Got a few more rows done on the sleeves of the Sand sweater. But frankly, it's hard to get excited about a sweater when it's 90+ degrees outside.

I'm thinking I might pull out my quilt and finish quilting it (yes, I know, how can I be un-excited about a sweater but excited about a quilt in this kind of weather??). I don't have far to go on it and then I can start a new project. I have a top all marked and just needing layering and basting and then I can put it in the frame.

I want to start a new quilt, too - as soon as I finish the Provence quilt top I'm doing (I just have a pieced border to put on). I am going to use the "State Flower" fabrics (I think I have at least a 1/2 yard of each one they've done so far) and am going to just do a simple Variable Star pattern (which is also called Sawtooth Star and sometimes Ohio Star - but is different from what I know as Ohio Star....)

A good line-drawing of it is here

I like simple, graphic patterns for quilts. Especially when I'm using some kind of a pictorial fabric where I want the pictures to show up.

I did do a little quilting over my vacation - the church my parents belong to has a small quilting group that meets on Wednesdays. When I'm in town, I'm the youngest. Otherwise, my mom's the youngest. They quilt people's quilt tops for what seem to me to be very reasonable prices (I had a twin-bed-sized top done and it was $75 even though there was some elaborate border work). They give the money to the CWF (Christian Women's Fellowship) for outreach projects. They actually bring in a surprisingly large amount in a year, and there's always a waiting list for quilts.

Anyway, I went and quilted for a few hours on the current quilt. I also made a mini-quilt in red, blue, and gold fabric.
The mini was simple - I cut 1 1/2 strips and sewed them together, and then cut out a rectangle the size of a sheet of paper from them. But I cut it so the strips were running on a diagonal from corner to corner. Then I cut a 2 1/2 wide border and sewed it on. Then I hand-quilted it. (amazingly, I got it done). It's pretty, but I find that bed-sized quilts excite me more right now because you can actually use them for something other than decoration.

I used to make tons of mini quilts. I still have many unquilted mini tops.