Bit of a Check In

 Happy Saturday!

First week back from vacation was a mad house!  I didn't get much done on the sewing front and my "minimal overtime commitment" thing just did not work out.  So I ended up working very long days to try to help work get caught up.  I'm not sure how effective it was.  They need to just hire 2 more people and quit paying the rest of us over time.  That is far above my paygrade though so I don't have to worry about it. 😁 

We were up at Mt. Rainier today for a few hours.  It was very nice and quite relaxing.  We came home before it got to warm, only 86 degrees when we got back down here.  I got a bit of color on my cheeks and ... since I forgot my hat in my hair part. I aloe-ed it really well when we got home though so hopefully it will be fine by tomorrow.

 That picture is from a really bouncy bridge at Longmire.  

Once we got home and I got everyone fed and the kitchen clean I started working on the quilting for my friend's red/black/gray and white quilt and I'm making slow but sure progress.

I have discovered that I really enjoy free motion and I'm not at all fond of quilting with rulers.  I will take that into account on future projects.  I'll still use rulers when I can't get around it but I'm not going to specifically decide to quilt with rulers unless the quilt just really won't look good any other way.

 I also showed the friend I was with at Rainier the quilt "back" that I decided can't be a back and she really loved it so I told her "Great! It will go on the quilter once the 2 projects I'm trying to finish now are done and then it is yours!"  

I'm pretty happy with that outcome! 😁

I guess that's about all of the procrastinating of this ruler quilting I can do at the moment so I'm back to it for about another hour before bed time.

I hope everyone else is having a great weekend.