New Month, New Me

January is over and done and I've made some changes that have stuck. Thus the "new me" in the title. The monthly marker photo this month is a picture I took in Quail Hollow Ranch under the oaks up towards the sunny sky. I manipulated it in the app KaleidaCam, a very simple slice rotated. I was very excited to see the super interesting structures that were formed by the now connected tree limbs. Almost looks like gears or machinery.

This was the picture I started with, which has an already interesting composition with all of those interlacing and strangely shaped branches. 

Here's the one second every day video for January 2025. 

The monthly I-Did List for January is as follows:

1. I  worked on finishing clues for the Old Town Mystery quilt.
2. I prepared for more work on the Old Town Mystery quilt.
3. I photographed a little demo of easier paper piecing.
4. I made some Community Giving blocks for BAMQ.
5. I started assembling the quilt top for the Sister Artists exhibit.
6. I started assembling the quilt top for the Stretching Art & Tradition exhibit.
7. I started and finished free-motion quilting Our Mistake for the Stretching Art & Tradition exhibit.
8. I started and finished free-motion quilting Structured Sky for the Sister Artists exhibit.

That's a pretty good list I'd say. I tried my best to concentrate on first sewing some of the blocks for the Old Town mystery quilt and then clear the worktable so I could begin making the two quilts that I have due early this month. There were many times I wished I had three machines set up in my workroom so I could trade off easily on various projects. But that is not ever going to be my actual studio setup. I caught myself about to veer off to work on something else that was on my January to-do list, but I really wanted to get these two quilts done. *pats self on back*

I also posted blog posts on here 26/31 days, I posted on Instagram 6 times, on Threads 2 times, on Facebook 0 times, and on BlueSky 56 times. Blue Sky is really pretty good now, there's a lot of interesting folks on there, and the vibe is so much better than what's left of Twitter/X. I started an account over at PixelFed, which will hopefully become a replacement for Instagram. I also started an account at StoryGraph to track my reading. It was really easy to import my many years of data from GoodReads. 

Meanwhile, out in the real world, we hiked locally, we had dinner with my folks, and had a two-night getaway with friends to Lake Tahoe for NYE.