Other nice finishes

Such a joy and relief to have a book released; Life Stories has already made its way to Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Everand (formerly Scribd), and Kobo, pretty cool! Meanwhile, I've formatted the first novel for The Hawk, will probably release that tale in early December. More about that as autumn ticks past, although a few days of summer officially remain. It's a foggy morning here, definitely feeling like a new season has arrived.

Autumnal hues in this Mandolin block probably add to my sense of seasonal alteration.

Maybe that sensation is due to having published a novel, time for summer to give way to more indoorsy pastimes. I've been busy with hand-sewing, completing a Mandolin block (pictured above) this morning, as well as next week's Red Sky at Night block, lol. Bridal Bouquet (pictured below) was a bit fuzty to baste, making sure the directional papers were all going the right way as well as basted so the perimeter pieces fold outwards. The sewing of said pieces was quite enjoyable.

Vibrant primary shades hearken to summer, which according to the weather forecast might return in the next few days.

I used Kaffe Fassett for the posy's flowers, all those prints from a jelly roll. I LOVE Kaffe Fassett's fabrics, both the designs and the minimal weight of the cotton, making for easy English paper piecing. I used Art Gallery for the dark blue in the Mandolin block, and it's not my fave fabric for EPP, sometimes stiff in a strange way for it too is a lightweight cotton. Just how some fabrics play nicely with hand-stitching and some not so much.

This morning I cut fabrics for the next RSAN block, will probably get around to basting them later. I've decided to stitch all the EPP blocks for this quilt, then break into the machine sewing. Easier to clear off my sewing table for other projects, like quilt bindings, if I don't have heaps of half-square triangles piled all over the place. Kind of like novels stored in hard and flash drives in various states of existence. Some revised, some kind of edited, some in hunks within other novels. And I won't even get into what waits in my brain....

(Like a short story idea I considered yesterday afternoon about a young couple getting together over fish and chips, but trying to maintain a discreet distance so the chap involved doesn't lose his mind wanting to take the young woman to bed. Oh my goodness, like I have time to write a short story these days!)

Anyways.... That's life post-publishing. One project completed, eighteen more clamoring for my attention. Time to wrap up this post, then see what shiny next catches my eye!