...


I decided, a week or so ago, that as I had just finished (all
'cept the borders) the stars and plaids quilt top (it's
gorgeous) and hadn't quite figured out what I want to do on the
borders yet, and seeing as I quite self righteously had cleaned
the bathroom and done the laundry on Thursday, thought I might
dig out some of the fabric I've been stashing for clothes and
make something for MYSELF! Started sewing a blue and white
striped shirt...and discovered, much to my joy, that after
several years of the intricate and meticulous work required on
quilt projects, the sewing of a simple shirt is, plumb EASY!

So, last Friday night the shirt project got, about midnight, to
the stage where the collar is pinned on and ready to
stitch...then the call to sleep just overcame me and off I
went. Saturday morning I jumped up to rush off to the library
to work on a paper, got to the subway, got my coffee, and found
I just did not have one drop of energy for studying, nor the
patience to put up with the teenagers who use the library for
social activities and do not understand the word "QUIET", even
when the library guy comes around and admonishes them.

Went home, went back to sleep, and got up refreshed and ready
to tackle anything...except the paper. So I cleaned out my
bedroom closet...hmmm...found all kinds of interesting things,
some of which will show up in some of your mailboxes over the
next while. Organized the stash I have hidden in there ( along
with the batting stash)...dusted, swept, even had the courage to
throw out a few old pieces of clothing, then left them in a
stack on the unmade bed.

Found in the closet some very old paperwork I needed to sort
through, and spent most of the rest of Saturday going through
that. Filled a whole recycling bin (the apartment sized kind)
with old bills, notes I could never stand to throw away, some of
them from y'all, but finally did (I mean, do I NEED four copies
of the Pilla Case instructions, when I have the site bookmarked
in my web files?) Didn't QUITE finish, and rolled off to bed
again at midnight.

Sunday was the Needlework festival, and before I could go there
I need to take stock of what bits and pieces I needed to look
for. So out came the three or four projects I had to review to
see what I needed. (bright madras-style plaids for my sister,
various borders for 3 quilts, and some plaids to finish the
setting squares on a UFO.) Didn't have time to put everything
away.

Off to the festival...in a HUGE hall at the convention
centre...too big, not well lit, and with the same old vendors I
see there every year...with nothing really new. (Have you
noticed this?) The had lots of FQ's, very little yardage and
many, many expensive quilt kits. I enjoyed it, but there was
just too much to look at. (There were some amazingly well
quilted (by machine) quilts on display!)Came home having spent
only $12.08...but did get some nice FQ's for my sister's
Christmas package.

Stopped to buy a chicken and veg, got home and was reminded
that a shelf in the fridge had come loose earlier, and in my
rush to leave I had taken it out propped it against the wall,
and left it for later (which would ultimately require cleaning
and reorganizing of the shelf contents and the vegetable
crispers.). Now there was no place to put the chicken and veg
until time to cook dinner. So heck...they stayed on the counter!

Finally got dinner in the oven and swiped a spot clean on the
table for schoolwork...(why move the gynormous cutting board, I
can just work on it) and while dinner cooked, I got caught up on
my reading and research. About 8 p.m., after dinner, I had a
look around: the sum result of my very busy weekend (apart from
the cleaned closet) was: a recycling box sitting in the middle
of the LR floor, right next to the table where my unfinished
piles of paper to be sorted sit; four or five UFO's thrown about
in various places, and in some cases their assorted fabrics
flung about with them; a stack of t-shirts to give away sitting
on the bed (still not made), the unfinished shirt hanging neatly
on the ironing board...but unfinished, dinner dishes to be done
sitting on the kitchen counter, and the leftovers to be put away
AFTER the fridge got fixed....and finally, piles of school work
on the green cutting board on the table.

Guess what I'm doing tonight???

Cheers,

Lynne in Toronto

I like that option.]
Di

--
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
...
Going out so you don't have to look at that mess!

--
LN in NH
a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér
all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts!
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed

"Lynne Van" wrote in message
...


I decided, a week or so ago, that as I had just finished (all
'cept the borders) the stars and plaids quilt top (it's
gorgeous) and hadn't quite figured out what I want to do on the
borders yet, and seeing as I quite self righteously had cleaned
the bathroom and done the laundry on Thursday, thought I might
dig out some of the fabric I've been stashing for clothes and
make something for MYSELF! Started sewing a blue and white
striped shirt...and discovered, much to my joy, that after
several years of the intricate and meticulous work required on
quilt projects, the sewing of a simple shirt is, plumb EASY!

