First off, the questions:

Lydia:

1. Which is better, ancient Greece or ancient Rome?

2. What is your favorite, of all the things you've ever knitted?

3. How did you get interested in doing what you're doing? (Bonus question: do you call yourself a "classicist" or is there some other preferred term?)

4. When did you first begin knitting?

5. If I remember correctly, you've done some designing of clothes for plays? How did you first get interested in that?

Diann:

1. List the different places you've lived. What is your favorite?

2. Tell a little more about the "super slow" workouts you and Ken do. That is not a term I'm familiar with.

3. What is your favorite type of fiber to work with? (yeah, that's a recycled question, but I'm running out of ideas)

4. What is the main responsibility of your current job? Do you write instruction manuals, or help the users of software products? (Be as obfuscatory as necessary about the specific location).

5. (There HAS to be a cat question...) How many different cats have you had over your life, and which one was most memorable and why?

Second - I mostly worked on quilts this weekend. I did some more handquilting of the quilt in the frame, and then today I worked more on the current top:



It's too big for me to get a full shot of it within my house (it started pouring rain just as I finished the last seam of the day, so I couldn't take it out and hang it on my clothesline like I often do.)

It's about 2/3 finished - it's going to be slightly shorter and slightly narrower than a twin bed size when it's done.

I'm already thinking about the "next top" - I rearranged some stuff in my sewing room this weekend (partly to put in a new, totally-devoted-to-sewing-books bookcase - half is quilting books and half is mostly teddy bear pattern books. I didn't realize how many books on making teddy bears I actually had). My next top is either going to be a Bento Box pattern using some bright, 1970s-inspired (big daisies and paisleys in "groovy" colors like these) fabric, or it's going to be the Potter's Wheel pattern from the most recent McCall's quilting, using Civil War reproduction fabrics (the one in the magazine is in clay-color, cream, pink, with green as the sashing and borders. I want to do the pinwheels in brown and either green or gold, with shirtings as the light color, and use a couple different double-pinks I have stashed away as the sashing and borders).

Then again - I have some autumn-leaf fabric and coordinating prints that I wanted to do a "Straights of Georgia" quilt (from the first Fat Quarter Quilting book by M'Liss Rae Hawley). One of the good things about rearranging is you start putting stacks of fabrics together and find new combinations you want to use....