We’ve come to fall. Autumn in New England, actually. What everyone puts off during the summer – and there’s a lot of it – gets done in September and October. You’ll be reading this in early October because of the timing of my posts, but I’m writing it in mid-September, and I am about to enter the busiest fall I have had since my teaching days (fall of 2019 was my last fall in the classroom). If ever there were evidence of my ADHD, here it is – my commitments for this fall!
- Prepping five photographs for submission to the Small Stones Festival of the Arts
- Beginning my term as president of Cornerstone Quilters Guild in Charlton, MA
- Continuing my term as Vice President of Information and Technology for the Worcester Chorus, plus four concerts (Oct. 8, Oct. 27, Nov. 9-10, and Dec. 7) with the chorus or with the Bachtoberfest Chorus. Each concert has a different repertoire.
- Beginning my term as Newsletter Editor for a local group of a social organization I belong to
- Attending as many of my nephew’s football games (it’s his senior year) as I can
- Trying to get my kitchen cabinets painted before the weather gets cold
Oh, wait…you want me to make quilts, too? Don’t worry! I will. It’ll just be a little slower than I’d like it to be.
So here’s what I have on my plate in the world of quilts:
- Horseshoe Canyon quilt: still sitting, ready for stitch-in-the-ditch whenever I have a long enough time frame to devote to it.
- Abstract iceberg quilt: also ready to be quilted! I layered it with the batting and backing and basted it all together sometime last week.
- Oregon waterfall quilt: have fabric, ready to create paper templates and move on it, but needs a good long stretch of time to get in the mindset.
- College Fjord quilt: still looking for fabrics. The blue ombre I ordered online isn’t going to cut it for the sky. Search begins anew. (Repeat after me: “I will NOT start dyeing my own fabrics. I will NOT start dyeing my own fabrics.”)
- The other bargello quilt (which I will call “Hus Ved Havet” quilt – I’ll explain later): ironically, the ombre fabric I ordered online may be the perfect sky fabric for THIS quilt, but I am not willing to start sourcing the other fabrics for this until I have proof of concept with the College Fjord quilt. Stay tuned.
So the three quilts that are well underway are at a kind of standstill until I have a good chunk of time to devote to one or the other. The exception is the quilting for the abstract iceberg quilt, which again is stitch-in-the-ditch and could probably be done in an evening one of these days, if I can find one. The fourth quilt is at a standstill until I find fabric(s) for the sky. The fifth I won’t even consider until the fourth is well underway. So…here we sit.
In the meantime, I did a little binding work on a quilt that’s been waiting for the final hand stitching on the binding for probably close to a year. This quilt has absolutely nothing to do with this project, but it’ll be nice to free up some space in my box of UFOs. Maybe I’ll even get the quilting done on a Halloween door hanging I started years ago. Boo.