Energized

I sewed the hanging sleeves on yesterday without pinning. Sometimes skipping a step is not a good thing. I had to rip them out and redo them. But now it's really done, hanging sleeves and label. Yay me.

I also marked out the inner square of Johanna's chuppah on my design wall. The shul's chuppah frame is 96 inches square. That's one big chuppah. And since I am assuming that Johanna and Warren may want to use the chuppah as a wall hanging, I decided to make an inner square of 48" with a 2 foot wide perimeter which can be detached after the wedding.
I am mapping out the design so I get the elements in (what I consider to be) proportion to the background. Since the background may be a piece of silk that Johanna's bringing me tomorrow, I'm kind of stuck moving forward until then when I see what she's got.

However, I decided that I should do something creative and have finally started finishing some leftover crazy quilt blocks. And since they're the colour palette of the remnants from the dress my mother had sewn for my brother's wedding, I framed two blocks and now have a small project to do handwork on. I won't be able to take it with me because the handwork involves beading, buttons, trims, and embroidery with multiple colours (too much stuff to shlepp and too much possibility for spillage). But I would like to get this one finished soon, either for the next library exhibit or just so it's done.

I should make a list, prioritized of my outstanding projects. By outstanding projects I mean the ones which I have either started or need to finish by a specific date.

Here they are:

#1 Johanna and Warren's chuppah
#2 My slice of the F.A.T. slice quilt
#3 The quilt from Marty's ties (I finally decided how I want to do it -- simple and uncomplicated)
#4 Crazy quilt projects (I think aside from the one mentioned above, there's only one more)

And then I can tackle the baby quilts, nursing aprons, etc.

So, I'd better grab myself a cup of coffee to fortify myself and get started.