Last weekend, I spent Saturday ironing this quilt top and all day Sunday smoothing, pinning, smoothing, unpinning, smoothing, pinning, calling my mom and finally basting my first full-sized quilt on the kitchen table. This has been a work in progress for the last 5 or 6 years although I have started and finished a few smaller baby quilts in the meantime. I didn't have the room to lay it flat to baste in Tokyo, but now that I have the space, I'm (mostly) happily back to work. I had a moment last Sunday afternoon when I was certain this would by my first and last quilt of this size, but now that it's basted and ready to hand-quilt, all that back-breaking work is forgotten.

Bring on the Olympics!