I’m still messing around with fabric, but I can’t help but mess around near this lovely group of squares. I guess I’m really itching to start the next quilts, but which one, which one. In the photo above you can see one of my trusty notebooks. Hard to lose no matter where it lands.

I had yesterday off my day job and in true karmic fashion, was sick. Turns out several of us who were at the guild getaway got away with the same set of germs apparently. I thought I had just set off a respiratory firestorm what with all the fabric fluffing and folding but felt increasingly bad until yesterday when I finally had to admit it wasn’t allergy-based at all. Then I started hearing about the others.

BUT — despite all that, or in spite of all that — I ended the day with a board that was covered with stacked squares of 87 different fabrics. Medium to pale blues, pinks and yellows. A few of these were already in square format. Most started the day as strips and ended as squares.

Out of all the stuff I pulled from the stash for what may be two projects, only one fabric is still intact. I have a fat quarter of the world’s most wonderful bright yellow with bright pink marbleized fabric. And several urges to the contrary, each time it comes up on the cutting board, it just doesn’t get cut. Since it is theoretically ideal for at least one of the two projects ahead, I think I’ll audition it more closely this time. I know part of the hesitation is because it is a rather small piece of fabriic but the main problem is that it is just so luscious in the whole.

It’s good I don’t have too much in the way of “holy” fabric like this — fabric too good or special etc to cut up. In fact, I bet this is one of less than a handful.

While Designweenie has his own problems about getting a decent cup of tea, I’m still wondering what happened to the notion of “coffee, regular?” That is to say – a cup containing hot coffee, half and half and sugar. Not to be confused with

• decaf, regular
• coffee, black
• coffee, light, sweet
• coffee, black, two sugar
• double grande mocha half decaf with skim and cinnamon

I think I’ve said before that the main problem is that the servers of coffee, in regular coffee-serving establishments are too often non-coffee drinkers. And badly educated in their product at that.

All right now, repeat after me – there is coffee and then there is decaf. It is not “regular coffee” and “decaf coffee.” And finally, your “regular coffee” notion is not my correct connotation of “coffee, regular.” Now go get me a coffee, regular and be quick about it.

Why I work…

Think what you will, but there’s a clear reason or two I work. Yes, food is good, car is good, clothes are good blah blah blah.

Here and here are the real reasons why I work a day job.

It’s good to have priorities.

Besides “Red Sky Red Sky“, the quilt-in-progress shown below, I’m also working on a new quilt that is blue and yellow (yeah I know what a surprise) and today we took official photos of the quilt my Mother and I made. Amazing what a little flurry of activity can get ya. (totally jazzed to do more is what it really gets ya!) All I know is that all my clothes are covered with bits of thread.