There’s no better way to start the day than a sunny morning in the Garden Room. 🪴☀️ ☕️
12.6
12.5: Eye Candy Friday
It’s the first day of a long weekend! Most of it will be spent getting two Airbnbs ready for weekend football fans, but there will be time for other things, too. I have some errands to run, a Christmas inventory to do, and making the binding for my quilt!
The light in the Garden Room was perfect this morning! These are all pretty true color-wise (at least on my monitor).
I chose ORANGE thread for top & bottom. The quilting pattern is called SPLAT — it reminded me of the floral-ish shapes from the set of The Dating Game, which aired in the ’60s. So it’s floral-ish, which is a nod to the Kaffe Fasset fabrics, but also gave me a groovy vibe, which I also get from the backing fabric. It was in the ’60s when Fassett moved to London and his creative life really began to bloom. I dunno, it all came together in my head & gelled in about 2 seconds, standing there in the quilt shop, and seemed to work.
FEELING GROOVY!!
Squeeee!! I’m so in love with it and can’t wait to throw it on the bed!
12.4
I took a very quick trip through my photo archives & plucked a couple of gems.
A note by Malina, this time last year. I wish she’d elaborated! haha.
And the author… on what looks like a much better day in 2023!
12.3: Unraveled Wednesday
I’m joining Kat & the Unravelers for Unraveled Wednesday!
Short & sweet today!
KNITTING:
I’m closing in on Ginny’s Musselburgh Beret 
. It’s knit top-down & I’m just about to begin the bottom band. I haven’t made much more progress on the other project, but its time is coming.
QUILTING:
I picked up my quilted quilt yesterday!! It looks amazing & I’m so excited to work on the binding/finish. I feel like there are other things I should do first, but it would be nice to get that project wrapped up. Hm. Maybe I could literally wrap that up & call it a present for us! Anyway, I love that shop. I think I’m going to take a beginner quilting class there beginning in January. I’ve done a little bit of quilting, but there are huge holes in my general knowledge (aka, basics).
No photos of any of those projects because it’s dark all the time now. heh. Less than three weeks until we start (very slowly) trending the other way again!
READING:
I finished World Travel: An Irreverent Guide (Anthony Bourdain) a few days ago.
The newest tome plucked from the pile is The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl. I know that it’s a (sometimes perennial) favorite of many, and it’s been in the pile for a while. I think it suits my reading style perfectly right now.
12.2
No regrets. Except that it’s winter, so it’s already dirty!
I didn’t set out to buy a brand new car, but here we are. It’s my fourth — the first being a 1979 Toyota Corolla, the second a 1982 Pontiac Firebird, the third a 2000 Saturn, and now a 2025 Subaru Outback. In between, I’ve had a Buick Skylark, Chevy Monza, a different Subaru (Outback, too, I think), a Buick station wagon (don’t remember the make), a Horizon (for a minute), a Ford Escort, a Nissan Altima, a Ford Escape, and a Ford Explorer. I think that’s all of them. Rusty still drives the Escape, and Kate is buying the Explorer.
It has a few more bells & whistles than I’m used to, but the learning curve isn’t too steep, and I think we’ll get along just fine.