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I just put in the final stitches, then sat down for lunch and blogging.

A variety of regular threads and quilting threads was used to make the labels. Not overly thrilled with the gold sections of the variegated "November" thread, but I'll take that as a lesson and move on. (The 'month of...' is a Thoreau quote.)

This is what I'll be moving on to, right after hitting "Publish" (and despite the girl cat Zoe who just got nice and comfy in my lap). Some serious attention needs paid to my cutting table/corner . . .

 

. . . especially this pile on the right:

There are hunks to be put back into their 'FQ to nearly a yard' containers, backing scraps to be trimmed of thread and batting, and smaller scraps to be cut down to the Scrap Users' System. There's also vacuuming to be done, which really can't be put off any longer.

Another thing I was forced to address (which shouldn't have been put off for the past 7 years) was cleaning my embroidery machine. One of the threads jammed, forced the needle askew, which then snapped into 3 pieces. I didn't want to risk that the middle piece of the broken needle would jam the machinery, so I found my special really-small-space-to-work-in screwdriver and popped off the needle plate. I was appalled and extremely embarrassed by the amount of lint covering everything. I'm surprised that machine has worked as well for me as it has these past few years! No pictures of that impromptu cleaning session; having done the initial one now, I'll be cleaning that hard-working machine far more frequently.

One hour later

No lap? No problem!

She climbed over the teetering pile of fabrics and flimsies on the left end of the cutting area to get right in the middle of my work.