Whenever we have a hurricane approaching I always prepare a task to keep me occupied in the hours before the storm. This time after I finished all our home preparations I decided to piece my blocks for the next quilt out of these fabrics strips I had already cut.
It took about six hours to sew, recut, recombine and sew again these blocks, mainly because this is going to be a gift quilt, and I'm trying very hard to cut and sew straight, and I was already nervous about Ian.
The whole time I was working I kept taking pictures because I was sure I wouldn't finish. Yet I kept at it, hoping I would. That was fun and oddly soothing for me, to carefully work with time really against me. I also knew it would feel really great if I could finish before the storm arrived.
I got all 35 blocks done about thirty minutes before we lost the power, so my timing was spot on. It's not perfect (no quilt I make ever will be) but it made me feel happy in a situation that was not at all happy, which was the whole point.
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