Binding on ....check.......

I love the Tour (de France)!  I sat and stitched the binding on the Civil War quilt last night while the boys in the Tour raced, fell (or were knocked off their bikes by cars) - whoever said bike racing was dull!! One of the commentators said crashing on a bike at speed could be likened to dressing in only your underwear and then throwing yourself out of a moving car onto the roadway......I tend to think he wasn't far off the mark!

I am pleased it's a rest day today ...I am exhausted!

But the quilt is finished.....and I snuggled under it while I watched the last few minutes of the race.....

Over the weekend I also caught up on some Civil War block of the week blocks.....well...is caught up having them all printed off .......No?  ......well......cut out and ready to stitch....No?  ok........I cut out 7, made up 1 and have 7 more printed ready to cut out.....surely that is classed as caught up....No.......?? Really???? 

There is one step I need to delete from my process to possibly make these blocks happen more quickly...it's the "procrastination" step.....!!  It takes me far too long to choose fabrics - so yesterday I grabbed the CW fabric basket and the CW fabric scraps and went for it....LOL......I think not having colour pics of the blocks on hand was better.....I just chose fabrics I thought would work and got cutting!  So far so good....although only having made up one block using this method doesn't necessarily prove my theory!  Stay tuned. 

I did think about not continuing on with these blocks...but I figured if Barbara has taken the time and effort to offer this as a free block of the week (and also include lots of background info that is really interesting) then the least I can do is make them!  They  go together really easily - once the fabric choice is made!!  I am using left overs from the Civil War Legacy quilt and a few other bits I have collected over the past year or so when I became addicted to interested in the repro prints.

Catching up was the theme for this weekend......Saturday was stitching with the girls at Cheryl's house....and Kris came up to visit as well........haven't seen her in ages since she defected moved to Victoria............and yesterday was spent catching up on housework...washing.....cooking......and of course some stitching!  .......and that was the weekend.....gone again...in a heartbeat it seems! 

'til next time..........................Lorraine