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Months of crickets notwithstanding, I have been doing some things!  Not a whole ton of things, but not nothing, either.  

So, "agonize" is too strong a word, but whatever word that's approximately two ticks less than agonize on a scale of ten, that's what I do when choosing fabric for boys/men. Is it too busy?  Too pink?  How masculine are bunnies?  

If it were up to me, everyone would just do whatever they liked and there wouldn't be gender-based strictures on people's use of color, but it is decidedly not up to me, so I try to respect target giftees' assumed internal regulations for colors they will and will not use.  

So it was with much amusement that I found out recently that my dad has been using a pouch that I made for my mom a billion years ago to hold all his cords.  

This pouch:

 

This purple-ass floral pouch is considered perfect, and he ordered another one approximately the size displayed in the photo, preferably with a pocket to hold a driver's license.  

Et voila:

A bold but potentially masculine green (idek, help) pattern with a driver's license pocket:

that I winged.  Wung.  Pictured with a real driver's license!  Hopefully they are a standard size state-to-state!  We'll find out soon, I suppose.  

 

Summer Quilt: I don't have enough backing fabric, Part How Many Quilts Have I Made?

I have been sitting on the backing fabric for this quilt for years.  YEARS.  So it's probably nearly impossible to source at this point and of course, of course, of course there's not enough.  Why did I think there was enough?  At some point in every quilt project I do, there's a point where I wave my hand dismissively, blow a raspberry, and say, "Oh, I'm all set for backing fabric." 

SELF.  YOU ARE NOT.  AT LEAST CHECK, PLEASE.  (While we are reminding ourselves of things, you should also know that the way that you get pictures onto this blog involves texting them to your e-mail address.) 

Years ago, younger child declared that they needed this quilt:  

Uhhhh... right.  One jelly roll, many stash fabrics, and even more full-width seams later, we have a top.  The liberty I took was mostly to decide that there would not be much angling of seams.   Horizontal seams means the quilt is done before kiddo moves out.  

Fun story: the day after I took the picture of the drawing that I managed to keep track of for probably 4-5 years, the wind blew it off my table and the dog soaked it in pee.  So this is the only extant version of the initial vision for the quilt.  

I have yet to piece the seersucker that will replace the batting in this quilt and that's not seeming like any kind of enjoyable picnic, so hopefully that will happen soon, although we just are wrapping up a free summer weekend and it didn't happen, sooooo.  

Oh!  Spinning!

A fitting title, because I nearly forgot to post about it and did forget to do it yesterday, the day that Tour de Fleece started.  But today I remembered, and spun some:

 

I have to hide the spinning wheel from the dog, so I may forget that this exists.  My plan for this yarn is to have one ply of this delightful multicolor and one ply of natural and then do something exciting with it, in terms of knittingness.  

 OH!  Baby quilt!

 

I also made this baby quilt, for a baby who has arrived and is truly delightful.  Fun fact: it is the first of my baby quilts to feature an appliqued badger.  Can you find the badger?  It is not hard! (Are badgers masculine?)

Happy crafting!