I Am Seriously Addicted

I am a fiberaholic. There, I have admitted it. I love all things fabric, ribbons, thread, yarns; fiberlike stuff. When I was in Maine I succumbed to this obsession by purchasing the materials to make a quilt. This is not a little needlework project, but a whole giant blanket I am attempting to make.
For me there is joy in just owning the materials, but as I have gotten older I have gotten a little better about actually finishing projects. My large collection of needlepoint Christmas ornaments is testament that I can actually use many of the fibers I own.
Since I was stuck at home today with my 18 workmen/women I decided it was a good day start my quilt project. I finished watching the five part YouTube series about how to make a quilt so I felt like I should begin before I forgot all that I learned. I had picked a very simple quilt pattern to make as my first attempt, but it still involved a lot of cutting. Thank god for the rotary cutter and self healing mat and giant ass ruler. I have 16 different patterns of materials that I cut out today into little strips, ready to be sewn together. That job took a long time, but when I was done I was quite satisfied with the quality. This just set me up to begin the sewing section.
It is slow going since I am trying to be precise in my sewing but the well cut strips are helping me out. I have about two and a half weeks before Carter comes home and I want to see if I can get this done before she gets home.  
Of course this means that my needlepoint has taken a back seat, to just work that is done while I watch TV at night. I ran into my friend Francis who is a major quilter and I told her that I had started. “We will turn you into a quilter and you will give up needlepoint,” she told me. “I can do both because you can’t exactly take quilts on a trip to work on,” I told her. She agreed. 
I also have a large investment in my needlepoint fibers and that addiction is deep. I wonder if I was an old woman at a spinning wheel in a former life? Maybe I can take up spinning now and make my own fibers.