So, last Friday night the shirt project got, about midnight, to
the stage where the collar is pinned on and ready to
stitch...then the call to sleep just overcame me and off I
went. Saturday morning I jumped up to rush off to the library
to work on a paper, got to the subway, got my coffee, and found
I just did not have one drop of energy for studying, nor the
patience to put up with the teenagers who use the library for
social activities and do not understand the word "QUIET", even
when the library guy comes around and admonishes them.

Went home, went back to sleep, and got up refreshed and ready
to tackle anything...except the paper. So I cleaned out my
bedroom closet...hmmm...found all kinds of interesting things,
some of which will show up in some of your mailboxes over the
next while. Organized the stash I have hidden in there ( along
with the batting stash)...dusted, swept, even had the courage to
throw out a few old pieces of clothing, then left them in a
stack on the unmade bed.

Found in the closet some very old paperwork I needed to sort
through, and spent most of the rest of Saturday going through
that. Filled a whole recycling bin (the apartment sized kind)
with old bills, notes I could never stand to throw away, some of
them from y'all, but finally did (I mean, do I NEED four copies
of the Pilla Case instructions, when I have the site bookmarked
in my web files?) Didn't QUITE finish, and rolled off to bed
again at midnight.

Sunday was the Needlework festival, and before I could go there
I need to take stock of what bits and pieces I needed to look
for. So out came the three or four projects I had to review to
see what I needed. (bright madras-style plaids for my sister,
various borders for 3 quilts, and some plaids to finish the
setting squares on a UFO.) Didn't have time to put everything
away.

Off to the festival...in a HUGE hall at the convention
centre...too big, not well lit, and with the same old vendors I
see there every year...with nothing really new. (Have you
noticed this?) The had lots of FQ's, very little yardage and
many, many expensive quilt kits. I enjoyed it, but there was
just too much to look at. (There were some amazingly well
quilted (by machine) quilts on display!)Came home having spent
only $12.08...but did get some nice FQ's for my sister's
Christmas package.

Stopped to buy a chicken and veg, got home and was reminded
that a shelf in the fridge had come loose earlier, and in my
rush to leave I had taken it out propped it against the wall,
and left it for later (which would ultimately require cleaning
and reorganizing of the shelf contents and the vegetable
crispers.). Now there was no place to put the chicken and veg
until time to cook dinner. So heck...they stayed on the counter!

Finally got dinner in the oven and swiped a spot clean on the
table for schoolwork...(why move the gynormous cutting board, I
can just work on it) and while dinner cooked, I got caught up on
my reading and research. About 8 p.m., after dinner, I had a
look around: the sum result of my very busy weekend (apart from
the cleaned closet) was: a recycling box sitting in the middle
of the LR floor, right next to the table where my unfinished
piles of paper to be sorted sit; four or five UFO's thrown about
in various places, and in some cases their assorted fabrics
flung about with them; a stack of t-shirts to give away sitting
on the bed (still not made), the unfinished shirt hanging neatly
on the ironing board...but unfinished, dinner dishes to be done
sitting on the kitchen counter, and the leftovers to be put away
AFTER the fridge got fixed....and finally, piles of school work
on the green cutting board on the table.

Guess what I'm doing tonight???

Cheers,

Lynne in Toronto

I'm with you every step of the way, Lynne. Except for the school
work,---hummmm
OK, substitute stacks of "stuff" in the dining room,--each one going
someplace else A stack for the car, a stack for the common area of the
building, a stack for the recyclables, a stack of fabric, and so forth
and so on. This is normal, everyday life around here. Ifyou are upset
with your meandering mess,--it is obvious that you are stressed and
needed this weekend. Relax and remember my mantra.--- If I should die,
before I wake, somebody else has to clean this mess up!! Roll right over
and go to sleep. RedQueen

Dear Red Queen - it goes this way
"If I shoud die before I wake,
How would I know ?,
For Goodness Sake . . . "
Polly


"Judy Grevenites" wrote in message
...
I'm with you every step of the way, Lynne. Except for the school
work,---hummmm
OK, substitute stacks of "stuff" in the dining room,--each one going
someplace else A stack for the car, a stack for the common area of the
building, a stack for the recyclables, a stack of fabric, and so forth
and so on. This is normal, everyday life around here. Ifyou are upset
with your meandering mess,--it is obvious that you are stressed and
needed this weekend. Relax and remember my mantra.--- If I should die,
before I wake, somebody else has to clean this mess up!! Roll right over
and go to sleep. RedQueen

I can always measure progress in any cleaning or organizing job by how much
worse it looks than before I began. The Abracadabra part has to look like
the leavings of a tornado before the Shazam! part can work.
Nell in Austin
"Lynne Van" wrote in message
...


