Well the days are continuing to go by. I'm half way through the semester of my statistics class and I'm still passing (I even have an A although I'm not certain how I pulled that off). Work is work and I enjoy it as much as I'm going to enjoy work. The long arm machine is going to have to wait. I found out that I'm not allowed to accrue more debt without a court order at least until my bankruptcy is paid off which is still over a year away. Frustrating but it makes sense I suppose and life goes on. I don't want to wait, I want to get started right now but such is life. In the meantime I'm focusing on saving as much as I can as well.
I've been slowly working again lately on letting go of the many things I accumulated during my time trying to conceive. Some things have been easier to let go of than others yet I also still have more. A few weeks ago my therapist suggested I take photos of the things I'm giving away, then I can make a photo album or something and keep it all together and someplace I can look at and remember without actually keeping all the stuff. Damn. I wish I had thought of that several years ago when I gave away almost all of the clothes. Especially since I had A LOT of baby clothes. As a consumer (and shop-a-holic) I love baby clothes. As a NICU nurse not so much since taking it all off and putting back on again with all the tubes, cords etc is a pain in the ass but oh how I loved buying baby clothes.
I've got 3 different quilts I'm working on right now, all different block of the month patterns so each month I get 3 new blocks for the 3 quilts. I'm also working on doing the actual quilting on a top I finished last year. Doing it on my regular domestic machine is a lot more difficult and slower but I really feel like I want to finish my projects myself instead of sending them off to someone else to finish. Add to that I'd rather not have my quilt tops sitting in a closet for the next 2 years and I guess I will get started. I did take the class to become certified on using the long arm at a local shop that rents by the hour but I didn't love their machine and mostly what they taught was loading your quilt on the frame and then how to use the computer to do the quilting for you which I don't want to do. I also realized that unless I was renting fairly frequently (at least once a week) I wouldn't be able to get enough practice in to be good enough at free motion quilting to really do one of my own quilts so I don't know how likely I am to use the shops machine.
That is about all that has been going on in my life. I'm sticking to taking just one class at a time for school so I still have plenty of time for sewing or reading or whatever. That way I can maintain my sanity and keep my whining about how I don't want to spend the time or money to a minimum.
I've been slowly working again lately on letting go of the many things I accumulated during my time trying to conceive. Some things have been easier to let go of than others yet I also still have more. A few weeks ago my therapist suggested I take photos of the things I'm giving away, then I can make a photo album or something and keep it all together and someplace I can look at and remember without actually keeping all the stuff. Damn. I wish I had thought of that several years ago when I gave away almost all of the clothes. Especially since I had A LOT of baby clothes. As a consumer (and shop-a-holic) I love baby clothes. As a NICU nurse not so much since taking it all off and putting back on again with all the tubes, cords etc is a pain in the ass but oh how I loved buying baby clothes.
I've got 3 different quilts I'm working on right now, all different block of the month patterns so each month I get 3 new blocks for the 3 quilts. I'm also working on doing the actual quilting on a top I finished last year. Doing it on my regular domestic machine is a lot more difficult and slower but I really feel like I want to finish my projects myself instead of sending them off to someone else to finish. Add to that I'd rather not have my quilt tops sitting in a closet for the next 2 years and I guess I will get started. I did take the class to become certified on using the long arm at a local shop that rents by the hour but I didn't love their machine and mostly what they taught was loading your quilt on the frame and then how to use the computer to do the quilting for you which I don't want to do. I also realized that unless I was renting fairly frequently (at least once a week) I wouldn't be able to get enough practice in to be good enough at free motion quilting to really do one of my own quilts so I don't know how likely I am to use the shops machine.
That is about all that has been going on in my life. I'm sticking to taking just one class at a time for school so I still have plenty of time for sewing or reading or whatever. That way I can maintain my sanity and keep my whining about how I don't want to spend the time or money to a minimum.
