One Step Forward...Two Back?

I think this is the longest stretch I've gone without posting, from May 9 to May 13 today.  I feel like the salmon spawning, struggling against the current of life.  However, it's all good.  This morning I felt a little anxious about my lack of accomplishments over the past few days, but I went for a 5 km walk with Rocco after reading email and hopping around on several of the blogs I follow.  Barely 1 km into our walk, after breathing in the chi of Lake Erie and the ancient cottonwoods, savouring the wonderfully warm and humid air today, I felt much better and centred once more!

Here is one of the on-the-go projects: quilting Summer Daze.  I am doing a basic stipple, but I might go back in and "ribbon" the stipple, a tip from Cynthia's Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework.

I've also been cutting and cutting, and sorting through my scraps...

Organized chaos this evening

I think there are the makings of three quilts in that picture.  Note the cool Rubbermaid drawer organizers I picked up at XS Cargo in Windsor for $1.99 on Saturday!  Perfect for storing 2.5" squares.  And yup, that is a mostly cleaned-out dish of catfood in the top right corner....Bella has taken to preferring to eat on my cutting/pressing table, as well as drinking water out of a juice glass. . . cats!

For the scrap quilt #5 in Scrap-a-Palooza, I noted that I seemed to have rather a scant supply of dark blues.  Cough.  Not.  I totally forgot about the under 1/2 yard roll-ups I keep in my plastic drawer organizers.  Yay!  So I've been happily slicing off 2.5 strips and cutting the strips into 2.5" squares.  I think I have about 120 squares of both the dark blues and the lights.  It's not enough yet.

And, ta-da!  Here is the Christmas scrap quilt #2 (#3 for me as I'm not doing them in posted order) on the design wall.  I DID have enough Christmas blues to do the centre blue, and then thought that green would flow nicely for the second spiral, meaning the outer one would be red.  As a result, I needed a LOT more red 4.5" squares.  Since I am planning on giving this to my grandson, and red is his favourite colour, it just all fell into place perfectly.  You'd think I planned it that way.

I hope to sew it up tomorrow, finish quilting Summer Daze and MAYBE sew up some blocks for the scrap quilt #5. 

And where is my Self Round Robin?  On the design wall...off the design wall...on the design wall... I am avoiding the appliqué round, I openly admit it!  The guild meeting is one week from today; did I mention yet that I work well under pressure?!