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Sweet Dreams – Five days to go!

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 Well this is the last Monday morning I will be getting ready for work. I have just five days to work until that counter ticks over to zero and then I’m retired!

 I’ve hardly sewn since I last posted, just busy with finalising work projects and too tired to do much else when I get home. But I did finish one more Sweet Dreams block – #8 and have a few more cut out ready to go.

I’m looking forward to next week when I can just rest, relax and start decompressing. I have ordered more comic book boards and I’ve also put in an order for some gorgeous fat quarter bundles that were on sale – a retirement present to myself! 

At work I’ll be packing up the last of my office furnishings and bringing it home each day and saying my goodbyes. My farewell will be via a Teams meeting and then its just handing in my keys on Friday.  I’m just going to focus on enjoying my last week and catching up with old work colleagues – the final countdown is here!

“What do you call a person who is happy on Mondays? Retired!”

Sweet Dreams catch up

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I’ve been catching up on my Sweet Dreams blocks and I’m really pleased with how they are looking. 

With block 4 I decided to change the direction of the blocks with the three stripes and turn them so that they all lead the eye to the centre block.

Block 5 is a nice light coloured block, a place to rest the eyes. It reminds me of butterflies in the garden.

And block 6 is one of my favourite so far with the little four patches and fussy cutting the bunnies.

In ‘preparing for retirement’ news I removed my workplace apps from my phone yesterday and deleted my work message off my private phone. For the first time in years it now just has a regular personal ‘leave a message’ on it.  I turned off the phone forwarding from work to my private phone,  that made it feel real!  
“Retirement: Say goodbye to tension & hello to your pension!”

Sweet Dreams!

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I haven’t had as much time to sew as I’d like as I’m still working from home for first term and its been much busier than I expected. I try and get a bit of sewing in early in the day, before we walk each morning.

At the moment I’m enjoying doing Pat Sloans  ‘Sweet Dreams’ sew-a-long. It has a weekly block & runs until May with three blocks made so far:

I chose this fabric from my stash first to base the colour scheme around, I just love the colour combination, it’s nice and bright and cheerful:

Then I pulled these two gorgeous fabrics from my stash to use for fussy cutting

and lastly these to add some light and dark and pick up on the orange & yellow tones in the other fabrics:

My first block I had to unpick and redo as I am not the greatest at flying geese. I really am out of practice & it showed but it looks better now:

Block two was a heart:

and the third block is probably one the prettiest I’ve ever made – I just love this block! I’m going to have to make more…  I fussy cut the tree and it was the perfect size:

 I’m enjoying ‘playing’ with my fabrics again and going through patterns and unfinished projects, folding and re-organising fabric. I bought some comic book boards to use so that will be a fun job. My sewing room declutter has stalled but there will be plenty of time for that again soon when I retire. I’m just not going to rush anything anymore, no more deadlines, just enjoying the day and doing things at a more relaxed pace from now on.

 I’ve had quite a few new visitors to my blog, “welcome’ and thanks for visiting, Feel free to join the conversation in the comments and leave a link if you have a blog so I can visit or follow for updates.  

Well its time for lunch here and then I might get back to Rhododendron Trail for the afternoon. 

“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.”

― Anne Lamott