Designs in the Wild

One of my blog readers—hi, Elizabeth!—made the Cobbles and Pebbles quilt and shared a picture of it with me on Facebook yesterday.

Elizabeth made this with remnants of the “Jane Austen at Home” fabric line by Riley Blake Designs. (She said that the rest of the fabric went into an English Paper Piecing quilt.) I love how it turned out! The overall look is soft and subtle, and even though it’s made from a single fabric line, it looks scrappy. Seeing my designs out in the wild is so much fun. Thank you, Elizabeth!

[Funny story—I was teaching at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival some years ago and a student came into my class wearing an Aran sweater. I complimented her on how nice it looked and she said, “This is your Son of Aran sweater from the knitalong!” (I hosted an Aran sweater knitalong 20 years ago on the Aranknit Yahoo group.) I didn’t even recognize one of my own “children,” sadly.]

If only I could clone myself. I know I get a lot done, but I wish I could do everything I want to do. I have about 20 quilt designs in my head waiting to come out. I joked to the husband that I should have had a few more kids, because many of the productive quilt designers out there have family-run businesses. Or perhaps the problem is that I am interested in too many things.

I made and attached binding to the squares quilt yesterday and sewed one side down while watching the cliffhanger end of the San Francisco-Dallas playoff game. (I thought Tony Romo was going to blow a gasket, LOL.) The O’s wallhanging is back on the Q20. That one shouldn’t take long as it’s all straight-line rulerwork. I’d like to quilt the turquoise tumblers quilt after that—I am thinking that one might lend itself well to a combination of rulerwork and free motion quilting.

I looked for this Amanda Murphy book while I was in Missoula on Friday but couldn’t find a copy:

I have her Ultimate Guide to Rulerwork Quilting book that just came out—and it’s great—but I’d like to have the rulerwork idea book, too. The husband has Kindle Unlimited with Amazon. I downloaded a copy for free to his Kindle so I could look at it, but that’s not a convenient place to have it. I’m going to have to order a hard copy.

So much to learn and so much to do.

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The low tire pressure light came on as I was leaving church yesterday, so I called the husband on my way home to let him know I would be bringing The Diva over to the new shop to have it filled up. He told me just to pull the car into the shop so he could put it up on the lift and look at it. A bit later, he came in and said he had replaced the brake pad sensor because it had a broken wire. And one tire has a very slow leak, which we suspect is the same problem it had last winter. The tire place didn’t get the bead seated properly and I had to take it back and have them re-seat the tire on the rim. I might stop in there this week. That leaves only a bad EGR sensor—for now—and when I take it in to the BMW dealer in Spokane, I’ll have them replace the sensor if they have the part in stock. I’m going to drop the car off at 8 am and get a ride to the quilt store so I can take a class in the morning. The quilt store has open stitching in the afternoon, so I could spend the whole day there if I needed to.