Sunday, January 29, 2012

Progress, and an Unintentional Obscene Gesture

Well, I'm building this quilt onto a sheet of wonder under release paper on top of the pattern, which is also drawn on wonder under release paper.  I spent some hours at it, working slowly and deliberately, Saturday morning, but then I had to step away.  I knew the minute I put that first pink finger joint in that I was going to wind up photographing my quilt being obscene.  Sorry about that.

I set a goal to lose 5 pounds this month, and despite the couch potato episode yesterday, I made my goal!  I'm so happy.  I've never been successful losing weight before, but then I've never really tried.  Not really.
If I can continue to lose 5 pounds a month, I can lose 60 pounds in a year, which is more than my goal, but would be fantastic.  I know it's going to get harder.  

My other goal is to produce a quilt once a month for which I can also produce a pattern in case someone wishes to make that quilt.  I made this decision probably 5 days ago, and so I'm running a little behind for getting this current quilt finished before the end of the month, I think.  We'll see.  But I spent some time sketching for next month's quilt.  Plus I'm still working on quilting the big quilt.  
See?  I should just quit my job now because I'm too busy to go to work!

Wouldn't that be nice?

2 comments:

Melody Johnson said...

The colors look great on your start and nice work on losing that 5 pounds. My guess is it will start rolling off in a shorter time than you think.

Elizabeth Bennett said...

Wow! I really like where this quilt is going. Colors and design both have me wanting to see more! And congrats on the weight loss! Five pounds a month sounds like a reasonable goal and I think I'll use that as well!