Adjusting...

As you know I have swapped shifts at work. This has been my first week of 7am starts after three years of starting work at 3pm. It's been a bit of a struggle I have to say. Not the getting up and being lively in the early hours, I was doing that anyway, no the struggle is when I get home, I have very little left in the tank and need most of that for chores and food prep. I thought I might get in to my room before work each day, but with no active projects calling out for attention, that didn't happen. I have managed to do some mindless tasks in the evenings. I spent quite a bit of time preparing more 3/4 inch hexies.

And covering them with pretty batiks.

I need to have a tidy up in the batik drawer to see if there are anymore smaller pieces that could be used up here. I still didn't decide what to do with these pieces yet but I'm sure inspiration will strike one day, meanwhile I'll keep adding to the tin.

While I'm on the topic of EPP, I did also manage to get another row of blocks added to my spots and stripes project.

My pile of premade blocks is getting low so I need to join a few more diamonds. I've also pulled some papers from the middle of this section so I could get more cut and prepared too.  

All of the above makes for good evening jobs if only I could motivate myself to do a little more. 

Finally I have my days off. Yay! A whole weekend. I have left a note on the roster that I am not available for call in so hopefully I can get on and do something creative.

This morning started with a quick zoom with Chooky and some of the Scrub Stitchers. As you can imagine there is lots going on and lots to see as Janice and Chooky went around the room looking at all the different projects. 

And it inspired me, I wanted to sew along with them. 

I pulled out my scrappy triangles project. I started these back in 2022, and dabbled a little more with them last year. Somehow I have ended up with three different sized blocks. Today I sorted them out and after a little trimming I have a bundle all the same size, (And a few smaller blocks, I'll use them somewhere).

It felt good to be playing with these again.

I printed some more paper foundations and measured twice to make sure they were the correct size. LOL

Then prepared my fabric pieces and sat down to sew.

Tada!  Two more blocks for the collection.

Then a brainwave struck. Why not cut and prepare blocks in to mini kits, all ready for 15 minutes in the  mornings? Or even for after work?

So that is what I did, each of these wee bags has precut fabrics for two more blocks. That's six in total. Hopefully that will keep me going until my next couple of days off.

While it is not a scrappy kit to take along to club, they are still scrappy kits, so I'll count them as one of my monthly goals.

Bonus!

I plan to spend this afternoon cross stitching on one of the two ornaments I'm supposed to be making this month. I feel like I'm under pressure and may not finish!

Tomorrow morning we are heading about an hour up the road to collect a new toy for me.

No, not a sewing toy.

A push bike.

It might be nice to ride too and from work instead of taking the car every day.

That's the thinking.......

I'm not sure what I'll do when we get back, maybe prep some more scrappy triangles?

Maybe sit and do some EPP.

I should do some cross stitch tomorrow, to try and catch up to my own ambitions. LOL

I'll keep you posted.

What ever I do, I'll have to stop and put it away when the children arrive. 

I had better have a tidy up and put some projects away before they get here too.

I'm off to sew.