One of "Those" Mondays!

It's after lunch, so I'm really, really late with my typical Monday morning post.  But it has been one of those Mondays where the day just started wrong and went downhill from there. Grad Girl had asked me to take care of some paperwork for her that's due today.  I realized while I was having my coffee and reviewing my to do lists that I had completely spaced it off. So rather than housework, I needed to head out before 9 to get that taken care of.  

While I was contemplating that change in plans, My Guy who had just left for work, came back. He said his car wasn't drivable.  The front driver side tire wasn't just flat, it looked like it had blown out.  He came in to grab the keys to my car as my original plans weren't to go anywhere.  Since I had to have the car, I got dressed and took him to work. I'll have to pick him up later. 

Add in the stop for gas when the fuel light came on after dropping My Guy at work, my typical morning routine was pretty much trashed at that point.  

On the brighter side, I finished off all the Diatom blocks this weekend. That means I can link up with Quilting Jetgirl's Diatom QAL final link up.   

 

I'm so happy with how these turned out.  They are up on the design wall based on the layout Quilting Jetgirl uses in the pattern. I'm not sure they are going to stay in that order, I'm going to play with that a bit before I stitch all the blocks together.  I don't normally keep the colors used by the pattern author, but I just loved the blues Yvonne used in her version.  The patterns is well written and uses larger pieces, so the blocks go together pretty easily.  I learned a new trick for making perfect flying geese with this project.  This quilt is intended to become my couch quilt to replace the one that Grad Girl took to grad school.  

That's what is up on my design wall after a weekend of stitching.  Linking up with the normal linky parties, Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts.  Hopefully the rest of my week goes more smoothly than today did.