What's the BEST Thing . . .

. . . about staying up half the night a couple nights in a row to quilt? When you're ready to collapse and hit the sack early, you have a nice new quilt to snuggle under!

I think "snuggle's" the wrong word, but it sounds good, doesn't it? I wish it WAS snuggle weather! Instead, we're getting smoke from the Northern California fires again--it almost looks like fog at times--and our temps are generally up around 110 degrees. I don't think our air conditioner even goes low enough to reach "snuggle" temps, but I can pretend, can't I?

Tonight's Thimbleberries Club meeting was awesome--as always! Our group is made up of a great bunch of gals and I really enjoy spending time with them and seeing what everyone's been doing.

The meeting finished a bit early, and it's a good thing too because I'm about ready to go to sleep for about 20 hours. I zipped through the McDonald's drive thru on the way home and picked up a self-indulgent, high fat dinner as my "reward" for completing the quilt. I would just pat myself on the back, but my stiff and sore shoulders and neck won't allow it right now, so I settled for a burger and fries. Hey, a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do, right?!

And here's how I'll spend the rest of the night--

I've signed up to swap a Thimbleberries mini Christmas quilt, so I've collected quite a few of my older Thimbleberries Christmas books to hunt for a pattern and/or inspiration. These will come to bed with me. I'd prefer a muscle ripped pool boy (and a pool to go with him) but there doesn't seem to be any hanging around right now so I'll go with the quilt books. I guess this is just one of those nights when I have to settle for the next best thing.

And just in case I can't find anything I like in THOSE books, I've pulled out a few of the Thimbleberries pint size books.

And because I COULDN'T go to our club meeting and not buy anything, I brought home a couple charm packs of the new fall fabric, Harvest Reflections, and some suitable border fabric from the line. And since I was up on my little ladder in the Sweat Shop, looking through my Thimbleberries books anyway, I pulled out a couple fall books.

I used to buy every Thimbleberries book that came out, but they started getting a little repetitive, so I've only been buying a few. But that would explain my rather extensive "library" of Thimbleberries books. By the way, the new hard cover book celebrating 20 years of Thimbleberries is a nice one to add to any collection--besides the quilts, the photos and Lynette Jensen's thoughts on vintage collectibles make for yummy reading, particularly if you've succumbed to the lure of the thrift store like a $10 hooker to crack. But I digress.

Tonight, once I've exhausted my capacity to indulge in all things Thimbleberries, I have this new Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine to read and Tylenol PM to take. Not that I think I'll have trouble going to sleep, but the Tylenol should help the aches and pains and the PM part will help me sleep longer than five hours. Sorry for the slightly blurry photos tonight. Or is it my blood-shot, slightly blurry eyes?

I hope you too can find time to indulge in the things you enjoy! I'm glad you dropped in!