Quilting, blogging, reading - who has time to work?

Having dived in the deep end with this blog during a training course I have just dipped into two books on blogging and found out what I could have done better. Ah well, perhaps it is, as we quilters say, a UFO (unfinished object) or PhD (project half done), or perhaps better yet a WIP (work in progress). I definitely need a new title and the brain is working on it.
It is a little like some other unfinished ideas of mine. I do wonder if other quilters attend classes, do the projects and techniques and then never find time to return to try more. I attended a wonderful class using fabric pastels and pencils and made a sample piece. I now have sets of oil pastels, Derwent watercolour and Inktense pencils, the books Faux Applique by Helen Stubbings, and Quilts of a Different Color by Irena Bluhm. lots of ideas, but nothing further made yet.
Similarly a Gloria Loughman workshop produced this and I also have her Luminous Landscapes book.





I would love to make another project using her techniques and I'd like new wallhangings to complement some home decorating we are doing, so maybe this year is the year to try these techniques again.

In the meantime it's back to my warm conservatory, my bean bag, and Nora Roberts Sanctuary which is proving to be an intriguing read. When I can put that down it's time to retire to my sewing room to wrestle my large mystery quilt together. I cheated by sewing the shorter rows at each end  first, but this will now come back to haunt me as I have to handle the long rows in the middle. I'm really looking forward to trying out putting the border together so better get a move on.