What's a Girl to Do?

I've been trying to follow the advice of Twyla Tharp in The Creative Habit -- to leave something undone for the next day, so when I return, I know exactly where to pick up working. Although I tried to finish up several quilts before leaving on my last trip, I didn't. However, that turns out to be a good thing!

Leaving right in the middle of my Meeting Captain Nemo quilt, I was anxious to return home and went right back to work in the studio the day after we returned. That MUST be a record compared to my usually slovenly self. But now, so many things to do and so little time!

There are songs to be put in the songbirds.

And details to embroidery on slippers.

But this new embroidery kick I'm on goes much slower than expected. This little hand towel took over TWO HOURS to embroidery, and halfway through I was panicking I would run out of this strange vintage floss I had chosen. Unfortunately it doesn't even show up very much.

Although as Gabrielle says, my fingers are starting to look like hamburger (never could get the hang of thimbles), at least I learned my lesson about color. I started to use more colors when I embroidered these fuzzy slippers, and the effect is much better. Reminds me a little of donuts and makes me hungry...

Tomorrow I'll officially be one year older. But tonight I'm feeling good that I've finished up these four new quilts, and I'm just working on the photos to put them on my web site.