A Busy Sunday. I’m Fried

After breakfast this morning I hurried and got my boys out for a quick 1.5 mile walk. It was freakishly warm for January. And we even got a peak of the sun.

I wore a light athletic jacket, lighter than a sweatshirt, and I felt the need to shed it half way through the walk.

After our walk I got ready and headed out to play pickleball. On the way I stopped at a friend’s house to sign as a witness on an insurance document. I noticed that her daffodils had buds on them. It seems so early!!!

I played pickleball for 4.5 hours! I had a blast and played some really fun and competitive games. I started out helping with a small class for youth to learn to play. And then played for a couple more hours with the club. I’m going to play again tomorrow night and again Tuesday morning. Have to get a lot of pickleball in before our radio fundraising drive starts later this week.

I was starving when I got home so fed Bender and Rico their dinner and got mine on the stove. After dinner I took my good boys for another walk. Two miles this time. It was still really balmy out even though it was dark.

After our walk I laid down on the sofa and iced my foot and I nearly fell asleep. I forced myself to get my butt up and headed down the hall to my sewing room.

I finished adding all the corner triangles to the remaining 38 blocks and got them pressed.

I didn’t start squaring them up because I knew if I did I’d do all of them. So I called it quits for the evening feeling pretty good about getting these blocks all sewn and pressed after a very active day.

I was looking a group of the blocks that are all made from the same fabric. This is Philip Jacob’s Curly Kale.

Look at the gorgeous detail in that fabric!

One of the things I love most about Philip’s designs is that you can cut them up and each resulting piece looks like a different fabric. Each of these blocks has this fabric as the center strip and they’re all so different.

And those big prints add so much movement and visual interest to a quilt.

A busy week coming up. The weather is looking pretty good so I hope I can get plenty of time for walks with my boys this week.