After writing my last blog entry, I did manage to get some sleep. A whole fours hours worth. Killian's warm milk did help. But the last two weeks have been crazy. I got back to work and I had forgotten my boss would be out the first half of the week. I ended up working 11 hours that day. Then on Wednesday, I found out that the other supervisor was going to be out but I thought it was only for a few days. The following Monday my boss had to go to his other plant due to a crisis. That left just me to run the department. I've done it before but that was before our work load increased exponentially. I didn't work less than 10 hour days all week. I was really looking forward to being able to sew this past weekend. Sewing is my stress relief.
But alas it was not to be. My son in law Jeramie was seriously injured at work on Friday. The text my daughter sent to my husband and I started with he's alive but on his way to the hospital. He was electrocuted on the job. He has 3rd and 4th degree burns on his hands and compression fractures in two of his vertebra. We are very fortunate it wasn't worse. Any way we have had the two little ones while they went up to Augusta, GA to the burn center. They will be coming home tonight and my wonderful son Killian has chosen to take off work the next two days to help out. So not much sewing time.
I did manage to squeeze is some sewing over the past two weeks. I stitched several of my 2 inch squares into 2 unit pieces. Most of that was done the first week. The second week I did the pressing of the units. I am hoping that this week will afford me more time to sew. I could really use the stress relief. But I am grateful I did have the little squares prepped and ready to sew. It made life easier to be able to sit down for just a few minutes and run a few squares through the machine.
In her blog/videos Karen Brown talks about taming your scraps by cutting them into strips and blocks that you either use often or are going to need for a scrappy project coming up. I am going to start employing this technique so I always have something on hand for quick stress relief. that is after I put my studio back together. It is the Kid's favorite place to hang out. Mine too.
If you haven't checked out Karen Brown's videos, you should. They are on You Tube - Just Get It Done Quilts. I've subscribed to her channel and followed her on Facebook. The videos are definitely worth the time. None are very long and I've watched some of them multiple times. Just be careful that they don't become time busters for you.
That it's for this week. Hope that your life is less crazy than mine. Keep on stitching.
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