It's not my fandom, but I'm finding it's true that you never forget your first Doctor.  Matt Smith is my Doctor, yes.  So, I was pondering how there is a traditional quilt pattern called "Bowtie."  Does the Doctor wear the same ensemble all the time, featuring that red bowtie?  Or do his ensembles change?

I had about 40 minutes in the pottery studio today, so I hurriedly slapped together more pieces in my flower and fig series (for The Maw and Husband, respectively).  I feel impatient that my lemon platter isn't out of the kiln yet!  I think perhaps I do not have the proper potter spirit.  Instead of relaxing, taking deep breaths, letting the clay form under my hands, I'm slapdash and goal-oriented and I don't care how crude things look as long as I churn them out.  Actually, I like them to look crude; that's part of the earthy appeal and the humor to me.

The Maw and I had an utterly lovely midday together.  She didn't want to go outside, so she had a picnic with her stuffed animals and colored pictures with them.  I finished knitting her eggplant hat.  She ate chestnuts out of my most recent finished ceramic thingie.  She had me tell her the story of her birth and she snuggled up to me while I told her the things Husband and I promised her on the day she was born.



All right, back to making potholders and backup quilts for the bakery show.