Just like it is easier to write to someone every couple of days than twice a year, I think it would be easier to blog if I did it more often. Then I could just keep track of the daily little details and not feel like anything had to be significant. But this quilt does feel significant so I wanted to get it fixed in the blogosphere. I started several weeks ago making pieces for a quilt called "Four Patch Plaid". It had a lot of white in it. I made 233 four patch pieces (that's a lot!) and many other pieces besides and finally started sewing it together. When I finished about six rows I hung it up and saw that I really hated it. It was boring in the extreme. So I pulled it all apart and began fooling with only the colored pieces. This is what happened and I really love it. So much for all my talk about sewing something monochromatic. It is ready to take to my quilting friend Joan Herrick to be finished on a long arm machine.

When Margaret was in her cooking frenzy after she came home from Denison in May she made a Giada dish that Rick remembered with great fondness. She told me where to get the recipe and tonight I am making it again and Rick will come for dinner. The dish is ziti with asparagus and smoked mozarella and her rendition was memorable. I hope mine compares favorably. Rick and John plan to watch the Red Sox game tonight. I have a talk to give to the genealogy group on Wednesday so I should come up here and work on it.