Friday!

 

I got stuck on what to do with my happy pink Dresdens and marigold Dresdens. Being stuck threatened to derail me and I decided that I didn't want to be stuck. Instead,  I decided to move forward and make whatever mistakes I needed to make. So I took the happy pink flower Dresdens, added some skulls and borders and made a lap quilt (top). This photo is from part of the way through that process. I like it, but I don't know when it will get quilted. (When I finished it, I added it to the pile of quilt tops that need quilting, some of them more than a year old.)

 

So that left the marigold Dresden plates to be incorporated into a quilt top. I was going to work on that today, but instead I worked on unpacking the fabric that arrived. UPS brought a heavy box and inside were ninety-plus yards of fabric that had to be folded and put away. It took a few hours, but I somehow managed to find space for everything. (I think. I have a small stack of fabrics that I am working with that will need to be put away somewhere, but I'm thinking I can squeeze them in!) 

 

It's funny. I wouldn't call my fabric stash very big compared to some others I've seen online, but it feels like a lot of fabric to me right now--and there's more yet to come. I have a shipment that I ordered last week that will arrive this week, plus Dave ordered a bunch of fabric (as a birthday gift) for me from a local quilt shop. I don't know where all new stuff that is going to go, but I expect I'll find someplace for it.

 

After I got everything (almost everything) folded and put away, I started looking through a few of my quilt books for some inspiration. After I put together the marigold Dresden quilt, I want to make a quilt using lots of solid colors. (The majority of what arrived today are solid colors.) Gwen Marston is my go-to inspirational quilter for quilts done with solids, so I pulled out the books of hers that I have and looked through them. Her quilts remind me of Amish quilts--if Amish quilters were slightly unhinged. I like her stuff a lot.

 

What else? 

 

We had a quiet day at home. Dave went out for some labs, worked, and made pita (which we had for a very late dinner with some scrambled vegan "eggs" and vegan "bacon.") And I should have spent some time doing some housework as my mother is coming for lunch tomorrow and the whole house is in disarray. But it turns out that fondling fabric is more fun than cleaning, so I'll do some cleaning tomorrow morning instead.

 

What else?

 

There were major thunder and lightning storms last night. There wasn't much rain to go with it, but it looked and sounded very impressive. There were supposed to be more thunderstorms this evening, but they didn't really materialize. Too bad.

 

I unfortunately made the mistake of looking at the news today. Everything is disturbing and frustrating. From now on, I think I'll only open the news pages online to take a quick look at the obituaries--which reminds me of an old Russian story. A man stops by the news agent every day to look at the front page of the newspaper but he doesn't ever buy one. One day the news agent asks the man what he's doing and the man says he's looking for an obituary. The news agent says that the obituaries are not on the front page of the newspaper and the man replies, "The one I'm looking for will be."

 

Funnily enough, that's the same one I'll be looking for.