Productive day, even with a later start. I cleaned up after the herd of cats on and off. Had some good barley soup for dinner! Hemmed the two skirts I bought yesterday. Had to wash the pants I’d gotten because of the darn sticky label that was on them. Luckily it didn’t leave a mark.

Moved things around some in the sewing room so it’s not so crazy in there. Started changing over my email addresses on list accounts etc. Hope this works on Wednesday.

Here’s a photo of the new color strip in the new quilt, working title: gamut. Not a real title no doubt, just the working one.

I stayed up way too late, rather accidently – really! – but I did fix the green fabric problem in the middle of things before I went to bed. Pulled out a bunch of greens from the dark green cubby and there, behind those were some likely greyed-green candidates, one of which not only was a good value, but had some inkblot sort of designs which brought in the couple-columns-over pinks and couple-columns-back orangey colors. Photos later.

Cats seem to think they should eat. Go figure.

I went back upstairs to look at what appears to be a dark line down the middle of the quilt (as seen in the photo below). Was this an artifact of photoshopping the quilt halves together? A difference in how the two halves are lit (as apparent in the difference in color as seen in the pale yellow squares along the top edge)? The red triangle on the larger view indicates the actual center point of the quilt. At least you can see a closer view of some of the fabrics. Meanwhile, I think the problem isn’t really the dark greens but that first lighter color on the right side of them…

OK, so I shopped today. First Peter Harris, where I landed two skirts and a pair of black pants. All at cheap. Then to grocery store. Not so cheap, but a reasonable mix of things. Came home and made some very good for you vegetable beef with barley soup. Mostly veggies and barley. Needs a little something – perhaps some beef broth tomorrow. I’m growing fond of putting kale into soup. I sort of overdid it on this, but remedied it by ladling it out of the pot and whirring it in the processor. Voila – a slightly thicker stock and small bits of kale flecking the whole.

Then on to the sewing room, where I laid out the left hand portion of the new quilt. Here’s a view of the right side of tonight’s layout work. A little closer to real color I think.