I Like Thursday: Lots of Work

You know the Harry Potter flying keys that I admired at the library?  The librarians hated to take them down, so they hung them as ornaments on the library's Christmas tree.  I commented  how much I loved them and asked if I could have a key when they took down the tree.  Sure!  In fact, grab one now so we don't forget.  So now I have my very own golden flying key.  Love it!  It currently hangs on my advent wreath.

Okay, so here's a weird like - I've been enjoying car shopping with Rob.  Car shopping itself - not so great.  We rode in a few gawd-awful cars and laughed the entire test drive.  I loved the make of one of the cars, it was fun to drive, but the car itself was worn around the edges, had rips in the upholstery, smelled of cigarettes and I had to guess how to put it in reverse, since the stick was missing its diagram.  Ha!  But tooling around, commenting on what we liked and didn't like about each car was fun.

Still no car, but I have a better idea of what I want to get.  Now if I could just find it at a reasonable price....

I'm about halfway through quilting the strip twist quilt.  I decided to try graffiti quilting.  I did a bunch of doodling, which is now hanging in front of my sewing machine to help me think of what to do next when I'm stuck.

I really like what I have so far.  It's been fun, although slow going.  I was cruising along for about an hour, then spent an hour changing needles, pulling out and burying threads because I kept skipping stitches.  It was driving me nuts!  Suddenly everything started to work again and I got another hour of quilting done before my shoulders told me to stop (it's hard work moving that quilt!).

My three days off whizzed by (mostly with the car shopping).  But I like that I got to spend most of an afternoon quilting and writing up Christmas cards (only a few more to go).

I like that a quilt top that I donated last year has been completed and sent to California for one of the fire victims.  I hope it gives them a little comfort.

I'm one of several blogs with things to like.  You can find the collection of them over at Not Afraid of Color's I Like Thursday.