Wensleydale Blocks All Done and Cleaning Up

I did it!!!  I managed to get all the 60 blocks (plus one extra) completed by my self imposed deadline of 30  November.

Here are the last 21 blocks.

And a quick collage of the completed blocks. This is not the final layout.  

My next job is to remove all the foundation papers and then I will play with the layout on my “design curtain”.  

I’m really enjoying making this quilt.  I hope to have the top finished by the end of the year, if not earlier.

Of course, after such a sewing marathon, there is the mess to clean up.  I have already put all the main fabrics away and also tidied them up, which was needed.  All the scraps are colour sorted in bags, but need to be put somewhere.  A job for another day.

Today it was clean the sewing space.  Firstly, my machine. I had cleaned it before I started, but thought it would be a fluffy mess after this. However, I was pleasantly surprised.  As you can see, it still needed a clean, but not nearly as much as I had feared.

My sewing table was a different story.  It hadn’t been cleaned for some time and was a real mess.  As in get the vacuum cleaner to dust it.  It looks so much better now after a good deep clean and polish.

Next, for the cutting table.  The right hand side was piled with “Stuff”.  It has now been removed and the table and shelf above given a good clean.  It looks so very much better and makes me want to start doing something new.  I’ve hardly done any machine stitching this year and now have a renewed enthusiasm.  (The “Stuff” is all in a bag to be dealt with later.  Not sure what to do with some of it.)

Last week I gave the top of my cupboard a good dust.  Now, that was like an archaeologist dig through the dust.  Definitely another vacuum job.  I know it is cluttered, but I do like all my little bits and bobs.

The dresser top also got a good dust.

It feels so much better to have them clean.  There is much more to do to get my happy place back to being “happy”.  It will happen over the next few days.

By the way, after a few months I have my empty bobbins to add to the yearly total.  Not a lot, but there was quite a bit of thread on those cardboard spools.  I’ll share my dismal yearly total at the end of next month.

Now, to get back to playing.