August Already?!?

Phew, I finished ring number nine on my hexagon scrap quilt. As you can see, I am quite pleased with it ;-)



In my pattern of light/medium/light/medium/light/dark, I need a ring of lights next. I will need 60 of these, so time to get basting. But before I start that I must attend to some other stuff, like:

• finishing sewing the binding on George's quilt
• making some Christmas presents ( I shamefully didn't manage to get a thing made in July for Allie's Christmas Through the Year challenge)
• getting Waif's quilt layered and basted ready to quilt

So I am going to be a good girl and do these things before I start on the next round!

I will, of course, be continuing with my good things journal:



And, eek, it's two thirds of the way thru the ICAD Challenge:



And the, on the 13th August, there's the small matter of the Festival of Quilts.Woooooohooooooooo! Excited, me??!  Ooh, no, I am very composed.

Good Things

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.
Why not try and see positive things,
to just touch those things and make them bloom? - Thich Nhat Hanh

Good Things

I've been keeping up with the Good Things:



More words, not as many sketches this week...

Good Things

Recently a friend lent me this book:



It's an inspiring and fabulous collection of a variety of artists' sketchbooks. An idea from it that I was particularly taken with was from Christine Castro Hughes who creates a "Good Things" journal for each week, she says to "remind myself what is good and beautiful in the world".



I think this can be something we all too often lose sight of in our hectic lives. So I have decided to undertake this process too, and here's my first week's spread:



And a couple of pics of some of the good things:

Gazanias opening up in the sunshine



Indigo fabrics flapping about on the breeze:





Here's hoping this week brings many more good things!