I decided, a week or so ago, that as I had just finished (all
'cept the borders) the stars and plaids quilt top (it's
gorgeous) and hadn't quite figured out what I want to do on the
borders yet, and seeing as I quite self righteously had cleaned
the bathroom and done the laundry on Thursday, thought I might
dig out some of the fabric I've been stashing for clothes and
make something for MYSELF! Started sewing a blue and white
striped shirt...and discovered, much to my joy, that after
several years of the intricate and meticulous work required on
quilt projects, the sewing of a simple shirt is, plumb EASY!

So, last Friday night the shirt project got, about midnight, to
the stage where the collar is pinned on and ready to
stitch...then the call to sleep just overcame me and off I
went. Saturday morning I jumped up to rush off to the library
to work on a paper, got to the subway, got my coffee, and found
I just did not have one drop of energy for studying, nor the
patience to put up with the teenagers who use the library for
social activities and do not understand the word "QUIET", even
when the library guy comes around and admonishes them.

Went home, went back to sleep, and got up refreshed and ready
to tackle anything...except the paper. So I cleaned out my
bedroom closet...hmmm...found all kinds of interesting things,
some of which will show up in some of your mailboxes over the
next while. Organized the stash I have hidden in there ( along
with the batting stash)...dusted, swept, even had the courage to
throw out a few old pieces of clothing, then left them in a
stack on the unmade bed.

Found in the closet some very old paperwork I needed to sort
through, and spent most of the rest of Saturday going through
that. Filled a whole recycling bin (the apartment sized kind)
with old bills, notes I could never stand to throw away, some of
them from y'all, but finally did (I mean, do I NEED four copies
of the Pilla Case instructions, when I have the site bookmarked
in my web files?) Didn't QUITE finish, and rolled off to bed
again at midnight.

Sunday was the Needlework festival, and before I could go there
I need to take stock of what bits and pieces I needed to look
for. So out came the three or four projects I had to review to
see what I needed. (bright madras-style plaids for my sister,
various borders for 3 quilts, and some plaids to finish the
setting squares on a UFO.) Didn't have time to put everything
away.

Off to the festival...in a HUGE hall at the convention
centre...too big, not well lit, and with the same old vendors I
see there every year...with nothing really new. (Have you
noticed this?) The had lots of FQ's, very little yardage and
many, many expensive quilt kits. I enjoyed it, but there was
just too much to look at. (There were some amazingly well
quilted (by machine) quilts on display!)Came home having spent
only $12.08...but did get some nice FQ's for my sister's
Christmas package.

Stopped to buy a chicken and veg, got home and was reminded
that a shelf in the fridge had come loose earlier, and in my
rush to leave I had taken it out propped it against the wall,
and left it for later (which would ultimately require cleaning
and reorganizing of the shelf contents and the vegetable
crispers.). Now there was no place to put the chicken and veg
until time to cook dinner. So heck...they stayed on the counter!

Finally got dinner in the oven and swiped a spot clean on the
table for schoolwork...(why move the gynormous cutting board, I
can just work on it) and while dinner cooked, I got caught up on
my reading and research. About 8 p.m., after dinner, I had a
look around: the sum result of my very busy weekend (apart from
the cleaned closet) was: a recycling box sitting in the middle
of the LR floor, right next to the table where my unfinished
piles of paper to be sorted sit; four or five UFO's thrown about
in various places, and in some cases their assorted fabrics
flung about with them; a stack of t-shirts to give away sitting
on the bed (still not made), the unfinished shirt hanging neatly
on the ironing board...but unfinished, dinner dishes to be done
sitting on the kitchen counter, and the leftovers to be put away
AFTER the fridge got fixed....and finally, piles of school work
on the green cutting board on the table.

Guess what I'm doing tonight???

Cheers,

Lynne in Toronto

Judy so nice to see you posting again. Thanks to all for your
giggly notes.

I will un-meander this weekend...watch for exciting news!!

Cheers,

Lynne in Toronto
......................................

Judy Grevenites wrote:

I'm with you every step of the way, Lynne. Except for the school
work,---hummmm
OK, substitute stacks of "stuff" in the dining room,--each one going
someplace else A stack for the car, a stack for the common area of the
building, a stack for the recyclables, a stack of fabric, and so forth
and so on. This is normal, everyday life around here. Ifyou are upset
with your meandering mess,--it is obvious that you are stressed and
needed this weekend. Relax and remember my mantra.--- If I should die,
before I wake, somebody else has to clean this mess up!! Roll right over
and go to sleep. RedQueen