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The four-patch quilt is Officially Finished, as of last night. Now I can go on to quilting the Bears in the Woods wallhanging ( http://www.sews.com/books/quilting/1018293l.jpg -- only my log cabin star is purples, my bear claw blocks are blacks, and the flying geese triangles are purples, blacks, and greens -- the trees are still greens only with black trunks), which is all layered and ready to go. The only thing about that pattern, which has directions in two sizes (an 84" square bedsized quilt and a 42" square wallhanging) is that when you make the smaller size, those pieces get *tiny.* A six-inch bear paw block isn't the easiest thing in the world to make. It was worth it, though. It's going to look lovely on my blue/gray/green bedroom wall.

Figured out what I'm going to make for the sofa-throw-sized quilt I'm going to make for the nephew and new niece-in-law's wedding next spring, too. I'm going to adapt a pattern I was toying around with in EQ5 ( http://www.electricquilt.com ). Scrappy stars and four-patches in greens and rusts and browns and creams (the colors of their living room). It'll go together quickly, and I'll probably just machine-quilt it.

The shoulder is still doing okay (but then I'm still taking the medicine), and the writing is *definitely* going better.

Off to the Olympic Peninsula tomorrow! Ocean, and rainforest, and alpine meadows... What more could you ask for???