By sion, on February 28th, 2009%
 we had our second gathering at my place today, and it went swimmingly. Rosemary got most of a top done, which boggled my tiny mind – I think it was for the bushfire drives. Wendy got a big pile of gorgeous fan blocks organised (with Miss E’s opinionated help) and stitched together, and I roughed an alternate gingko leaf for her to sashiko into the corners. Laurel spent most of the day sewing away on one of the many quilts she’s wading into, Judy was doing something I missed down in the corner (as well as a bit of teaching/helping, which nobody was surprised by heh), Trish spent most of the morning discussing & planning a new project, Margaret sewed umpty bazillion fleece squares together for yet another camp quality quilt, and Mum got a convergence top more than halfway done. Plus we had fun! I only took a few pics unfortunately, when ma had reached a cool point in her top, but I’ll try to do better next time.
 
  In amongst putzing around on the computer (showing people interesting quilts etc, looking for a wholesale source for vliesofix, looking at Vic Textiles’ batting options, finding an open gingko leaf pic, blah blah etc) and dealing with her highness (who was actually being pretty charming and wonderful, which was great given what a total monster she’s been all week) I was working on the giraffe.
By “working” I mostly mean agonising over fabric choices. This or that, wish this was bigger, wish that was stronger, not sure about the other, etc. In the end I went back to one of the fabrics I’d been drawn to from the word go and decided to just deal with the difficulties of using a fat quarter when what you need is a 30cm full-width strip. I’m pretty damn happy at how it’s looking so far, so I’m glad I decided to just bite the bullet and cut into this long-hoarded piece of holy fabric.
Then tonight sis gave me a turtle necklace she brought home from Costa Rica, which made me want to do the turtle tonight. Luckily I’d brought the cartoon and an assortment of fabrics over with me, so I did:
Yes, I know what it looks like the fabric tortoise and the sketch are doing. No, it wasn’t intentional.
My apologies if any of the above is gobbledegook; I am asleep in my chair. A sane person would wait til tomorrow to post, but I’m living dangerously, doods …
By sion, on February 14th, 2009%
 yay, done. Pity it doesn’t look markedly better in the pic than the “semi-before” pics (it does in the flesh!). Oh well. I was thinking at some stage I might have to paint or cover those black tables, and I might do something about the poor old kitchen cutting table while I’m at it. First though I need to get the design wall stuff up. But not now. Right now I’m going to bed, and I refuse to care that the rest of the house is a bomb site …
ETA … that blue is unbelievably obnoxious in photos. Not nearly as overpowering in person, but even so, I wonder if the landlord will let me paint it all white? White would be good.
By sion, on February 12th, 2009%
guess what arrived today?
it’s gorgeous and comfy and makes me feel pretty (and hey, pretending is good for the soul <G&rt;) … thanks SO much, Vickie. I totally, totally love it.
By sion, on July 15th, 2006%
One of these days I’ll get used to the BUSYBUSYBUSY … whew, relax before I catch up on that other stu … awcrapBUSYBUSYBUSY rhythm of my life I guess, but meantime I’ll continue to grumble about it occasionally. Perhaps the semi-quiet periods – especially the ones where I don’t have the energy or inspiration to do anything remotely useful – are better thought of as fallow times than just wasted opportunities.
It has always seemed odd to me though that when I’ve got my lazy bum kicked into gear and I’m all fired up and organised and trying to be totally focused on a project, umptyump other things crowd around like ants to a picnic demanding their share of the goodies. The other things are rarely things I resent doing or anything, and in fact are often things I enjoy, but they’re still distractions from the prime directive of the moment. 5 weeks or so deadline on this wallhanging, which is fine, but:
- the “should take you an hour or so to do” graphics project I agreed to a fortnight ago turns out on receipt to be rather more complicated and extensive than that (ordinarily no problem, just shitty timing)
- someone who buys my jewellery reasonably often dithered too long about a necklace & missed out, so ordered a replica through C. She’s a beader herself, maybe I should just sell her the special beads? heh
- C’s after me to do more jewellery for the shop, because it’s looking a bit sparse
- because this other stuff is going OI OI OI!, I’m feeling increasingly guilty about the stuff for el’s room that still isn’t finished
- the ex is on his way down for four days, and sounds grumpy and headachey (yay fun), and will probably take a crapzillion photos of our beautiful daughter against the backdrop of waist-high drifts of fabric and the playroom she keeps destructobotting behind me as I try to organise it (c’mon, teeny violin for me!)
Meanwhile, it’s raining for real, actual wet stuff from the sky, so it’s dark and wet and not conducive to painting & discharging fabric, plus it’s all gloomy inside. Upside is that it’s not as cold as it has been lately, go figgah.
 Also meanwhile, I’m kind of at the point where I need to be looking for flowers to put in this wallhanging. I did find a bunch when I was doing the exhibition flyer (at left) so with any luck some of them will prove suitable for applique design.
And I think I’m going to make myself feel better by at least knocking up el’s doonah cover for tonight. Seeya!
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