Currently working on

I always have a lot of projects going, and of late, I've probably spent more time faffing online in the evenings than I should.

I do want to get back to working on quilts more. I got all the "right angled" blocks ready for that "tilted nine patch" quilt I'm doing - I decided to do them all first, then stitch up the "sashing" on the left-angled blocks and THEN cut them, so I didn't (a) mess up and cut ONE block going the wrong direction and be stuck with an asymmetrical quilt or (b) so I knew I had roughly equal numbers of right- and left- blocks in each color combination (red, orange, yellow, green, blue). I want to sit down with a pad of paper and figure out a color scheme - maybe go one "color ramp" (red through to blue, rainbow style) with the right-leaning ones, and then the opposite color ramp (blue, green, yellow, orange, red) with the left-leaning ones, since the blocks alternate. I don't know. I know I don't want to have to put a lot of thought and agony into the layout, because the layout is a big limiting step for me. (I still have two quilts' worth of blocks I need to lay out, but no room at home. On a good sunny day I could probably mow my backyard and do it back there, or I could go down to the church on a Friday or Saturday afternoon and use the floor in the Fellowship Hall, but overcoming that little bit of inertia is difficult).

I also keep running across patterns I want to do, or stacks of fabrics I've put together. Sometimes I wish I could magic my plans into reality without having to put in the hours of sewing on them....

And I have the quilt-in-the-frame that I want to finish so I can do another....

I also have Spitfire (the Pegasus) partially done; her head and body are complete and I started the front legs. I confess I keep wanting more ponies - I do want to make a modified Dr. Whooves to be Sunburst (Starlight Glimmer's friend). That's gonna take some pattern modding though (hair is different, unicorn horn needed, Sunburst has a little beard) so I think that's a summer project.


And I still admit I play around with the idea of G1 to G4 versions - a Surprise with corkscrew curls, maybe a G4-ized Heartthrob (a pretty all-pink Pegasus) or a G4-ized Waterfire. Again, I have way more ideas than I have time....

I have some socks on the needles, too - I started a super simple pair of Opal socks for knitting-while-reading-environmental-law-stuff. The colorway is "Rotkohl" - red cabbage. And yes, the colors pretty much look like it. (I like Opal even more know that I know a little German; I find myself looking up the actual names of the colorways and seeing if I know what they are).

And I have a pair of Hermione's Everyday Socks still on the needles; I need to finish that first sock and start the second.

And my invigilating knitting (nearly to where you put the sleeves on holders!) is the Grasse Matinee pullover. And I still do need to finish the sleeve on Hagrid, but it seems (again) hard for me to overcome the inertia on that.