One Dozen Leap Frogs

 

The Internet is devilishly good at guessing what you’ll find tempting. Lately, it’s been showing me something called Quilter’s Decision Dice. It’s a single wooden cube (shouldn’t it be called Quilter’s Decision Die?) with a choice written on each of the six sides: clean sewing space, organize stash, buy fabric, start a new project, finish a U.F.O. (unfinished fabric object), and bind a quilt. None of the sides say “stitch a quilt block,” how I spend most days. I try to tidy my work space every day. “Organize stash” happens every five years or so. I try to limit fabric purchases, because there’s a real danger of being buried in cotton. Lately, I’ve only been buying fabric that will help me finish U.F.O.s. I bind roughly a dozen quilts of varying sizes per year, and donate or gift most of them. Clearly, I need to “start a new project” less often, because the backlog is growing.