Someone has a wild hair...
Apologies for the long absences. Mostly I knit slow and have nothing to show. Also, last week I was hit with strep (went to the ER and TOLD them it was strep but they didn't believe me until the culture came back positive TWO DAYS LATER no I'm not bitter why do you ask?) and had a miserable week. Friday I was feeling pretty good, and since it was Friday and the breezes were cool and the children were compliant, we went ouside, where they played and I flipped through the Keepsake Quilting catalog.
Oops.
It may have stirred a long-dormant feeling of bed-linen-dissatisfaction. Namely, I have no topper and shams that I love. I don't even have one that I like much. T was not much use in this department when he moved in, being a boy and therefore in possession of exactly one blanket and one set of sheets, the pattern of which he described ones as "slug-shaped". (They're paisleys.) So, here we are. We have a day off, we have settled on a basic pattern and color scheme that is neither too girly nor too boy, and we have tossed the stash. (You understand that I'm referring to the Royal We, here. T is at work and blissfully unaware of my new project.)
I had a scrap of something that would have been perfect, so I toddled off to JoAnn's in an effort to find something in a similar tone. As luck would have it, I found the exact fabric (plus a couple others I will use instead of those from the above photo). And (ahem) a few other little things.
I'm off to enjoy lunch with my aunts shortly, and when I return there will be ironing and cutting and arranging of fabrics, and possibly even sewing of same. I ALWAYS underestimate how long it takes to cut perfectly good fabric and reassemble it into a blanket. This is evidenced by the fact that I am already thinking about hand-quilting motifs in my head...
Anyway, whilst you chuckle at my startitis and my craft-fickleness, I will leave you with a couple photos of paperwhites I forced in a vase in my kitchen Courtesy of T's mom at Christmas-time.
