Today is Dave's birthday. He wanted and got a couple of new musical instruments (one of which has arrived, one of which hasn't) and a device for his computer. I also ordered him a couple of musical instruments he wasn't expecting (one of which has arrived, one of which hasn't) as well as a trio of t-shirts (one that says "i like bread," one with a giant frowning frog, one with his favorite expression "What could possibly go wrong?" in a flashy, 70s-esque rainbow font). For dinner, we had his favorite homemade mac and cheese and we bought a slice of tres leches cake for his birthday dessert.
It's a big birthday, a double number one, too. I felt kind of bad because I didn't plan anything big--but he didn't want anything big, so I guess that was lucky. We both slept in late and then I sewed while he played his new video game and made pita bread. In the afternoon, we ran a few errands. We had our dinner and watched an episode of 30 Rock and that was our day.
As far as sewing goes: I'm working on a new quilt. This one is called Loosey Goosey because it's based on a Flying Goose block, but done improvisatonally. The blocks take forever to sew. Starting from the yardage, I have to cut five-inch squares, stack them into groups of four, cut them freehand from corner to corner, sew them together, iron the seams open, restack and recut them, iron those seams open, trim them to four-inches square, cut those squares into Flying Geese, sew eight Flying Geese together into a row, iron and cut sashing, and sash three rows of Flying Geese together and iron that. That's to make one block. The quilt I want to make will take forty-two blocks and be around six feet by seven feet.
I'm averaging about four blocks a day, which is a glacial pace for me.
This is what the blocks look like sewn into long rows:
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