Peckish

I hear you about the spiders giving you the creeps. A couple of years ago, we kept finding *huge* spiders - I'm talking the size of half dollars (including their legs) inside my house. And they were fast. We decided to spray the outside perimeter of our house and that helped immensely, you might consider doing that instead of (or maybe in addition to?) bombing.

This week we found a new one - an assassin bug - inside the house. That thing was scary looking!

RedGarnet222

https://www.bugtech.com/natural-home...s-for-spiders/

Here is a great remedy to keep them out of your home.

Panchita

You sound exhausted, which is perfectly reasonable given what you've been going through. Is there any need to rush on the DWR? (I can't remember if you said it was for a specific milestone/date/deadline)

I think you need to rest and recover a bit first. Putter about a bit. Let your mind and body come together again, lol. I suspect you'll find that putting the DWR together goes faster and easier if you give yourself time to rest now, rather than forcing it.

The other thought that occurs is if you are just not inspired by the thought of doing a DWR, or the chosen colour scheme, any more? Does another pattern/fabric appeal more? Or is it literally the thought of doing any quilt that is unalluring right now?

Jingle

If it were me I would get the house cleaned up/out and start on the quilt after I finished the cleaning/purging.

Hard for me to concentrate on more than I thing at a time.

Good luck.

Railroadersbrat

Panchita - there's no real timeframe on the quilt, other than the one I placed on myself. My sister works in the medical field at a post acute care center and she has just been getting beaten up and thrown around by Covid so much this year that I felt it was time for her to have something to really look forward to. She's been wanting a DWR since she was eight, when she saw our grandmother's quilt and now that I've had a few quilts under my belt, I felt it was a good time to finally tackle my fear of curves and give her something beautiful. I was hoping to have it done by next September for our fall festival we have every year (except this year, they canceled it, thank god) and put it in the quilt show, then hand it off to her. I even put the caveat that she doesn't get it unless she comes to the festival, which she enthusiastically said yes.

I did get some good rest finally, my fiance and I are working at night because we know the spiders are most active then and we have a better chance at spotting and killing them, and was able to get almost 700 pieces cut before going to bed yesterday morning. Then I slept most of the day away and now I'm working on cleaning up the dining room table so I can pull out my 24 x 36 cutting mat to finish cutting out the pieces. That and the fact that it's been standing on edge since I got it, I know it needs to get flat for a while or I'm going to risk warping it permanently.

I'm not afraid of the pattern, I practiced enough on scraps that I'm confident I can do the quilt with minimal fuss. The colors we chose are just so flipping gorgeous because they're hand-dyed that I joked with her and the woman that dyed the fabric for me that I felt guilty for cutting into the fabric, they're literal works of art on their own, my sister's quilt is going to be spectacular. So, I am very excited to get it going, it was just those little eight-legged demons that had to throw a wrench into it.

craftiladi - I'll do anything to protect my fur babies, especially from brown recluse. Depending on how many times a dog has been bit and how big the dog is, recluse has been known to kill dogs and I've seen what one bite will do to a dog, it's not fun in the least. My two are 60 and 70 pounds, a single bite would make them incredibly sick and the thought they would have to suffer just makes my heart ache and my stomach turn.