A Monkey!

I am so excited to report that there has been another monkey sighting in Central Florida, this time much closer to home - right here in Lakeland.  Now Lakeland is a pretty big, spread-out city and unfortunately the monkey was sighted on the north side of I-4, so unless he's learned to be somewhat adept at crossing a 6-lane, 70 mph interstate, I'm sad to say we probably don't need to be concerned.  But geez, how cool is it to live in a state where you might open your door some morning and find a monkey lounging on the patio munching a grapefruit.  I need to get a net.

This evening's sunset was a lot prettier in person - lots of pink and gray and rain sprinkles.  --cds

A Finish

I'm trying to be serious about working on my unfinished stuff basket.  Therefore, I am happy to post my newest quilt finish.

I jumped on the chevron-stripe train because I love half-square triangles and the way you can make so many quilt block patterns from them and I had been feeling sort of modern-quilt-ish.  This quilt also grew from my love of this turquoise fabric - you know how a fabric design can just grab your eye and you must buy it?  (That happens to me a lot.)

While I love the color combination I pulled together to match my focus fabric and I love the design and the black accents and I'm happy with the machine-grid-quilting and the overall construction,

this quilt absolutely does not in any way fit decor-wise in any of my rooms.  Also, it is sofa-size, which is a bit bigger than twin-bed size.  When I start to make a quilt for no one in particular, I like to make a sofa-size because it satisfies my need to make the quilt, but it's not so big that I get overwhelmed and never finish. Also I am the head cheerleader for making quilts in general a decorator's primary focal point.

So I actually may end up trying to sell this or something.  I have an Etsy shop all set up - it just needs to have the cobwebs dusted away.  --cds