Lily Tomlin! (Needs an Oscar)

A baby quilt has all the same steps as a king-size quilt, just on a much smaller scale. Even if you don't know any babies, you can usually find nearby organizations that distribute blankets to families in need.

And a pair of quilted potholders is a low-stakes but good way to practice using a walking foot (if you have one) and binding.

I like how some of the best books of the century so far according to Kirkus weren't good enough to get a starred review from Kirkus when they were originally published.

It looks amazing as it is. Bind it!

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

My favorite too. The star gets a little lost for me when the center is light, as in options 1 and 2.

Trog is an absolutely terrible movie about an anthropologist who tries to communicate with a troglodyte found in a cave but Joan gives it 100%.

Thank you for this! In most things, I am stuck in the 70s.

I’ve had pain there that gets better/goes away with the RICE treatment. Rest Ice Compression Elevation. Do some of each every day for a week or so. Also the towel stretch.

Have you read The Known World by Edward P. Jones? I think a fan of Baldwin and Morrison (of which I am too) would dig it. Historical epic with really compelling characters and an interesting sense of time and place. I loved it.

Seconding this. I made a quilt last year with exactly your scheme and I quilted diagonally in the neutral squares in both directions.

Wanda fans should check out Natalie Léger’s book Suite for Barbara Loden. It’s fantastic.

Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Ah, yeah, then you're going to want to go the other direction. I liked the stitch-in-the-ditch suggestion elsewhere on the thread.

This is beautiful! The package your batting came in will likely tell you the maximum number of inches allowed between quilted stitches. It's generally 8 inches or so. Eyeballing this, I'd say you've got that. This doesn't mean that aesthetically you don't need more stitches...(I don't think you do.)

Random.

Enchanted April.

It’s really funny, first of all. It’s also short so it’s necessarily more focused as the plot goes. It’s a really simple premise but it unfolds in unexpected ways. Terrific characters.

I think Norwood is just about perfect.

Agree on the book. It's beautiful.

I highly recommend that book! Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of New Hollywood by Mark Harris

Meat Cat.

This is my biggest robbery. Grrrr.

We should report this to the White House's hotline for anti-Christian bias.

The Mare by Mary Gaitskill, The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan, and Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley.