Quilter's Block

Over the past week the kids have all been gone, visiting their dad/grandparents, great grandparents, and sisters/aunties/cousin in Oregon.  I had a realization while I was driving somewhere yesterday, Oh man I am really alone right now!  Kind of a terrifying thought!  What have I been doing to keep myself occupied?

I thought I would try to get some things done.  I cleaned house, and actually put away a lot of my quilting supplies.  Either upstairs in my sewing room (OK truth I brought some stuff down too!), put quilting books, and patterns away, and brought this little drawer unit down from upstairs to store my thread and projects that I need to work on.

 I cut one border for the Black Eyed Susan quilt, and even got it sewn on.  I need to cut the fabric for the next border. 

I cut binding for a charity quilt that I finished quilting quite a while back.

I even got 2 smaller quilts sandwiched and ready to quilt.  Cleaned up my quilting machine table, chose a thread, got my tension just right and hit my wall.

I don't know how to quilt this quilt.  It was a kit, I think from Connecting threads.  So there it sits.  I have Quilter's Block! 

So while I am thinking about what to do....and because I don't want to try to clean off my cutting table of all the crap  stuff sitting on my cutting table I grabbed up some handwork.

My chick from the Farm Girl quilt now has an eye.

So does my chicken.  I thought about putting button eyes on them at one time, but changed my mind.  But simple cross stitches, just in case I change my mind again.   Snip the threads, and they will come out easy peasy. 

I also finished up a Christmas stocking cuff for one of my son-in-laws.  I probably need to contemplate what I will do for the next stocking cuff,  because I have a short list of about 7 more to make.   I thought I had done some of them,  I make the cuff send them off and my mom makes the stocking.  She insists that there are 7 or 8.  I swore I made at least 2 so I should only have 5 or 6.  Oh well. 

As I sit here, writing this post, I am still contemplating how to quilt that quilt!!!