It's been cooler recently during the day and getting colder at night. It's only partway through August, but already the days are getting shorter and the sun sets before 8 p.m. The hummingbirds still visit the feeders regularly, but soon the regulars will be joined by the migrators and then they will all move on. Soon after that, the cranes will come again.
I am not sleeping, as always. I sometimes do a little sewing at night when I can't sleep, but mostly I watch youtube videos or shows or movies on Netflix or Prime. Once upon a time, I read through the night, but it's been years since I did that. Last night nothing online looked interesting, so as I sewed I re-watched old episodes of Sex and the City. It's hard to believe that the first episode aired in 1998--the show is almost 30 years old. I think it's aged well. Right now, I'm watching the episode where Charlotte falls in with the crowd of lesbians and Carrie goes back to Big.
I'm still sewing house blocks. The new houses are white, wintry. The sky is a bit of shibori-esque fabric that looks something like falling snow against a dark blue background. I like the austerity of these new houses compared to the exuberance of the old ones.
I'm unsure how to move forward into making the other house blocks into a quilt. I always have this fantasy that one day I will hand quilt an actually quilt and the houses seemed promising. I took an extra block (the first one I made, not very good) and layered it with some batting and tried some big stitch quilting with embroidery floss and 12 weight thread. Turns out it's a bit too labor intensive for me without much creative payoff. The tedium isn't worth it.
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