In the last 12 hours I have:
1. Ruined Eli’s morning.
He woke up later than usual, and came along when I walked the dog. It was so lovely! He’s been working really long hours (sometimes working until 5a, and then getting up to get to work by 9a as well as working on weekends), so I figured he was taking a little down time.
We get back home and were prepping for breakfast. He asked, “Do we have time for pancakes?”
He makes the most wonderful banana cinnamon pancakes (sugar-free, yay!) and I dearly wanted to say yes, of course there was time. But my brain played back through the morning events.
Me: “Honey… today’s Friday. It’s not Saturday.”
Eli: “What?”
Me: “It’s Friday.”
Eli: “Haha.”
Me: “I’m…..I’m not joking.”
After checking his phone, and finally realizing I wasn’t just messing with him, he dejectedly started getting ready for work.
I really should have told him after he made the pancakes.
2. Been interviewed!
Cari at There’s a Thread conducted a really fun interview, in which I got to talk about how Play Crafts started, how Palette Builder works, and how I use the tool myself. You can read the interview on There’s a Thread. So much fun! How does one go from programming video games to designing quilting tools? I swear there’s a connection, and I talk about it there.
3. Remembered I did a guest post last week, but forgot to post about it. (oops!)
In my defense, it got posted when I was flying to Sewing Summit, and there was chaos of the conference and such, but yah, basically I suck. The post is about Palette Builder and my Red Dragonfly broken herringbone quilt. The quilt top is on display at Hart’s Fabric in Santa Cruz, CA which is also who the guest blog post was for. I talk briefly (for once!) about working from a photo towards a completed quilt.
Can’t wait to see what the next 12 hours bring!
-Anne
What a bummer. Nice relaxing walk together. Enjoying each others company. Anticipating yummy pancakes. Then… Poof! Reality check!
Your quilt top… Amazing! It looks even gorgeouser than the design you posted with the sweet dragonfly.
I have shared it on my fb page, with a link back to here and to your fb page. Hope you don’t mind!
Congrats on all of the wonderful things that are going on since your world of tech and your love of quilts collided!
I felt SO terrible when I realized that he thought it was Saturday. I mean, what a crappy thing to do to someone, right? Eesh. Also…pancakes…
You’re so sweet, thank you for the kind words about the quilt top, Lorna! And of course I don’t mind you linking on your Facebook page!
I’m thrilled to be shown among such good company!
Love the finished quilt top! P.S. I’m loving learning that we’re even more kindred spirits since I totally related to your last post about your pets! (Not that my new instagram account is 90% photos of my cats or anything like that).
Oh my gosh, my instagram is ridiculous with my pets! I just went and found you on instagram, and you have a grey kitty like ours! And your black kitty is gorgeous, too!
Man, quilting with cats. We joke that it’s one of the higher difficulty levels of whatever we’re doing. “Cooking, challenge level: dog.” “Quilting, challenge level: two cats.” Or whatever. Because it’s a whooooleeee new ball game when they get involved!
The loss of pancakes is always something to be mourned, haha! Poor Eli!
And I loved reading about the behind-the-scenes stuff of Play Crafts! Thanks!
Oh man, seriously, PANCAKES. Good news, tomorrow is Saturday so there WILL be pancakes.
It’s part of our Saturday ritual. 
I’m glad you enjoyed hearing about what goes on back here! I never know what people will find interesting, but it was fun to just let it out there.
it’s great being friends with someone famous
Even if they do ruin their boyfriend’s day LOL
HAhahahahaha well you know how us famous people can get callous with mere mortals. lol
All day long Eli’s been IMing me and teasing me about how it’s not Saturday. I feel SO terrible, poor guy!! He REALLY didn’t want to believe me this morning, to the point where I started doubting myself!
that is the MOST ADORABLE photo of the two of you!
Awww thank you!! The family photo shoot with Mishka was my Christmas gift to Eli last year.
It was a lot of fun! The photos are taken in the fields on the college campus near me. 
I really like how your quilt top turned out and the wide border. The colour placement is really beautiful. Hope you get pancakes over the weekend!
I totally got pancakes over the weekend, yay!
It was funny because Saturday morning started SO similarly to Friday morning that we both kept reassuring each other it was really Saturday. 
I’m glad you like the wide border! That wasn’t my original plan, but I ran out of time to make more blocks, so I made the wide border to bring it up to the size I wanted it to be. lol Design by Deadline!
Love your herringbone quilt! I NEED to make one of those…
I hope you do make a herringbone quilt! I’d love to see your take on it.