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Warning! Obligatory Cat Photo! Warning!
What can I say? Deirdre, Boopsie, Gus: all together, mellow and ever so cute.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.– Robert Frost
Although weather-wise, The Onset is probably more appropriate.
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A little bookkeeping stuff today. Blogger problems persist so archives are incomplete and posting is erratic. Despite it all, I managed to update the links at right to include the newest quilt, current postcards and a link to my folks’ website.
Meanwhile in the kitchen is brewing some really excellent beef mushroom barley soup. Tonight — some postcards perhaps if I can figure out how to do the stitching part. Or if there’s not any instantly apparent answer there, there’s always the piecing to begin.
Today was pretty bright, cold and blowing here in upstate NY. Pretty wintery feeling. Guess March will be coming in like a lion, eh?
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One thing about mindless, often boring television: it gives you lots of opportunities to do something else. In my case, it was laying out all my squares. Now some would pooh-pooh this as an even bigger waste of time, but I think it lets me choose what specific fabric square I want and see how it’s going to look as I go along. Anyway, without further ado:
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As promised, here are the rest of the players in the new quilt.
I have about two-thirds or more of it cut into squares now, so it’s looking a little tidier than it does here. Here’s a properly-oriented look at the strips.
Do I get extra judging points for having two fabric-related posts in a row?
