So Many Projects

 I have been steadily quilting the Lizard Nebula and have nearly completed the center appliqued section. I don't expect the outside portion to take that long since I will simply be doing echo quilting. As usual my brain is boiling with ideas but as usual some other projects are intruding. My California friend, the one who just visited in May, has a daughter who just purchased her first house. This is the same young (well young to me) woman to whom I gave the blue and white Melon Slice quilt a couple of years ago. I liked the quilt well enough but this time I just want to pick the fabrics myself. I plan to make a Wheel of Fortune quilt with reds, yellows, blues, and greens--very, very traditional but also simple enough to be modern. Just like the first quilt, which truth be told was the third quilt I made this young woman, it needs to be sturdy and washable since she has a dog that gets on the furniture. He is quite old but she will surely replace him with another dog when the inevitable happens.

Then this morning I met the wife of the man to whom I gave the Trinity quilt. She wanted to meet me in person to give me a big bag of home made caramels and to ask me if she could commission me to make an Amish style quilt. I don't like to work on commission for any number of reasons but I do like Amish style quilts and hand quilting is my favorite part of the process so I told her we could talk after I finished the lizards and the wheels.

I had lunch with the young lady who is a rising junior at Harvard  and asked her if she wanted a quilt for graduation and if so what style, colors, flowers, etc. When she said that graduation was still two years away, I pointed out that hand made quilts take quite a bit of time and that it was part of a queue that I had mentally arranged. She told me that one of her roommates had made a quilt as part of a Folklore and Mythology class simultaneous to her trying to pass Organic Chemistry. It doesn't surprise me that her roommate's project was so artsy and hands on since my husband spent a great deal of time learning silk screening and making plaster shapes with balloons when he was at Harvard. I certainly understand why my young friend felt an imbalance though.

But the quilt I have in my head that is sort of my own project, based on Ted Storm's work, is the one I am most looking forward to working on. Lots of handwork, lots of quilting, lots of flowers and lots of colors. So 3.5 quilts in my immediate future or less than immediate future and all but one going to good homes. I still won't make a dent in my fabric stash.