Wednesday Work(s) in Progress

What are you working on?

Its a question I get asked a lot.

Recently, the answer isn't very exciting.

The BIG project at the moment isn't so much creative as necessity: I'm clipping recipes from over 8 years of Cooking Light magazines, and putting them in a binder that will (in theory) help me to build weekly menus more efficiently.

The criteria for clipped recipes are:

• must be something at least three-out-of-four family members will eat. 
• ingredients can't be too out of the ordinary.
• shouldn't take more than 30 minutes in prep work.

I did clip a few recipes that didn't meet one, or more, of these criteria, but they will go under the Entertaining category, and are recipes I have already used for that purpose.

So this is what my work table currently looks like:

You see that box in the middle? I'll show you up close...

I am almost embarrassed to tell you that this is my current working recipe box. About six months ago it got knocked off the pantry shelf. Whoever dropped it just scooped all the scraps of paper and cards into a big pile and stuffed them back in the box. I keep meaning to reorganize. Now I am going to add these recipes to the binder. 

My hope is to be finished with this project within the next week or two... which means it won't be done until June.

I have managed a little creative mojo... I finally pieced together this quilt top last weekend:

I'm not going to do the quilt sandwich just yet.  I'm trying to decide if I want to do some hand embroidery on the white squares... we'll see. 

I also am still working on the Dahlia afghan: 

I had finished the squares and began piecing them together, but they were starting to pucker.... grrr.  So I ripped out the seams and set the squares aside. Sometimes time is the best creative inspiration.

What are you working on?