When e and her parents visited recently, we rearranged the green room (also known as the TV room) so e would have more play space. We put the TV up on the desk safely out of e's reach thus freeing up the TV stand, which was a fine height and size for e to use as a table for her toys. Since we've left the room this way I now can use the floor space to pin-baste the three layers of small quilts while watching a movie. Yesterday afternoon I pinned one of the baby quilts I'm working on and watched "August Rush," about a musical prodigy who leaves the orphanage where he's been for 11 years to look for his parents. The film has a mystical or magical quality to it, lots of music, and good actors, including Keri Russell, Robin Williams and Terrence Howard. I enjoyed it so much that I often stopped work just to watch.
After finishing that, I shredded a lot of old credit card receipts before making supper. And then I began taking apart the other baby quilt, the one I was unhappy with. I separated the four rows and some individual blocks. Today I will take apart some of the blocks and replace the way too dark fabrics with lighter ones. If the blocks had been smaller or more fabrics used, these dark prints might have been OK, but with this particular pattern and 1930's style prints the contrast was too great. So out came my seam ripper! Oh, that hurt, to undo my work, but the result will be worth it.
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