We're back from our little trip, and woah, was it a great one! We spent a few days hiking in the Berkshires (we did Benedict's Pond & a bit of the Appalachian Trail there, Monument Mountain, and Jug End) and a couple of days hiking & biking in Vermont. It was a fabulously blissful time. Now that we're back, I feel like something has shifted and I am realigned. Yeah, I know it sounds all foo-foo and whatever, but it's true. I feel more focused and reinvigorated. Time to strike while the iron is hot and work on some of those projects that have been piling up, both personal and professional.
Awaiting our return were a ton of ripe veggies in our garden and a ton of blooming dahlias, a few of which I cut and brought into the apartment. All that rain I whined about weeks ago has been a boon to all the plants. I am vaguely embarrassed now by all my morose kvetching about the gray and the damp. (Well, maybe not so embarrassed, actually - heh.) Everything is thriving! Hooray!
I brought two projects with me on my trip last week. One is a gift I am knitting for a friend. The other is this hexagon quilt that I started over two years ago and put away because I felt like I was never going to finish it. Well, surely, I'm not going to finish it if it's stuffed away in the back of a drawer or hiding in a bag somewhere. Granted, it is daunting when I think of the amount of hexagons I have yet to piece, not to mention all the flowers that I need to make from those. The hexagons are each about an inch and a half wide. I am a little intimidated by the whole process, but I really want to finish this. It is now my mission to see this madness through. I made some progress, it seems. I went from 19 flowers to 35 in a matter of three days, so there's that at least. Now to paper-piece a few hundred more hexagons....