Quilting, quilting, and more quilting

I've made great progress on the quilt this week. There may be more quilting before bedtime, but for now I'm letting my hands and fingers rest. It is reasonable to hope that the actual quilting will be done sometime in the next week and that I may get started on binding the edges.

I've been reading my first issue of "The Economist." The second issue is waiting, untouched. I may or may not finish the first before the third issue arrives next week. Some of the articles are a faster read than others. I'm not entirely sure why I'm doing this. But as I discussed with Middlest recently, much of my life has been spent in survival mode, and now I'm finally able to look outside my (our) four walls, beyond our immediate family, into the world at large. There is so much to learn. And the Lord, through His prophets, has encouraged us to learn as much as we can about as many things as we can. While I would much prefer to continue focusing on the fiber arts and my scriptures, I will probably be more useful in the eternities if I have an updated knowledge of business and finance, what's going on in countries I might never have heard of, and how the pundits in Old Blighty think everything ties together. I have discovered a podcast on BBC4 (In Our Time) about all sorts of fascinating things. I listened to 3.2 episodes this afternoon while quilting and then knitting.

Right now my fingers are sore, my hands are not as tired as they were half an hour ago, and my eyes and ears are also less tired. I think I will gather up some reasonably healthy snacks and go read/listen awhile longer.

In knitting news, I finished the first baby sock in another pair from the leftovers of Hitchhiker. And I've added a few more rows on Leftie. I enjoy Martina Behm's designs. They are witty and appeal to my inner math geek.

I've updated another spreadsheet and downloaded some missing e-statements to my C:drive and my external. By the end of the year I hope to have everything that Middlest downloaded from my profile on Beloved's laptop properly sorted into my C:drive and backed up.

I ordered a pair of earrings from an Etsy shop last night. Rose gold wire work. Name of the shop? Pillar of Salt Studio; Sara Lott is the shop owner. So naturally I had to check it out.