the best laid plans

I fully intended to sew with dedication and focus, finish one final quilt, then put everything neatly away and get on with the weekend. Then LG remended me that the guilds' show was this weekend. The potters', weavers', metalworkers', jewelers', fine woodworkers', metalworkers', and beaders' guilds get together and rent several rooms at the convention center for sales and demonstrations. LG's husband has several metal sculptures on offer. So I HAD to go, right? I looked until my eyes were full, and bougth some of Teresa Ruch's wonderful yarn.
Here it is. What, you can't find it in the mess? Oh, the place HAS gotten a bit disorganized during my sewing frenzy, hasn't it? There's Mount Washmore waiting to be folded onthe right and the yarn is there just to the lower left of center. Red, silver, purple and pink. See?
OK, more of a close-up. the silver is tencel. The rest is bamboo. I LOVE her bamboo yarn. Some people complain about the way it stretches and droops, but shouldn't you have kept that in mind when you designed it? Bast fibers have no elasticity. You can not substitute plant materal for wool and expect identical results. But for soft and drapey scarves and shawlettes, you can't beat it. Yummy!

So the quilt is half pieced. I have a quilt batt that is 90' X 108' and I am sewing to match. It feels like sewing a marathon! It does burn through the stash, though. I may even be able to put it all away properly this time, rather than stashing a box of fabric in the garage.