Why can't I work smaller

I keep asking myself.  I sure had planned to do just that when I started planning this last piece.  But  I didn't,  it is 70" square

There are several reasons I should limit myself, one being my  ironing surface is 30" x 60"  and I keep wishing it was 72" or larger but no space to make it so.  My cutting surface is 36" x 48" and 72" in one direction would be helpful but again, where would I put it.
My design wall is 10 feet wide by 6 feet tall so I know I can not work larger than 72 inches and have no wall space to make it larger taller and  in all honesty working on 4 feet of that 10 feet width is nearly impossible unless I want to go to a whole lot of trouble to move a cabinet and my sewing table out of the way.

You would think, "think small" would be my mantra after assessing my work space and wrestling a 72" x 80" quilt, three quilt ago.

This why I can not take pictures of my quilts is they are larger than 40 inches long.  This is the backing for my latest piece and I can not get all of its length in the viewfinder.  

Quilting is done

and the binding is on.  Getting ready to do the hand stitching.

Over the last few days as I sat quilting, my mind kept wondering around through different designs for my next piece.  Every so often I would pause quilting, get up and stretch and go sit again at the computer and play around in EQ8.  I would  contemplate a block or two and manipulate them to see the possibilities.

I haven't settle on anything yet but I  do know that what ever I do next will be in the colors below.  I am so over black and white.

Some of the fabrics below are Kona cotton solids and other are my hand dyes using Kona cotton PFD which I dyed to be solids rather than mottled.

Last May I purchased three small washing machines for my wet space and thought I could get lots of fabric dyed before the heat of summer here in Florida set in.  I was wrong.  We had no pleasant Spring.  It went from our Winter to Summer in what seemed like the blink of an eye.  Two days of dyeing producing 15 yards was all I could stay in the garage long enough to get done because of the heat and flying insects wanting to make a meal of me.

 Long years ago I took a dyeing workshop from Judy Walter where we took turns stirring big pots of fabric.  Had to have been 1988-89.  Although I loved the outcome, I decided then and there I would not be dyeing my own cloth.  But time changes things.  Around 1994-95 I picked up and read A. Buffington(?) book about how she dyed fabric in zip lock bags.  No more endless stirring.  I was hooked and  I have been dyeing fabric ever since.  

Here are my machines sloshing away.