Plain and Simple

It's sad that this is all I have to show for about 8 hours over two weeks in the quilting room. But the whole quilt is now cut, which ain't half bad. Just 29 more of each block to go, and I'm golden.

The idea is that the blocks with white centers are on the front, and the blocks with patterned centers are on the back, and the quilting/embroidery goes in the centers all around, and la la la, I'm probably living in a fantasy and it will become two quilts instead. But I like the fantasy part of sewing, and am usually happy with results that are far from the sweet pictures I create in my mind.

Now that it's cut, it's remarkably easy to throw together, and I hope to have it pieced by end of March. I think. I'm now working full time for the rest of the month to finish up a study by deadline, and have two tournaments and some etcetera to slog through, plus the garden's siren song as the weather warms. But I'll give it a go.

But I counted just now, and what with weather delays in Atlanta yesterday and a dinner meeting that went too late on Monday night and getting up early to run in the lovely NC hills, I have had a mere 16 hours of sleep over the past 3 nights. It's like being a new mom again, only now I'm an old mom. So, despite the ridiculous hour and the cute little 2.5" squares calling to me from the cutting table, abed I go.