I'm trying to figure out just where the past year has gone! A friend recently asked if there comes a time as you age when time slows down again. I asked my mother how she felt about that question, and she felt that time continues to spiral away from us faster with each day we live. So far, I have to agree with her. Just yesterday, or so it seems, I was talking about four test blocks I had created.
I decided to depart from my usual quilting style and make a block that is a one of a kind creation. This is not a quilt based on a historical pattern, but on a pattern that a friend created for me, so that I could feature a piece of batik I had owned for years.
I posted about those test blocks on January 31, 2004! I went on to make the blocks, and they were finished, and waiting to be assembled into a quilt top, when spring hit. I think the last time I got to sit at my sewing table was back in MAY!
Last weekend, I laid the blocks out, and the sewed them into seven rows. As I looked at them, I decided that I really needed one more row to complete the design that recurred over the face of the quilt. So, last Sunday, I cut out the pieces for five more blocks.
Last night, I sewed those pieces into five blocks, and then laid them out in the last row. I changed a couple of them around until I was satisfied, and then I pined them together.
The cat kept me company as I watched a movie and pinned six of the rows together to be sewn today. I figure that the top will be assembled either tonight, or by tomorrow morning. YEA!!!!
I had hoped to have this project finished by April, so that I could send it off to be machine quilted. I am fully four months late...and it could be a little longer, if I decide to add borders to the quilt.
Where does the time go? Is it moving faster? Am I moving slower? Do I have more to do now than I did thirty years ago? I'm sure everyone ponders these questions. When you have the answers, come visit me. We'll have to have a long chat.
Comments (5)
I tend to wonder if the world is changing or if I'm just seeing things in a different light. Not sure about that, but I'm pretty sure time is moving faster. I'm 42 and I can barely remember what it was like to think that a year was a long time.
Posted by robin | September 5, 2004 5:59 PM
Posted on September 5, 2004 17:59
It seems to me that we were just worrying about whether all our computers were going to crash on New Year's Eve 2000, but that was close to five years ago! I remember thinking in January that I was ready for winter to end, but once it did, the days of my life flew by. I have to laugh when people talk about "time-saving" devices like the computer or food processor. They just allow you do to more work in the same amount of time.
Robin, in ten years, I bet you'll look back and wonder where the time went....and how it managed to go so fast!
Posted by Buffy | September 5, 2004 9:19 PM
Posted on September 5, 2004 21:19
Buffy, I think that "Time Goes By" had a discussion on this a day or two ago--no, wait! That was several weeks ago. Or was that here at Arrrgh?
Posted by Cop Car | September 6, 2004 3:14 AM
Posted on September 6, 2004 03:14
LOL... I too notice time is passing fast and it just keeps on amazing me! I do recall vividly you posting about the blocks... good to hear that you ae getting to the project! So much to do it seems that projects can be set aside and forgotton a while. I know you will get the project done now, you will want to use the quilt this fall when it gets cooler!
Posted by Desiree | September 6, 2004 4:21 PM
Posted on September 6, 2004 16:21
HI, Desiree!
I most likely won't have this quilt finished this year, but it won't be long now. One day I realized that I had given away all my work, and I decided that some of it was going to stay in the future, and this one will be a keeper. I want to have it as a contrast to my more sedate quilts! lol
Thanks for stopping by.
Posted by Buffy | September 6, 2004 7:59 PM
Posted on September 6, 2004 19:59