brownthrasher

Yea, I finished!  The sweatshirt jacket has been bound and washed.  I like how it curls up at the raw edges.  I still have to trim off some of the larger clumps of thread, and there is one patch that needs to be tacked down on one side.  I don't think it needs a button.  The size works out well, although the sleeves didn't shrink as much as Debbi thought they would.  It's still too warm to wear it.  The curling quilters should make quite a fashion statement.

In progress:  I'm stitching down the binding on my dragon quilt;  I've attached the binding (but not the hanging sleeve, doh) on my holey quilt and then will stitch it down.  Still waiting on batting and backing fabric for my bed quilt.  So it's time to start on a new quilt.  This will be a wall hanging from the Asian fabrics mag, I can't remember the name but it features sashiko quilting.  I'm using some of the fabrics I got from Japan, and as usual I'm flipping around the color schemes (white large landscape print to red abstract print, especially).  Cutting has commenced.  This will be the first quilt I've done all at home in a while.  Not counting my placemat-sized piece in honor of David Cook.

Hooray, I finished the top for my Kanji quilt!  Now I just have to piece together a back...but it's a super queen, and needs ten yards of fabric.  Of the fabric I liked with anywhere near enough on the bolt, there was only five yards.  And the batting sizes don't come wide enough.  Sigh.  Well, Linda may make one more trip to the fabric warehouse, to hopefully find something that won't be a bear to piece.  Next step--talk to Liz about custom-quilting.  Perhaps waterfalls?  Or peonies?
I also put in the 'label' and the seams on my sweatshirt jacket.

Chatted with Michelle at the bookstore, which was good because my book wasn't in yet.  She's seeing a dearth of good sf, and only a few good fantasy books coming out.  Any good ideas for what the book club should read next month?

Started rereading 'Alleluia Files'.