UFOs

This bed quilt is a UFO that has been going for about a year and I now have high hopes that it will soon become an FO! I'm busy on the last third of the quilting, having cleared a WHOLE table to lie the quilt on, so that I can actually manoevre it around. Amazing how much that helps!

This quilt is for my youngest daughter, and when this is completed, they will each have two quilts. This means there will be no more arguing about who is more loved, as evidenced by who has more quilts! (Beware the second- (third- etc) child-syndrome where the baby books, photographs, lovingly stitched clothes etc diminish with each child (well yeah, less free time!) leading the youngest to declare, one day, that it is obvious that you love them less, since you didn't make them nearly as many things!) I love you both, sweethearts!

(The school principal had collected anecdotes about "What is love?" for her school prizegiving speech and we all laughed at this one: "I know my sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and then has to go out and buy new ones!")

This quilt was fun to piece - a very basic Sunshine & Shadow. I enjoy the way the very warm colours show up so well next to the black. The backing is soft flannel, so it is designed to be a soft warm cuddlequilt. Murphy ensured that it lay abandoned throughout the winter and is now being finished in the spring, just in time for those hot summer nights when you can't bear to have a thread on you ...

I have one more UFO/bedquilt that has to be quilted, the top of which was pieced about 3 years ago. After that, I think it will be some time before I piece a bed-size utility quilt again - there seems to be a short creative phase and a very long slog-to-get-it-all-done phase with these, and with time so short, I definitely want to do things with a longer creative time and a shorter production time.

And now it is time to go to the salt mines (a.k.a. day job) to chip away at the rock to produce more salt to add to my already high blood pressure. Life's a b*tch, but at least sometimes, you get to quilt!