progress and loss

Once I finished Simply Luscious

(which turned out so dreamy)

you'd have thought my One Block Wonder would come along quickly.

But you would be wrong.

I seriously underestimated how much time it would take 

to turn my nicely pressed rows

into a quilt top.

(or at least the center of one...)

All that matching of points and pinning.

ugh.

I was slower than a couple of my boys 

pooping 

when it's time to clean.

(Sorry; that's the slowest thing I could think of.

"Slower than molasses" 

just doesn't adequately describe my speed. 

or lack thereof...)

Progress was so agonizingly slow

that I was beginning to dread working on it

and even avoided it for a couple days.

Which is just ridiculous.

So I gave myself a stern talking to this morning,

and set to work.

Things were moving along at a decent clip

when Jeremiah came in from letting out the chickens

and told me he thought one of our red hens was dead.

I went out to the coop,

which, up until this point has never been breached by a predator 

other than a snake,

and found not one,

but two murdered hens.

One was my beautiful black and gold mama 

that was setting on 8 golden eggs.

I am just so sad and mad and sad!

I didn't have the heart to pick up my sewing

when I got back in the house,

so progress came to a screeching halt.

Tuesday afternoons during the summer,

the kids go to a play day at church,

which means I have several hours to myself.

Not wanting to waste those precious hours wallowing in sadness,

I gave myself yet another stern talking to 

and sat down with the pins again.

I wasn't moving as fast as I was earlier,

but still,

I managed to finishing pinning, 

sew,

and press the blocks

into four 4 row sections.

Perhaps tomorrow,

I'll get them all sewn together.

(And hopefully, there will be no news 

of another massacre in the coop.)

Linking up with cross-stitching Lee and the ladies