Free Day Fail

Tuesday I did not have to watch the kids, but OH MY it was hot, and humid.  I was determined that I was going to sew.  But before I could, I had to go to the grocery store.  I was in and out and home by 8 am.

I was going to read some blogs.....computer not working right.  UGH so I guess I should get to work.  

I set up my work area to quilt my Christmas table runner.  I worked on a little bit at a time.  I am about 1/2 of the way done.  I am using Isacord, but my machine does not love it so there are some starts and stops when I have a thread break.

I then decided I needed to do my bag lady block for quilt guild.  I figured out how I wanted it laid out and started sewing.  I am getting faster at these!  It only took me about 1 hour to do it, after I found the correct block size.  For some reason I didn't have any of the cutting directions for the 9 inch block, only the 12 so off I went to the sewing room to print the cutting directions for the 9 inch. 

I then decided it was time to pick up the old BOM and work on it.  I have step 8, 9, and 10 left to do.  I did all the cutting for step 8.  Then started to read the sewing directions. I got one section sewn together, and the next step was to take the block from step 1, and sew the sections which I had just sewn onto it.

I started looking, in the project box, on the table, on the floor.....not there.  In my sewing room behind the door where I hang blocks for quilts with slacks hangers....not there.  My ironing board, my cutting table, under the sewing machine, under the table where I sew in my sewing room, in every drawer, basket, and rack. NOT THERE!  I then saw a scrap in my ginormous scrap box and thought how did it end up there?

This is the aftermath of my search.  Still no block. I am now going on 2 hours of searching.  In the meantime I am working on scanning a file for DH, with the additional computer problems I  finally gave up in frustration.  Right before bed I went through the blocks in the project box one more time.  Aha!  Success!  But I need to do something about all of these scraps.  I also need to get something prepped to work on at the daughters.  14-16 hour days are not conducive for getting much accomplished.