Ugh, sorry for disappearing! I got distracted by doing a story for Whumptober. Whumptober being a series of story prompts for the month of October wherein the point is to hurt your characters. The list is here. But rather than doing 31 individual stories, I opted to stitch them all together into one big story, written in September, to post daily in October. I tried to write 500 words for each prompt (some got a good deal longer). Wonderful Husband has commented "For a Whumptober story, there's not much whump in this." Which, well, yeah. 31 days of pain ain't it. My current fandom is Tales of Arcadia (which consists of the Netflix series Trollhunters, 3Below, and Wizards). The story can be read here if anyone's interested.
Beyond that, I've finally got my quilting mojo back! I finished the second picnic quilt, quilted and bound a wallhanging (still working on hand-sewing the hanging sleeve on), and started work on Jazzy's Christmas quilt. No pictures of the first two yet, but here's the third:
He requested black, white, and red, and when I asked him if he wanted triangles or stripes, he chose triangles. As of writing, I've got the top four rows sewn together.
Quilters By The Bay, one of the guilds I belong to, had our annual Sewing Room Sale on October 1st. I got a few things, then, at the end of the day, rather than let the five bins of scraps get dropped at Goodwill, I hauled them home. After sorting them, they actually fit into four bins. And I'm working on a plan to do a charity quilt block of the month challenge, sort of like the block of the month I used to run for the Orange County Quilt Guild. Except that instead of drawing winners, the blocks will all go to the guild's charity quilt endeavors. And the material for the blocks will all come from the scrap bins. If the plan works, win! And in the meantime, I've been given free run to "liberate" things I might want from the bins, so some of the fabric in Jazzy's quilt, yes, did come from those scraps.
I also joined another guild, the Gig Harbor Quilters. Which brings me up to three guilds right now! I hadn't joined them before because they meet during the day, but, well, now that both boys are in school full-time....
I like the group, I really do. It's friendly and vibrant and active. And their quilt show was this last weekend, so Douglas and I took the boys. Squiddle dragged us to see a quilt and declared it was the exact one he wanted for Christmas. A red Single Irish Chain quilt with cream chains and cream stars in the alternate blocks. That's doable! And, amusingly, the name of the quilt included his name. So, clearly, karma at work. ^_^
