I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post. Sorry about that! I’ve been so tired every evening, and so busy on the weekends, I hardly ever go near the computer when I’m not at work. But I’m back, for better or worse. Have you missed me? 😉

Anyway, not only have I been crazy busy at work, there really hasn’t been much to share with anyone lately. I’ve been adjusting to the new job of course, and the loss of my Fridays off – which has pained me greatly. But most of my off time has been spent in studio, or thinking about the studio or quilting, or looking at fabrics. I don’t have a lot of pictures to share right now, but let’s start with my two newest additions to the studio, and my first true step forward in trying to get it organized.

Neither one is full, obviously, though Chris would tell you I’m making a valiant effort to do just that, but the third drawer of the second set is just about stuffed full of fat quarters. For those of you who don’t know what a fat quarter is – or FQ for short- it’s a cut of fabric that is 18×22 inches. It is taken from a half yard of fabric cut down the middle – a quarter of a yard of fabric. A standard quarter yard is only 9 inches in width, but about 44 inches long. That drawer is plumb full, as my mother would say, of FQs. Each set of drawers has one drawer at the top that is very shallow – perfect for things like threads, rotary cutters, scissors, thimbles and other sewing/quilting paraphernalia that can be difficult to store. I’ve been considering purchasing another set of drawers, this one with all shallow drawers to store just such items.

PLANNED …
Another thing I’ve been doing in the evening as Chris pulls me through every season of Smallville since it’s inception nine years ago is to put together a “project book”. This book is actually a binder I’ve been filling with pages torn from old quilting magazines and placed in sheet protectors. These are quilts I want to make but … I’m tired of storing the magazines. So far, I’ve rid myself of about 50 magazines and I have added about 50 quilts to my project book. Sadly I think I have at least 100 more magazines to go through …

I purchased some fabric that has I Love Lucy printed on it – you know, from the tv show of the … was it 1950s or 1960s? I can’t remember. Anyway, it’s adorable, and the quilt made from it is destined for our game room. I also have ordered – but not yet received – a quilt kit using the Gone With the Wind fabric, which will also go into the game room.

STARTED …
I’ve started a new quilt for my wonderful husband, who has complained more than once that HE doesn’t have a quilt made by me … it took me a long time and a lot of irritation before I found a quilt he likes being made in fabrics and colors of which he approves. What he doesn’t realize is, neither of the kids have quilts made by me either – yet. And they’ve known me MUCH longer than he has! More on his quilt once the top at least is done.

IN PROGRESS …
I’m hoping to post some photos of the latest of my quilts this weekend, which is just about finished. I have about three inches of binding left and it’s done. It’s a baby quilt – a decidedly feminine baby quilt, made for no one in particular, just because I liked the fabric. I think I’ll hang it on my wall in the studio … I completed the top using the fabric I posted a while back. I’m going to take it to my mother’s house this weekend and see what we can do with it on her quilting machine.

FINISHED …
One bottle of Crown Royal, a carton of Dreyer’s ice cream and a cake. Not all at once, and not all by myself. But that’s about all I’ve finished at home recently. LOL