Queue

We've all been there: a room with a hint of a suggestion of a loose idea of a line. Nobody's officially in charge, but every person in that room knows exactly their position in the invisible queue. Newcomers are eyeballed suspiciously--will they try to jump ahead? Fat chance of that happening; a gentle correction ("I believe she was here before you") generally keeps things well in (invisible) line. The only time I've heard any kind of disagreement in these situations is when one person suggests, "You were here before me?" and the other replies, "No, no--you go first."

This phenomenon isn't restricted to mere mortals, by the way. As various projects were coming out of Leader-Ender status and into Full-on-Project mode . . .

All the triangle squares for the Lady of the Lake centers, sewn into 3- and 5-square strips.

. . . and a new project was gaining its head of steam . . .

Centers and first rounds done on 63 blocks (7 bunches of 9, if you're counting), with the second-round triangles ready to go.

Rounds 3 through 6 sorted and generated where necessary (as you might imagine, the largest triangles were in short supply and needed to be created from chunks and FQs).

. . . I kept hearing a polite but insistent voice coming from the POUT ("Projects On Unlimited Timeout") drawer: "Excuse me. I've been here longer than either of those. It's my turn now!"

The Triple Treat blocks, Bonnie Hunter's 2022 Leader-Ender Challenge, have been waiting quietly for almost three years to come out and play again. All additional parts had been made over the years (the posts and sashes) and tucked carefully into the POUT drawer with the blocks.

Until this week! Once that drawer was opened, like the contents of Pandora's Box everything flew out and made its way onto all available surfaces, hogging my attention and energy for the past several days.

By quittin' time this afternoon  (90 minutes ago at this writing), this was adorning the design wall:

Other than keeping like fabrics from being in the same diamond, and distancing some of the more noticeable neutral sashes from each other (you can see them, I know you can), I didn't do much planning or deliberate arranging. It became clear early on that there was so much color and movement that things like that weren't going to be noticed. (And yet, while typing this, I see that I managed to get two red Hershey Kisses fabrics together at the bottom. Oh well. I guess I'll adjust to life as a quilting pariah.)