Pink Explosion Halfway

I have been diligently working on my pink quilt this week after work. Tonight I hit the halfway point. Hip hurray. I really would like to finish it for the fair. I am glad to see that my stitches are getting smaller and more uniform. They say practice makes perfect. Quilting a queen by yourself is a good way to practice that adage!

Some Like It Hot

I promised my youngest that I would take him shoe shopping before his field trip Thursday. His tennis shoes were dead.

I took him to the Walmart that had a quilt store across the street. I couldn't seem to help myself. I went in to look at fabric for my sisters quilt. I really didn't intend on buying anything, but I couldn't seem to help myself. I have three of the colors all ready. I bought everything else. I bought the wonder under at Walmart while I was there.

Now I just have to see if my other son can replace and draw the lizard while I work on the background. I'm going to put the penguin in the desert under a saguaro cactus and red mesas in the background and the sun shining down. On the bottom I'm going to put "some like it hot". I think it is going to be really cute.

Penguin Idea

Last night I was on Pinterest and saw a cute mini quilt that was a penguin holding a candy cane. I thought that it would be a cute on to do for my sister one day since she collects them. So I pinned it.

This morning all of a sudden I had this brain storm. I remember seeing a picture at one time of a penguin sitting on an ice cube. I decided that I needed to do one sitting in the middle of the desert as a mini appliquéd quilt.

I googled and found this darling penguin which is prefect, except for the fish. I thought it would be better to have a lizard under his wing.

 

Now all I have to do is have one of my kids redraw it, find the fabric, and figure out how to appliqué!

 

Poetry

Last night as I was looking for my novel I realized that I couldn't find my poetry books either. I started writing poetry in junior high. I decided about my sophomore year that I would keep a hard copy of everything that I had written. I bought two green plaid blank journals and would write all the final versions in there.

I haven't seen them since we moved four years ago. That makes me infinitely sad too. I did find a typed copy of some of the early ones. It is a small portion of the first book. It was a class assignment for college. At least I have that too. I started typing them up in a more modern format.

Since they are from the beginning some of them are really bad. I don't want to get rid of them though. I'm doing two books. The first one is everything good or bad. The second one is the ones tat are halfway decent. We shall see how many I end up with.

I can come up with more projects to keep me busy. Sometimes it is a real trial to have to go to work!

Novels

Somehow at work we started talking about novels. Cheryl mentioned that she had written one. It is a fantasy about Mozart. I told her I wanted to read it. I told her I had written one in high school. She said she wanted to tread mine.

Came home tonight and looked for my novel. It was hand written in a couple of three ring binders. I looked for several hours and couldn't find it. I finally found a typed copy of the first draft though. The draft in the binders was the second draft and a lot more fleshed out. I can't believe it is missing. Not so much that it is amazing, but that it is part of my history. I spent most of my senior year writing it.

Began to read the first draft and couldn't believe how bad it was. Part of it is that I was 16 when I wrote it and had no life experience. It is hard to believe that my friends all loved it at the time. I had really loyal friends at the time. I couldn't read it without beginning to edit it at the same time.

My DH offered to type it for me. I may take him up on it.