Lots of thinking

Well I suppose the flaming bagel wasn't a sign of the Apocalypse after all, as it is Thursday and we are all still here. You are here, aren't you? Good. Thanks for all your kind comments. I'm thinking I may get a toaster oven. I'm still evaluating the options. Did I mention that I was toasting the bagel at home so I could use my own cream cheese and save a few pennies. Another vivid example of why I'm not a thrifty person.

So I'm in a state of flux as I can't decide what I want to start next. Not that I should be starting something new, I should liberate a project from its plastic tomb, I mean box or bag, and work on something that is already started. I have a bajillion ideas bouncing around in my brain. My chicken quilt is almost finished, and for me this is the time I lose focus, as my attention span is about a nanosecond in length. Visions of quilts I saw on BQF are dancing in my head (its just like Christmas). And, I did a quick look-see of my stash of precuts and there are at least 10 quilts that I could make. With the 3 day weekend beckoning me to sew sew sew I need to make some kind of plan, I think.... maybe.... we'll see....

Meanwhile, back in my basement lair, sewing area, I did a little stacking and whacking. First I cut fabric for my BFF Stephie. She's recovering from shoulder surgery and I think she can push fabric through the machine. Then I got out some of my Phillip Jacobs fabric and pinned it. Remember this one...

I pinned this 3 different times since first I thought I'll do the square and do 4 repeats, then I thought I'll do something with 8 repeats as it turned out I had more fabric than I thought, and then I thought I'll do the hexagon which is 6 repeats. Can you tell there was a lot of thinking but decision making was sorely lacking. So I stopped after the third go round and whacked it and these are some of the blocks I'm seeing.

I think (there's that word again) this would make a great one block wonder with the hexagons melding into one another. But this will require real thinking and decision making and time spent on the design wall to ponder possibilities. And I'm not up to that much work. Soooooo.... this came in the mail on Monday.

Willie's Quaker Band Sampler from Monasterium Designs. I've looked at this one for over a year and just about 2 weeks ago I ordered it and I LOVE it! I'm using 32 count cream linen and it will measure about 30" in length and be about 6" in width.

There are 4 pages to the design and I'm about 2/3 of the way done with the first page. It is stitching up quickly. Now I did change all the flosses. I was surprised that the ones called for are very pale. I redid the palette in deeper shades. You need 2 shades of several colors, mine are gold, olive, taupe, rose, blue-green and marigold. I'm stitching most of the alphabet in a deep gold - DMC 781 - and I'm doing the C and the N - my boys initials in DMC 731. I've gotten a lot of stitching done the last 2 days as the weather has been perfect for sitting on my screen porch. And I find that when I can't make decisions about other projects, cross stitch is my go to activity since most of the decisions have already been made for me. I like that cross stitching gives my mind time to wander (although that may not be a good thing).

So in the end I still don't know exactly what quilt project I'll work on next. Stay tuned... film at 11... or whenever.

If you are starting your holiday weekend tomorrow, be safe and have lots of fun!

Happy stitching-
carol fun