Tyler's Recovery; Log Cabin Progress

Tyler's recovering really well from the surgery. Thursday he was almost back to his old self - he even played with a new toy the Dread Reverend had brought him Wednesday night. It is such a relief to have everything turn out so well ... it could easily have been much worse. And that's not just my normal cynicism ... there was a lot of potential for 'bad' there.

Early in the week I was mostly working on the pirate shirt embroidery, and last night I did just a little work on the log cabin, but thought it was time for an update picture. It's getting large, it could be a lap blanket by now. But I'm hoping for a full-sized bed blanket, so I have a ways to go yet. It's kind of funny that what started out as a brief diversion from Celtic Icon has become a huge project of its own. Just those two alone could take up the rest of the year, I'm sure. And there are so many other things I want to make. Now I understand why people end up with so many projects going at once. I love to make socks, but have a pair half finished because one of the needles I need to start the second sock is tied up in Celtic Icon. I think I'll take a break soon from the log cabin, and finish that second sock (by either temporarily removing that needle from C.I., or just getting a new one that size), so at least I can have that done - and so I can start a *new* pair of socks. I like making socks, and they are portable projects. I don't have any of those right now, since the log cabin's gotten so big. I was using dishcloths as my portable project, but I seem to have kind of lost interest in those at the moment, too.

It's Friday - which means grocery store after work, and coming home and cooking Tyler's food for the week. After that I'll either do some work on the pirate shirt or the log cabin, or I'll go upstairs and do some work on the Mamluk tunic. I still need to make a second mock-up of that project in muslin, since I don't want to waste the 'good' material and I'm still not sure I have the pattern figured out the way I want it.

And the Tolkien quilt has been languishing for weeks now, I'd like to get some more done on that this weekend ... I'd like to finish the flames around the eye (only a few left) and do the second dragon (in the upper left corner of the center square). The next step after that is to design a quilting pattern for the opposite corners from the dragons ... something more geometric, I'm thinking. I have no idea what yet, I'll work that out when I get to it.

The weather's still too bad to do anything outside, so this is a perfect time to stay upstairs getting project work done. Hopefully there will be lots of progress this weekend. After all, only two months till the first event!