Catching up

Summer is flying by whether I like it or not. Our Waupaca craft debut was a bust. Very few sales, but luckily, Karen and I always have fun so all was not lost. In fact, the best part of the day, after realizing that we had made (barely) enough money to pay for our booth and dinners, was finding the reflective "sweet spot" of Karen and Tim's Airstream where we both looked great as our tall and slender selves. We may have felt short and down in the dumps, but Airstreams don't lie.

Our slow sales did not deter our craftiness permanently of course. When aprons throw you off, you just hitch your sewing skills on another project and keep moving. That project is a certain yellow and white quilt that is coming along very nicely, thank you. The proof will appear soon. In the meantime, just sharpen your pencils and calculate the pace of piecing 48 triangles into each 12-inch block to construct a queen size quilt. Divide that number by about 10 years and you'll have the rate of progress on this baby. Now add a hour or two of inspiration with a pencil and piece of graph paper to design a border that will look impressive yet decrease the total number of 12-inch blocks comprised of 48 triangles each and you'll know exactly where I am in this process.