I started making blocks for the C.U. Quilt last night. I made a mistake right off the bat..... I'm paper piecing the blocks. I tried to draft them and figure things out so that the seams would nest, but I think I already screwed that up. Quilting is such an adventure!
I was sewing along swimmingly piecing the first section of the first three blocks before I realized that I was using the fabric legend for blocks 2, 4, and 6 to piece blocks 1, 3, and 5.
The mistake isn't devastating as the blocks are the same except for how I had them grouped and numbered for pressing, but I was thrown for the rest of the night. I also didn't take into consideration how the sections would be pressed when sewed together into the whole block. I can make adjustments in the first section because the section below it is the applique section and not more plaid blocks. I need to figure things out for the rest of the quilt, though.
Like I said, quilting is ever the adventure for me.
I would have sewed into the night, but S decided she wanted to watch Secret Life of the American Teenager Season 1 through Netflix. I hate this show for a number of reasons, least of all the really bad acting! And you ask, who is in charge at my house? M wasn't home or he would have put his foot down and I would have been watching the same USA Network shows multiple times instead.
My kingdom for my own sewing room.
I wouldn't have been sewing at all had it not been for the storms that called the boys' baseball games. I don't know how all the missed games are going to be made up?
Overall, it was an interesting night. M was out until after 10 at a meeting for work which wasn't supposed to go that late which left me wondering if that's where he really was. Z pouted in his room all night about the porn incident and the fact that we now have proof that he took $15 from C last week. He had denied it, but C looked at his text messages in which he was going on and on about how he had an extra $15 to spend. Idiot! C is spitting mad and so am I since I ended up replacing the money, we knew he had taken it despite his denial based on previous incidents, and M didn't force the issue last weekend after saying he would take care of it. He let Z's denial be the final say..... Z can't even give the money back because he supposedly LOST it and his wallet on the way home Monday. RIIIIIGHT.....
The thing is that he could get an allowance if he would just do the little we ask, but even that is too much for him. The girls get their allowance regularly. They have to keep their room clean and do x1 thing a day extra, like vacuuming or attending to some of the other build up of dirt around the house. S has taken to cleaning door jams, mouldings, and walls. C and Z are supposed to swap weeks cleaning the bathroom and tidying up the kitchen, including mopping the floor. We aren't supposed to have to pester them to complete their chores and they have to have the bathroom and the kitchen cleaned by Sunday night. Z refuses to pick up his room or attend to his sheets when he wets them, do his weekly job until we threaten him, and would rather steal money from other people than work for it.
The girls want a lock box for their room and I don't blame them.
I'm beginning to think he can't help himself.
