In the works

The last three or five weeks have been crazy - life is much easier on deployment with a regular-ish schedule and not a lot of distractions. After the maintenance phase, things come fast and furious. In the five weeks since we're returned from the holiday leave period,  we've completed navigation, seamanship, engineering and a set of combat systems qualifications. We're about halfway to completing all of our pre-deployment qualifications and we leave in about five months. It doesn't get any easier that the last few weeks, but this long weekend has been nice.

To begin with, I spent all of Saturday and Sunday cleaning the house, which was beginning to resemble The Black Hole of Calcutta. I did the kitchen, three loads of laundry, and a ton of other stuff. I made some strawberry syrup to add to soda, and pea shoot pesto, half of which I added to some quinoa and the rest of which I'll freeze.Saturday evening, two of us invaded the home of a third friend with food (hence the pesto dish) and a wheel of quilting cottons and worked out some color schemes for her due-in-June daughter. Or at least we tried.

Moose thought we were laying out a new form of blanket for him. This is the Moose I saved at the end of the year, now fat, sleek and utterly content in his new home. He is happy to be snuggled for a bit and then just hang out in the room. We did get him moved from the ottoman off and on and long enough for K to make a couple of choices color scheme-wise...one is sort of sunny...(no idea why the size is weird.)

And the other is light but not quite Easter Egg/baby pastel.
I made sure she knew this was just color guidance because I wanted a general idea of the colors she really likes - she'd have been happy with anything but the theme I saw while she was picking and choosing was really focused on the yellows, oranges with bits of pink and green. So, one NCIS marathon later...

We have a beginning. This is pulled from fabric I had in stash, but the print I really liked was just a fat eighth and I need a little more green and pink for balance, and nothing in the stash works with these shades. The colors here aren't very accurate - the tangerine of the large dots and a set of small flowers seems to blend with the dark pinks, which they don't do in person. I'll have to get a picture during the day. I need to replace some of the diagonals, too.

Comments

[Linda in TX]

Great quilt Shanti! And Moose looks quite content thanks to your initial good deed in taking him in.

[Melissa]

Moose looks happy. That's always nice to see.

Also nice beginning of a quilt. Can't wait to see it with the new colors.