So I decide to start another project for March since it is only the 2nd. I decided to do something easy to have some instant gratification. I am making a table cloth to put over my sewing table so I can use it as a table next to my comfy reading chair (that needs to be recovered). I will keep the sewing machine under it so it is easy to just put on the table and use but it will look nice and be hidden the rest of the time.
Well my "easy" project turned out to be not so easy. I wanted to make a white table cloth. I was sure I had some plain white cloth in the closet but it turns out I used it all up when making my blue & white quilt. I had a bunch of scraps left from the quilt and from making my dress for the wedding in Sept so I thought I could piece those together to make the quilt. I thought about how to piece it to make it look good and I came up with the idea to weave strips together and then sew across all the strips so it would hold together. I thought it would very cool. Well it turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought.
First I measured the table and the 4 sides. I then outlined the pattern would look like on the floor with masking tape. Then I cut up all the strips into 4 1/2 wide pieces and laid them out on the floor to fill in the pattern. I had almost enough but still needed 3 more strips to finish and all I had were some very oddly shaped pieces. So I had to sew a bunch of small pieces together to get the last few strips. Now I need to iron all of them and figure out how to weave them on the floor maybe using weights our something and then pin the whole thing so it will stay together while I sew it. It will look really cool but is definitely not a one day project. I will post pictures once it is finished. =)
And working on it took my whole day Sunday and I didn't get anything on my to do list done.
To do list for the weekend - that did not get done
- Clean Closet and organize clothes (half done)
- Inventory Goodwill items and take them down to Goodwill
- Get a disk of pictures ready for the yearbook folks that they wanted 2 weeks ago.
- Go through and organize the girls sock/undies drawer.
- Fix the wireless network so the computers can talk to each other again.
Things not on my to do list that did get done
- Mow the lawns
- Weed most of the back yard (my legs are killing me)
- Clean off and move desk.
- Start on table cloth.
So I was productive but on the wrong stuff. lol