The quilt top is finally all put together! Well, mostly put together. I still have to put on the borders. I haven't decided yet how to quilt it, but I'm leaning toward stippling. Or maybe just outlining the stars and stippling the checkerboard sections. Hmmmm.
Today I also finally got myself out to do a track workout - interval training. (Yuck!) It's so much easier with a partner to
suffer alongside me help me get through it. I have to say, though, that my daughter helped me out with motivation. She forgot her chemistry notebook, and I had to take it down to the school for her. And the track is right next to the school. So I got dressed to run and dropped her book at the school on my way to the track. I tried a different formula for my intervals this time: timing instead of just sprinting the straightaways and walking/jogging the curves. I had found a workout online that suggested 30 seconds hard and 90 seconds recovery, so I set my watch timer for 30 seconds. It's a little fiddly, using the watch timer, but it was a good workout. I think in the future I can blend the 30/90 with the straightaway/curve and come up with a middle ground that's easier to keep track of. I do like the longer recovery, and the 30 second sprint is longer than just the 100 meter straightaway so it makes me work a little harder. I'm going to feel this tomorrow.
Well, that all feels like a fair amount of accomplishment this week. Perhaps I can get the quilt bordered and basted this weekend, and get it finished and sent off to my nephew before he graduates from high school! (I started it before he was born and he's already 2 years old. I've really got to explore simpler quilt patterns...)
Hope you're getting some lovely spring sunshine wherever you are!
Shelley in CT
