Unenergetic

Gibbs was mad at me the other day while I was vacuuming.  He went into my cave and was quite comfortable on my Heartfelt Quilt to be.

I have not been super energetic.  We are still having a very cool, grey and at times drizzly spring.  Right now, we have warmed up to 57 and it is dripping outside.  We are supposed to have sun in about an hour.  Shall see.  

I need to get outside and do more weeding.  But the grey and wet make me unenergetic.  That slides over to my house and hand work inside.

I was caught by a squirrel.  Another project bag from Shepard's Bush in Ogden, Utah.  My stitching buddy showed this to me and now the bag is done except for the button decorations.  I need to get set up to stitch the pin cushion and scissor fob.

Our annual town meeting was held on Tuesday.  This is where the town budget is reviewed and voted on.  There were also 29 warrants to review, discuss and vote on.  (We are a town of 3038 people at the 2020 census.)  We have 2193 registered voters, 130 showed up for the meeting.  It can get rowdy, but this year was nice, quiet and behaved.  

Before the town meeting I made one motif of row 11 of my tatting. Eight more were tatted during the town meeting.  More were made on Wednesday during a trip to Boston.  Yesterday I was sitting in a waiting room and tatted a ring.  Then un-tatted as I counted wrong.  Glad I caught it before I closed the ring.

My Heartfelt Quilt has two borders on it now.  Removed and redid part of the HST border as I was not happy with it.

I like this border and corners better that the pattern asked for.  In the pattern the red of the HST is next to the cream border.  I like it flipped.  Also, I like my corners all the same, so I have made the goose area to flip the HSTs.  

Talk about lazy.  The next two borders have not been cut as I have to measure how long to make them.  I measured for the next border when I took this picture. I will make the next side borders, measure and keep going until it is done.  

Jo at Jo's Country Junction had a "Stitch-A-L0ng" for early June.  My stitching is done.  This week I need to have some finishes.  Enough of being lazy.  (I have written it, now to do it.)

I will be linking up to Kathy's Quilts and her Slow Sunday Stitching.  May you enjoy your threads today.  

 

Errors

I have been working on the yard this week and last.  Not a lot of piecing, quilting or hand work was done except for tatting.  Even then I felt like I was doing more un-tatting then tatting.  

This picture is one of many errors that I did.  I had finished working in the garden for the morning and was sitting on the deck listening to the birds and tatting.  On the right I had twisted the group of three rings.  (I should have changed my jeans before the picture.  Took the pic with my phone.)  I was so frustrated with myself.  It was un-tatted. 

This is from last night.  See that loop at the tip of my shuttle?  I just didn't snug up the thread as it must have been twisted and then it popped loose.  Again, I un-tatted.  It takes longer to un-tat than to tat.  I worked on this for one and a half hours.  I could have just cut the thread, fussed to rejoin and move on.  But I do like the challenge.  Really??  Only when it is a quick un-tat.  This one drove me nuts.

It also drove Ziva nuts.  She wanted my chair as it was past her bedtime.  She did take a couple of swipes at the shuttle which she usually ignores.

Error was fixed, tatting was put aside, and I went to bed.  So did Ziva.  The minute I put the blanket on my chair she moved in.  

I will be outside in an hour.  Have another weeding job scheduled to do this morning.  We had rain yesterday, so no weeding or clean-up was done.

Until then I will try to finish off this row of tatting.  I have two motifs to finish.  I hope for no un-tatting on this last bit.  This row has been a trial.  Not hard to remember the pattern.  That is probably why the errors.  My mind wanders.

Linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.  Enjoy your threads.