Saturday was a rainy day, so I did my chores (grocery shopping, laundry etc) and then settled down to a pile of hexagons and a a couple of metres of new spriggy cotton (no! Not another addition to the overflowing fabric stash ... the guilt!!)
I'm basically sewing lots of already-assembled hexagon rossettes together along with a cream plain fabric to add some patches of restful colour for the eye to settle on. Apart from that, I'm re-reading Willa Cather's 'My Antoina' which I must've read at least twenty years ago. It's such a beautiful, lyrical evocation of prairie life among the new settlers in the US, and the prose is an absolute joy. This Dover Thrift addition is a pleasing book too - the typeface, the cover and size of the book all add to the experience of reading it. Something you wouldn't get with those new fangled reading thingies - Kindlers, is that what they're called?
Sunday is going to be spent going to Mass and doing some cleaning & hoovering, then listing things on ebay as it's a free listing day and I'm trying to de-clutter the place. So, hopefully, it's be a productive day all in all.
That is a lovely book, I read it a few years back and it really stayed with me. I love hand sewing hexagons - so relaxing and comforting. Reading this made me want to start another grandmother's flower garden quilt! What a lovely day you must have had...
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Posted by: D | March 27, 2010 at 01:59 PM