Borders and more

I had in mind for last week to put borders on four quilt tops which needed them to be finished.  Three of them are Christmas quilts which I made (mostly) in Denver last November, and the last is a Halloween themed one I made accidently.*

*Accidently made projects are those which are started because I want to try out a new technique or idea, and the result looks nice enough to make a completed project.  This one started as a test of some instructions I read on making pieced curves.  The results were nice and the remainder of the quilt just fell into place.  Except for the last sets of borders, which have eluded me until now.  It has been hanging in its incomplete form on the guest room door for months, and now needs to be FINISHED.

Two of the Christmas quilt tops now have borders and are ready for quilting (see next steps).  The third Christmas quilt turned out to need sashing as well as borders, and called for a more complicated sashing than I usually do.  So it was fiddly, and took measuring, and ripping and more measuring and ripping.  It takes about six seconds to sew up a seam, and half an hour to rip it out.  More if you have four of them, which I did. 

The Halloween quilt got inner borders with no problem, but I didn't think I had enough fabric for the outer borders.  However, I took it to my weekly Monday Library Quilters gathering, and the lovely ladies there all agreed that the dark fabric, which I have just barely enough of, would look fine.  So I'm off and running on that again.

This week, I plan to finish, really, the remaining two quilt tops in this set.

I also made a list of 25 things to do this summer.  Seven of them are cleaning/fixing around the house.  Three of them are miscellaneous stuff (organize picture, organize trip souvenirs, and write this blog).  The remainder are craft projects which I would like to accomplish in the near future.  I won't list them all here.

I don't know if making this list will help or hinder my efforts, but I do feel more organized, so perhaps this will be a way to keep on keeping on.  In one way, it feels so overwhelming, but in another, it feels like the list is a way to control my spiralling thoughts.  Also, it gives me something to focus on and I can celebrate my progress by checking off the list, and reporting here. 

I hope you are keeping on keeping on with whatever pleases you.  Thanks for reading.