Still plugging away on Zelda. The front is done up to the divide-point for the shoulders, and I've got the right side shoulder nearly done. I'm getting excited about this project again.

Also, yesterday afternoon, I spent an hour working on the Paris Flea Market quilt. I put a CD in the CD player (Dvorak - the Dumky Trio and one of his cello sonatas) and I told myself "I'll just let myself sew on this as long as the CD runs (which was about 70 minutes, I think) and see where I get. Well, I'm midway through the sixth row (of what will be 24). This quilt brings me back to my "beginner's mind" in quilting - it's just a one-patch quilt, which means I can just sit there and motor on it, I don't have to stop to press (at least, not until I get all the rows sewn), nor do I have to stop to do rotary-cutting thingies with the bits I've just sewn.

And that's fun. It's fun to just go, to just feed block after block under the needle, and watch the thing grow. And I'm getting excited about the quilt - it's going to look REALLY good when it's done, I think.

Incidentally, I photographed the layout I did last week but never posted a photo. Here's the best one I was able to get:


It is a lot of squares - as I said, 20 by 24 - and it's hard to photograph a layout that big. I think it looks sort of "Shabby Chic" as it's going together, because of all the pale pale pastels. Most of the fabrics are from the Paris Flea Market line, with some from the "Seaside Rose" collection, and a few oddball things pulled out of my stash here and there to fill in. The back is going to be a big, cabbage-rose print from the Paris Flea Market line.