Running, running, running.
Leave a CommentI did it! Really. I ran today. 2.75-mi. Of course it’s interval running, are you crazy? Since Sam and I are supposed to be doing the official Couch to 10K program together, I had to find another interval program to use on our off days – which have been every day since January 7. (Just saying)
I downloaded some other Couch to 10k program that only has 2-min walks between the run intervals. Let me tell ya, that’s not piece of cake, especially when you’ve not been running much. Today was just about exhausting. 38-minutes of run 2-min, walk 2-min with a 5-min warm up and cool down on the ends.
I had set myself a goal of running 500-mi this year. That’s about 42-miles per month. Since I only ran 13.55-mi in January and I’ve only run 5.25-mi this month, well, suffice it to say, I’m a bit behind. The awesome thing about running, though, is that you can always start over. Haven’t run for 6 months? Take it slow and get out there and go! I was looking through an event catalog for the Bentonville area today and saw that there are multiple 5ks coming up before summer hits, plus at least one 10k. Hopefully, we’ll get our motivation up and running in time to finish the program before that 10k.
On top of all that, if I run enough miles, I’ll be able to justify buying some new running skirts and the newest from my favorite company, RunningSkirts.com, are coming out any day now! The few I’ve already seen are awesome.
Go get your run on!
Total miles run this year to date: 18.8 (i.e., sucktacular)
And more progress
Here is 1/2-way finished:
Progress…slow…but progress
One-fourth of the way through the Made in Cherry QAL!
Romancing the Swoon
I am not yet finished with the Swoon-a-long since I’ll be starting my “Romancing the Swoon” quilt as soon as I finish that dratted baby quilt. Honestly, it’s cute and I’m glad to make it for my cousin, but the colors aren’t as thrilling as they were when I bought the kit and I want it to just be DONE already. So, here are the fabrics I’m using to romance the Swoon:
Aren't these beautiful fabrics??
It’s finished already!!
Okay, not the whole quilt, but the center, anyway. Of course, that’s the easiest part, so why wouldn’t it already have been finished?!? As a reminder, I had purchased three charm packs, 1 jellyroll, 1 layer cake and 1 yard each of three of the prints (2 yellow and 1 cream) as well as 3 yards of a Kona white (Okay, it’s more like cream, but I don’t know the name.) and a Kona blue-green to match, so I could turn all this into another Swoon quilt. But, the more I thought about it, the less I wanted to work that hard to make the numbers work if I used 5″ centers instead of the called for 6.5″ centers.
Then, I saw this fantastic QAL and the alternate size of 90″ x 90″ was perfect, absolutely perfect for the fabric I already had on hand!
So here we are. The center has been completed:
and the star points are all laid out and ready to be sewn together (I’ve stacked them on top of each other. They fabrics for each are not the same, but colors are all the same as the top one.):
Those points…oy vey. What was I thinking??? I took all the 5″ cream squares and cut them on the diagonal and even cut into the matching yardage to make a few extras and then realized I needed 5-3/8″ squares. I’m an idiot. So, I had to start all over on those, used all my matching yardage plus had to cut into my background fabric to have enough squares to do the points. As I said, I’m an idiot.
Anyway, tomorrow I’ll sew those puppies up and cut up the middle of the stars and then corners and this top will be (amazingly) finished.
I am pretty positive that I cannot convey how exciting it is to complete an entire 90″ x 90″ quilt top in only 2 days. Frankly, it nearly would have been finished today, but I had to piece the back of that baby quilt (which I did manage to complete today as well)…then there was the whole cut-the-wrong-size-triangles thing. (Did I mention I’m an idiot?!?) Anyway, this will inspire me to come work on a grant tomorrow for awhile. I’ve two more due before the end of the month. One is half written, the other I haven’t started.