Time for More Quilts

The Book of Mormon quilt on the far left I've blogged about. But not the center basket quilt (blocks made for me by ______? I can't remember if it was an internet group or a small group of Flying Geese Guild members? The Niners? I know I made some of them, but not all. I did put them together and put flannel on the back and gave it to Suzanna.

The Geese pacifier quilt on the far right is one of my art attempts. Made when we lived in Havre de Grace, before Suzanna was born. Maxwell pacifiers on it. Spray painted fabric used with contact paper to create the flying "V"s going in crazy directions.
Flip-flop: John going to part-time work-document research at courthouse. Me staying home alone. Only the second time that has happened for four months?

Un-Finished Objects

Quilters talk about their UFO's often. I have a few...too many, probably. This is a small sampling--black and white blocks that my Lassies-Faire are helping me complete (two blocks on far left are first installment). The baskets are from the Wild Threads small group, part of the Flying Geese Quilt Guild I am in.

I've spent a week of training for a new job. Acronyms can be silly or fun or even worse than just saying what it is. The 2nd day I took some handwork to do on breaks (I am a fast reader). Usually I prefer machine piecing because of the efficient speed and the excitement of seeing a finished block quickly. But if you know you will have time to sit for awhile, hand-work is nice. HWIN

I have been concentrating on finishing some Obligation Blocks. Duty-Friendship Blocks. Finish And Then Do Own Work, Start Now While I Have Time, Must Arrange To Do Today, Need Something For My Hands To Do Or I Will Go Crazy With Boredom, Sit And Listen Sewing, Calming And Diverting-work:

OB, DFB, FATDOW, SNWIHT, MATDT, NSFMHTDOIWGCWB, SALS, CAD


Last night (while eating delicate Meyer-Lemon and Raspberry bars) with 2/3 of John's sisters and his parents we talked about texting, Twitter. Sara mentioned the irony of historically going from smoke signals and short, abbr. communication, to elaborate documents, full speech, telephone, faxing, email, and back to texting with abbr. short messages...John dislikes strongly the lack of content. No form, he says.

But he is a man of words. He loves pure communication.