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Tuesday, October 06, 2020

The Bibliophile Files - 10/6/20

 It was another productive month of reading audiobooks! 

I finished my 75th book yesterday which makes me 7 books ahead of schedule for my annual ready goal. Woohoo! 

I really need to not worry at the beginning of every year that I am behind schedule as I am usually ahead of schedule by year end. Let's see if I remember that come March...


FINISHED
     Let me Lie - a good psych thriller
     Luckiest Girl Alive - This is the story of what I perceive to be an unlucky kid, partly from her own doing, who grows up into a privileged, engaged young woman. A woman I loved and hated for what she did to herself, what she blossomed into and how she hid behind her privilege.
     The Bone House 
     A 1,000 Moons
     8 Perfect Murders - as a new employee at a bookstore, the now-owner was supposed to write a blog to entice purchases. Someone is now using his old list of 8 perfect murders to get away with murder! If I get my act together, I would love to read those 8 referenced books/plays.
     Break in Case of Emergency - Toby's mother committed suicide 5 years ago and she plans for her own suicide before she hears her long-missing father is coming to visit. In the end he steps up and her friends support her in her time of need.
     Season of Fear - If you don't mind getting confused in a book, then this is the one for you! It's the sequel to a 2 book series but it's really a stand alone book with only 1 carry over character.
     The Party Upstairs - a book that supposedly takes place over a single day but in reality is mostly backstory to explain what is happening in that one day. It's a modern take on upstairs-downstairs mentality with a  happy ending for the downstairs people.
     Mrs Lincoln's Sisters - this is the first non-quilt book I've read by Chiaverini so maybe there is another book in her historical-fiction repertoire that has Mrs Lincoln's side of the story but I felt that info was the huge elephant in the room for this book.
     Red at the Bone - goodreads.com suggested this short book as a quick read towards my reading goal. Each section of the book is from the perspective of a different family member surrounding the coming-of-age ceremony of 16 year old Melody, a girl who is now older than her mother when she gave birth to Melody. I still haven't figured out where the title came from...

IN PROGRESS
     Firestorm - I found this book while looking for another with a similar title. It's a good thriller but borderline a little too fanciful for me with mindreading and starting fires from a distance.


And now it's your turn - what are you reading? Novels, magazines, quilt patterns and cereal boxes all count!


Monday, October 05, 2020

A Peachy Monday

I thought I should finally start to share the 3 hexie projects I started in the last few months. One of them is a mini-POTC made with 1/2" honeycombs, one is a HST group project for Hexie Club and then there is this one...


Shortly after I shared pictures of the Mrs Peach quilt with Chantal, she said she would do it with me(!), so we both jumped on it. The original had different colored pairs of stripes, fussycut florals for the octagons and All The Scraps for the "rectangles". It was a wild quilt to say the least. Instead, I'm using this fun Dia de Los Muertos cat fabric and each block will have 8 different but coordinating bright fabrics. The corners will be filled in with fussy cut white on black fabrics. 


The pink block is about one quarter finished thanks to Hexie Club last Friday. I have the green and red blocks kitted, yellow needs to have the last few fabrics fussy cut and I think I need to find 1 more blue fabric. Then I'll have to figure out what colors to use next - I'm thinking peach and lilac would be nice but after that I have no idea yet. The paper kit makes 12 blocks but I'm thinking I'll need at least 2 to 3 times that many for a decent sized quilt. That's a lot of color combos to come up with. Eek!

Phooey, I just remembered I was going to stop at a non-local store this past weekend to see if they had more of the DdLM fabric. I have a decent chunk now but I'm cutting it into some serious Swiss cheese for the blocks and don't expect to have much left to use for borders or the back. On the other hand, I have yards and yards of that mind altering B&W stripe so I'm hoping there is enough for a stripey binding.



Friday, October 02, 2020

Feline Friday - 10/2/20

 You worked hard this week Momma!


I hold your paw while we sleep on these warm flannel sheets!