I’ve discovered that sashing is a great way to self-soothe during particularly intense sportsball games, so I’ve taken to coordinating my sashing sessions with sporting events on TV.

This sashing segment was no exception. I decided it would be the perfect project during an important end-of-season game against our rivals, which would determine our playoff standings.

Some nice, repetitive sashing stitching was just what was called for in this high-stress viewing situation.

Of course, the game went into overtime, and by the time it was finally over, I’d finished the sashing segment and had nothing prepared to work on at bowling the next day. Plus there was some concern that my stitches were a little snug, what with all the sportsball-induced tension.

This segment had another block where the edges were not on the straight of grain, but I just stitched as carefully as possible to reduce stretching (no mean feat when the game was so intense!), and I think it turned out okay.

I started writing this article yesterday, on the same day as a sportsball playoff game where everything was on the line for the home team.

And I got to go to the game in person, which was super exciting, but I figured my scissors, needles, and pins would not make it through the metal detector at the stadium, so I didn’t have an option to bring my current sashing segment to self-soothe. Instead, I just tried to burn off all those stress chemicals with loud cheering!

Today, I was stitching yet another sashing segment while I watched on TV to see how the other teams did in the sportsball playoffs, and which team we’d be playing next. Again, the game went into overtime, and I ran out of stitching to do. So, to self-soothe, I finished marking the stitching lines on the remaining 52 sashing logs.

Today’s game didn’t turn out quite the way I’d hoped (today’s result means we’re facing our rivals again in the playoffs next week), but I feel like all the sashing progress is a win!