Long Time

October 9th:

It's been awhile since I last posted. I couldn't post at work this past week because I was orienting a new colleague and that ate up a bunch of my time on the first night I worked. On the second night, I was still playing the orienter, but my orientee was more independent and since we were short staffed, I ended up working as a tech for most of the night.

We're so short staffed that at my monthly check-in with my supervisor, he said, "Please don't leave me."

So that was my work week.

I started a new quilt, which is a remake of an old quilt. I have so many new quilts that I want to work on (the glow-in-the-dark one, the "blue wave" one), but The Brain decided to remake the old quilt that is a collection of the crumb blocks that I have been working on and saving up for the last three or so years. I made one quilt from them, and it's a good quilt, but The Brain was convinced that we could improve on it. So the blocks will be finished by this afternoon and I'm contemplating tying the blocks and quilting the borders (a distinction that will only matter to quilters). 

I have a memory of napping in the middle of the morning on my grandmother's bed under a tied quilt. I remember distinctly that my fingers fit under the ties, between the knot and the quilt. I must have been about three years old. (I also have distinct memories, older than the tied quilt ones, about a chenille bedspread with that amazing texture. I went looking for a chenille bedspread a few years ago and realized that they are hellishly expensive for bedspreads. Even the smallest twin size ranges from $85 to $200 dollars, which is too rich for my blood.)

October 21:

It's been a long time since I posted.