This is coming along nicely – but with still 2/3 (ie 100 squares) hand quilting to go, though, this is where I find it hard to hold concentration and plough on to finish this part of the work – and it’s where recorded books really come into their own. Although I read “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel a couple of years a go, that is long enough ago for so much of the book to be new and freshly enjoyed. An english visitor on the weekend, familiar with things like quilting bees and guilds, asked did I have a circle of quilters here – the short answer is no , and mostly I don’t miss that, but with the qualification that at such times, just quilting your way through a couple of hours of quilt-based yackety yack, is another good way to get through the work with apparent ease and no loss of focus. It struck me this morning that if there were a way to record the several online chat/email groups I belong to, that would be a perfect background, too. In each of them, there are several writers whose opinions I always find interesting and sometimes provocative, but always worthwhile. So, now I am off to go quilt some more squares – today’s challenge is to see how many I can do in what I estimate will be at least 6 hours spent ‘at the frame’. No, actually that is misleading – I sit in my art deco bridge chair, divinely comfortable, with my quilting ‘hoop’/rectangle and quilt resting on the down-adjusted ironing board, needles thread and scissors to the right hand side at the end. Good light pouring in all round me…and so endeth today’s epistle.