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In the past two days, over 225 people have viewed this page, mostly from the QuiltArt mailing list because I emailed them about the new quilt photos posted on 1/24. Interestingly enough (ok, perhaps only interesting to me) only 5 people commented on what they found here. One posted an email to QuiltArt and the other four wrote comments via the comment link at the post. OK, yes, that was only interesting to me.

End of a long strange week at work. I think each of us at work this week had a “weird customer” story to tell and some were off the charts. I’m looking forward to having two days off this weekend for sure. And I’m going to bed very shortly, since I haven’t slept well the last couple nights for various reasons.

Meanwhile, the quilt section below is sitting there on a board. I think I’ll pick it up into stacks and then do the bottom matching quarter. Then I’d like to do the same for the left hand half of the quilt. It’s hard when you can’t really layout a whole quilt’s pieces at once. At least by taking photos I get a sense of the color/values that are going on and can fix any problems. Usually I have a pretty good idea in my head what the whole is going to look like as a finished top. This is a very handy skill to have!

Oh, on the way home tonight, I drove around until I found Crossgates Commons and then found Panera Bread – a restaurant. Even though it’s a chain I found the food to be quite good and the menu varied. All this, plus a bakery and coffee. It was a little loud, but I attribute that to the Friday night crowd. I even got a table by the fireplace. What did I have? The “pick two” special where you pick two of three things: bowl of soup, half a sandwich, salad. I had broccolli cheddar soup and a lovely greek salad. Came with a big hunk of “baguette.” I went for a large coffee on the way out and it was pretty good too.