so slow

so much for autumn.... this heat is not conducive to much more than long cool drinks of lime cordial with mint and flopping on the couch. But i am managing each evening to sew, crazy but true. I'm making a backing (or a fronting) for a pieced wool blanket that i put together a few (maybe 4) years ago out of a bolt of pale green wool fabric that i found in an op shop about....10 years ago. It was $5 for about 12 metres by 20cm, just right to be cut into squares and machine pieced. I guess it's been on the back burner long enough and though i'd intended to machine sew the backing my sewing machines are not playing nicely hence the hand sewing. I'm using all thrifted fabrics, sheets, aprons, scraps, in large and small oblong pieces sewn into strips. It's surprising how quickly it's coming together and i'm almost halfway there... wait, no...i'm done! I just lay it on the floor and it fits, with a bit of tweaking and fiddling. Mind you , it may take another 3 years to join the strips and then, say 2 years to put the back and the front together, then there's binding..1 year........... a whacking great total of 10 years to make it...Thats ridiculous, you say and i have to agree, but somehow i love the slow burners!