Much Ado about Nothing

Nothing is Perfect

Lucky! Because nothing much is exactly what I’ve got for you today. I did finish a UFO on Sunday, but it’s such an embarrassingly late and little finish that I am a bit loath to share it. Just a drop in the ocean of UFOs! But in anticipation of the unfortunate likelihood that I will be scraping the bottom of the barrel for projects finished for my PhD come December, I’ll record it now. That and it might make some of you feel better about a stalled project or two. It happens to the best of us. And me. 😀 And you are probably not as slack as me!

Apart from that, I’ve been busy wrangling children to appointments and classes, cats to the vet, boxes into the newly acquired trailer, dirt from house nooks and crannies we didn’t even know we had. Yup, hubby and I actually found a new nook in our house after 10 years of ownership…. at 4am this morning….. true story!

Not Idle, more Flat Out like a Lizard Drinking….

And busy people make mistakes. I am the poster child this week…..

Here’s admission number one for today…. failing to add a label and hanging sleeve to a quiltlet and put it in the mail, because it had no deadline. The label had to be printed, and the original finish coincided with a lack of functional printer….. etc etc etc. Bad timing leading to a loss of momentum. All completely inexcusable because the finish was totally within my grasp for the better part of the last two years if I’d even remotely tried.

This was a small art quilt for the 70273 Project, which you can read about here.

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But it’s done now. It wasn’t on my list of targeted PhD finishes, as it was 1) too little left to do; and 2) too embarrassingly late. But since January is looking otherwise sewing-free for me, I’ll have to take the win. Finishing it has eased a guilt, so on that level it is significant. And it actually brought me pleasure, remembering that blogging this particular quilt was when I first “met” my online friend, Ann of Laughing Gas Quilts.

I’ve had a screw loose…….

Admission number two…. not quilting related, more the inspiration for this week’s colours…. Last night, at not much before midnight I was trying to “get ahead” by cleaning the oven. Actually the wonderful oven cleans itself through pyrolysis, I just have to clean the racks. Preferably without knocking a rack screw down the kitchen sink drain though…..

After a few choice words, and a look at the U-bend under the sink, I went to bed in disgust. Hubby was already there, and I figured that if the screw was perchance caught in the U-bend, it wasn’t going anywhere for the rest of the night. The dishes fairies are locally extinct, I believe.

However, the screw didn’t stay put until morning…. hubby is a light sleeper and often gets up in the night, and when I rose for an anti-inflammatory at about 4am, he was pottering. The confession was made and he was up for an adventure right then!….. Actually it was a bit of fun, Sir Plumbing Novice trying to rescue Madam All Thumbs and retrieve a critical piece of infrastructure…. in the end, the solution was quite boring: one undone pipe join (him) and a deft scoop with a parfait spoon (me) saw that sucker out of there (thankfully). But not before we found a secret panel in a wall. Which hid nothing but plumbing, but promised long lost treasure in an Enid Blyton kind of way…. and the anticipation of looking in there at 4 in the morning was reward enough. hahaha. Then we took a cheap shot at our defenseless sleeping daughter in the great Gardner-Stephen peg war of 2020…. and went back to bed. 😀

Something New this way comes

Last week’s linky party was full of all things new. Here’s a taste…… don’t forget to check last week’s post for the rest of the participants.

New family: congrats Denise at For the Love of Geese on your new MIL status.

New interesting things I didn’t know: The Circle of Life with Andrée at Quilting and Learning Combo.

New resolutions at Donnaleeq. UFO busting never looked so good!

And new studio decor at Quilt Fabrication by Susan. Nice!

The Chameleon thinks he might hang out here until his staff have finished moving house back in Australia….. Did I mention that the local council are resurfacing our street this week? No vehicle access to our street from 7am to 5pm, from yesterday to Friday. You can imagine how that is helping my moving plans, not……..!

Which leads me to say that I think that the Chameleon may need to have a blogging holiday or at least change of schedule until February, so this week’s linky will stay open until Feb 3, join as many times as you wish. We will be on the road next Tuesday, and at school orientation the Tuesday after that. Writing time will be scarce. But if I have fun moving house stories to share, and the opportunity, you will be the first to know! Or maybe I’ll have Lunar New Year Quilt fabric purchases to show…. fingers crossed!

Tell us – what are you working on, or have recently finished in your sewing room? We want to know so we can visit and be inspired. Link up a blog post, an IG post or simply a photo from your computer.  See if you can get the Chameleon to turn quilted with happiness. We’d love to see your quilting colours!

• Link up your latest or recent quilt/sewing excitement. All quilt construction stages welcome – finished quilts, quilt blocks – even fabric pulls! Or inspiration sources!
• You have 50 characters in the link description…. tell us who you are and what your fantastic project is.
• URL links are not necessary to link up…. non-bloggers 100% welcome! If you don’t have a URL, you can link up with just a photo.
• Take a moment to visit some friends who came to the party – leave a little love and make their day. And a link back to Clever Chameleon is always appreciated.
• Do it now……. before you forget!

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Droplet photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash