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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!”

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

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 The colour for this months scrap challenge is teal. I’m currently  using teal in my Blue Ridge Beauty and in my Sweet Dreams quilt so I only had a small amount of scraps to use up.

I’m enjoying making these blocks. Its a simple, relaxing pattern to put together.

I’ve only got five weeks to go at work. Mentally I feel like I’ve already left. I’m regularly sleeping 8-9 hours a night now after years of living on 6 hours sleep plus weekend naps. It’s so nice not to wake up thinking about work, instead I wake up thinking about retirement, sewing, gardening, travelling etc.  

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So Scrappy RSC

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 I’ve been looking forward to having the time to do The Rainbow Scrap Challenge where each month you use scraps in a specific colour. It’s a fun challenge & it helps keep the scrap stash down.  The colour for January is red.

I decided to use Bonnie Hunters Carolina Chain pattern from Addicted to Scraps as its all from 2″ strips in light & dark colours. I made these give blocks:

I played around with a few different arrangements:

I do have more red scraps than this though & some of those are being used in the Table Scraps challenge which I’m working on getting finished for next week.

After that I worked on Rhododendron Trail. I still have a lot left to do but I find I can only trim blocks for a little while & then I need a break so my wrists don’t get sore so I just do a bit of block trimming each morning & try and get the trimmed blocks sewn by the end of the day.

While I was looking for something else in my sewing room I found some 4″ squares that would work for baby boys quilts and started joining them up as they won’t take long to put together.

It’s been a lovely weekend just sewing! 

This week I need to do some ‘work’ decluttering and get rid of some books & resources I won’t need anymore.  I think I will just give them away to some junior colleagues.  I’ve finished all the ‘work’ shredding which felt good and I’m plodding along with data entry tasks. Overall I’m on track to be all up to date before I leave and I’m still working from home which is good. 

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