12 Steps

There's a reason they are called "Step Programs...."  

What do you do when you're stuck?  You don't want to sew.  You don't want to clean.  You don't want to do anything! 
I've had my ups-and-downs the past few months with the "safer-at-home" guidelines and all, believing that light at the end of the tunnel wasn't an oncoming train but an actual END.

BUT NOW!  Well....not so much.  As of yesterday new guidelines....businesses closing again, no indoor gatherings, no church, no school in September for the g-sons ...  no nothing!!

I just want to sleep until it's all over!

This is how I sleep....crown, makeup and all.

The first step to getting unstuck is to get the shovel and start digging ... just start....somewhere ...  anywhere....

The Needlers have been meeting, (the three of us who live on property)....trying our best to obey the social distancing rules.  There really is something about contact with other humans.  We are social creatures, we need each other.  We met last night. 

Step One...out the door and down the hall to the studio.

Do you know this song?  Louisiana Saturday Night

Step Two....don't just sit there gossiping and complaining...DO something.

New lyrics

So I started with cutting the strips for the Oregon Ducks lap quilt.  Got the strips all cut according to directions.  

I have to say this is the most-strange pattern I have ever done.  

The instructions are just plain weird!

Strips all cut and labeled .... I had a lot of fabric left over ?????

Every time the Quilting Auntie complained about challenging quilt instructions but she persevered and cussed her way through them, she always ended up with a ribbon-winning quilt.  Let's hope I'm as lucky.

Step Three:  Sew the strips together according to a PICTURE!  No instructions, just a "map."  

That is what the author calls the instructions....a "map."

Football Duck by Counted Quilts*

I am directional-ly challenged.  I cannot follow a map.  I can get lost in an elevator.. I'm not joking!

But, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained, eh?  Tonight I'll start assembling.

I'll keep you posted.

*Football Duck by Counted Quilts