TWiP: Thinking about quilting

I’ve been thinking about quilting. Mainly I’ve been thinking about it in the way I always do – abstractly, with ideas for finished projects and where I’d put them, but no actual plans to pull out the sewing machine and make any of it happen.

I’ve got two quilt tops that I made for my kids in 2011 that are still waiting to be put together into something useful. I’ve got a baby blanket (for a niece who hasn’t been a baby in some time) that I abandoned when I didn’t like the way the quilting was coming out. I’ve got a pile of designer fat quarters in shades of aqua, mint, pink, and red that I’ve been saving for a quilt for my bed.

All of this, but no real drive to finish anything.

To be honest, I’m thinking a lot about that last pile of fabrics, and how nice it would be in my room. I love to use our beach quilt in the spring and summer (as you will see below), but it’s got a few problems. For one thing, it’s not quite big enough for a queen size bed, so it’s a challenge to keep ourselves covered the whole night. But perhaps more importantly, it is a beach quilt, and as such I have to take it off of the bed whenever we go down the shore. And then I have to wash the sand out of it before I can put it back on the bed when we return.

So, not exactly convenient.

I wonder if this will be the summer I finally snap and decide to make that minty bedroom quilt once and for all? If history is any indication, I will probably just sit around and daydream about it instead of taking action. I enjoy the daydreaming, though, so I suppose that’s something 🙂

So, what is This Week in Pictures?

It’s a roundup of the photos I shot with my DSLR for Project 365 (one image each day for all of 2016), plus some phone snapshots I posted on Instagram during the previous week.

Ready? Cast your mind back to this time last week…

Saturday

365: 2016 107/366 – I had a rare unobstructed view of the moon tonight. Usually when I think to take a picture, there are too many trees in the way. Tonight it was in the perfect spot, and the sky was a perfecct shade of blue.

Sunday

365: 2016 108/366 – I’m working on a new crochet tutorial for my blog, and I started shooting the step-by-step photos this afternoon, sitting by the open back door, where there was the best lighting. [Taken with my phone]

Monday

365: 2016 109/366 – It’s just not spring unless the kitchen is crawling with tiny ants. Sigh. I was hoping to deter them by killing every scout I saw over the last few weeks, but today they’ve been arriving in a heavy trickle, and I’ve purchased ant traps.

Tuesday

365: 2016 110/366 – It’s a beautiful day for blocking your crochet work on the floor in front of an open door.

Wednesday

365: 2016 111/366 – Aidan and his little cousin Kailey having a chat. [Taken at my in-laws’ house.]

Thursday

365: 2016 112/366 – Self Portrait Thursday. I finally, finally got the hair cut I’ve been putting off. I feel much better now 🙂

Friday

365: 2016 113/366 – I’ve been moving stuff around the family room today, trying to figure out the best place to put this mandala, if not permanently, then at least for the ebook photos. I do think it’s going to live on this table, though. It’s all of the stuff I put around it that will probably not stay there…

Thanks for taking a peek at this week’s photos! If you want to see this stuff as it happens, please feel free to follow me on Flickr and/or Instagram.

I may already have plans to blog about some of these things in greater detail over the coming week, but be sure to leave a comment if there’s something in particular you want to know about!

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