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Last Month

The flu derailed my creative plans for August. Just keeping up with the housework and the day job took 95% of my time, but I did get some small projects done.

My first mini-quilt for the month was all about fall, which I'm determined to like a bit more this year.

My second mini-quilt was a stitched and beaded farewell to summer, which has been lovely this year and I'll truly miss.

I finally finished the scrappy tote I started back in May.

My third mini-quilt was one I made out of scrap fabric while I was pretty sick.

While sick I also spent a day doing little things: mending holes in an old mat that I made from scraps ten years ago (and I used scraps from the wyvern quilt to mend it! Ha.), turning some selvage into an extra-long bookmark for my bigger cookbooks, and making a little mug rug. You can always find something to do even when you feel like crap.

My fourth mini-quilt of August was beading and stitching this fragment of a UFO I made for an art quilting course (I was not really happy working in a monotone palette at the time, so I abandoned it.)

I also crocheted this throw during my week of recovering from the flu.

My last project was hand-washing, repairing and restuffing this thrifted patchwork pillow to use for my bad knee at night. Came out beautiful.

Since all the fevers and congestion are over I should do a bit better in September, so stop by the blog in the weeks ahead to see what I can accomplish now that I've recovered. :)

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