Round and round it goes

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I'm quite pleased with this to be wholly honest.

So, about the quilting! A few days ago I completed a round of Alexandria, Jodi Godfrey's medallion pattern. Much to go before I sleep with this one, hehehe, but now I am FIRMLY into this project, which is good because of how much remains, ahem, and that I wasn't sure I'd finish it.

(Kind of like writing a story, then realizing it was going to be VERY LONG, so instead of writing it quietly, it gets released bits at a time even though the author is nowhere near the end. LOL.)

When I gave up on Alexandria, it looked like this.

Pretty, but so incomplete. Why did I abandon it? A pinched nerve made hand-stitching impossible in February of 2023, and once I could hand-sew again, for whatever reason, I dove into Cornflower quilt blocks.

Alexandria laid on a guest bed, or my work table if the bed was needed. I sort of ignored it, busy with writing and sewing other shinies.

Well, I kind of ignored it. I kept stitching the next round of hexagon blocks, then decided blue and green were too much of the same value, and to honor Ukraine, I swapped yellow for green. I kept the green, however, for the next round, which after Thanksgiving is what I'll start to stitch.

Working on this quilt 1) Requires concentration to make sure the blocks go right where they are supposed to. 2) Takes patience in that every two inches, I rearrange the ever-growing quilt top as another side is attached. 3) Is a godsend for keeping me focused not on the melee of American.... Politics isn't what I like to ponder, but it's somewhat impossible to ignore, especially since I, well....

Made another social media account. On a whim. To make up numbers. To give Elon the finger. To, to, to.... Share my output, both sewing and writing, and some photography, with other like-minded creative souls seeking.... What are those who voted for Kamala Harris trying to recover? There's way too much I could ramble about concerning that, and the previous post is enough if you're hungry for my blah blah blah. Suffice to say, I have a Bluesky Social account and if you desire, please look me up.

So, yeah. Social media isn't conducive to not thinking about what's happening in my nation right now, but whatever. Sewing Alexandria is. Immersing myself in The Hawk is. Getting ready to head east for Thanksgiving is, lol. We'll be in Nevada, visiting our son and his partner and her family, and I'm excited, as well as grateful the bad weather was last week. I'll pack a little EPP, some Ice Cream Soda blocks probably. I'd love to take some of those prepped for future Alexandria rounds, but I want any stitching I do over the next few days to be independent of that behemoth. Not sure why, unless I'm attaching too much national hoo haa to that quilt. Hmmm, hadn't considered that. I don't feel I have done that to The Hawk, maybe because it's succinctly set in the 1960s. We made it out of that decade, so I have to HOPE we make it out of this one.

Because as Dana Noth says, "Sometimes hope is all we have." True words, as Lucy Sorenson would agree.

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