Stayin' Home Again

Wednesday is my usual trip into town for knitting group and I was so ready to have some social time, but after only about half a mile in a horizontal blizzard I turned around and came back home. Hrummpf.
No pictures. You've seen it, it's WHITE.

Back at the ranch there was stuff waiting to be quilted (the least interesting part, imho) and now I have to decide if these two sides will be one pillow or two. If the choice is two, I need some backing fabric, and for that I will have to wait.  My recent purchases of strip sets and charm packs has provided lots of new fabrics to use. While not exactly a bargain, they do make it easy to have lots of variety without the expense of purchasing a large amount of fabric, and then finding a place to store it. I just found some Kaffe Fassett charm packs on Ebay and bought a set of 150 squares. Yipes! Imagine having to cut them all from different fabrics.

This is the back of one pillow side. I quilted through just the top and the batting, since this is just going to be a pillow and will have an insert. I have been thinking about quilting-as-I-go since I discovered this great blog from Marianne.
Suddenly I am re-considering all sorts of things I have pooh poohed in the past. What can this mean?

We are almost getting the house back to normal, and trying out new arrangements. When one has a long skinny room with a choice of focal points such as the fireplace and now the big black tv and stereo unit, the seating has to move to take advantage. It is still bare feeling without the quilts, paintings and curtains still to be hung. Watching the house shows on TV has really educated us about interior design.

Here's the swatch of the batik I ordered for the new curtains. I found it on Equilter.com and it is the real color of our walls, which look lighter and paler in the pictures here. I needed 18 yards for both windows and they called me to ask if they could send it in two pieces, since there wasn't enough on one bolt for my whole order. This was so lovely since one doesn't want a horizontal seam in one of the panels, so we worked out the proportions on the phone to prevent this. Isn't that super customer service?