The good, the weird, and the ugly:

The good: worked a bunch on the Soft Cables Moebius scarf last night.

The weird: I USED to be notified (in my e-mail) when a comment appeared on here. It's not been happening for a couple of days. So now I'm getting worried - how will I know if I get spam-attacked on older posts (I know, that's unlikely, given Blogger's comment-registration, which I frankly like). Maybe I turned something off somewhere without knowing. Or maybe it's just Blogger's random unstableness and it'll come back sometime.

The ugly: I don't know if it's weather/allergy related asthma, or if I pulled a muscle, but every time I try to take a deep breath, I get an ugly little catch in my chest, right around where the band of my brassiere goes. I didn't get up early to exercise today and am hoping it'll get better over the course of the day. I HATE not being able to breathe properly.

I'm also contemplating the next quilt project. I have several in mind, and don't know which to do. I've got fabric for another fat quarter quilt, this time in lime green and pale pink. I've also got the State Flower Fabrics and plain white background and a plan sometime to do a variable star quilt using them. And I've got some deep blue and a series of yellow/gold fabrics to do a quilt using a block pattern called "candlelight." And I've got a bunch of very light, very summery looking pastels (almost made to look like fabric that was very old and had got faded), which I've decided will work best as just a series of simple squares - maybe 4" squares, I don't know.

The benefits to the bigger, block-based quilts, is that I could cut them bit by bit and work on them piecemeal. The bad part is I have to make templates for them so I don't waste lots of fabric by rotary-cutting pieces for one block (it would involve cutting more than a block's worth from each fabric to do it that way. And the Candlelight block pieces can't really be rotary cut). The benefit to the pastel quilt is that it would be simple to cut the blocks, but then I'd have to do an intensive lay-out of them to find an order I liked. And I'm not sure yet whether I want to do a full-sized quilt of it (or, if I even have enough fabric). The benefit to the fat-quarter quilt is that it could be cut all at once, and get the boring part out of the way faster. But that one would involve lots of bias edges to sew, and I'm done with bias edges for a while after the Chocolate Brown and Pink quilt.

(For those who don't quilt: The worst part, at least for me, of making a quilt is the cutting. It's worst if you have to use templates because then you have to trace accurately and then cut with scissors - which, can give you blisters if you do it for too extended a period of time. Rotary cutting is faster - but it wastes fabric if you're not going to use the WHOLE piece in the quilt. It leaves you with bits that are 2 1/2" or whatever wide, and you might not be able to easily use again. And bias edges [the stretchy edges of fabric cut on the bias] are a PITA to sew together accurately.)

So I don't know. I may go a while before deciding. I do have to wash the pastel pieces to preshrink them if I decide to use them right now.