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The Quilting Groove
Jul. 28th, 2019 09:26 pmI am back home! The trip was a lot. I'm glad I went, and a lot of good stuff happened, but also I am so tired. The jetlag is starting to wear off, which means I'm waking up at dawn instead of four o'clock. I feel like dawn is best appreciated at a reasonable hour via other people's photos.
I haven't wanted to work on anything I started, so of course I've begun new projects. I noodled around with a Delectable Mountains design (the strip version, not the half square triangle version), trying to make one whose strips finished at a quarter inch across. I don't recommend doing that, incidentally. It's a massive pain in the ass, since at that size two thirds of the fabric is gobbled up by seam allowances, so if you make the blocks the easy way from half square triangles you wind up with hilariously elongated blocks. I would need to do Seminole patchwork strip cutting to get anything reasonable. I made a few sample blocks with garbage fabric. Then I fell down a rabbit hole and drew about eighty geometric quilt blocks in my graph paper notebook. Who knows if a sampler quilt will come of it? It is currently just fun to play with the designs.
It's nice to have a variety of hobbies. I kinda regret that I don't have the... energy? brain space? for pursuing more than one at a time. Changing channels is hard, so whatever creative pursuit has hooked me gets to keep me until it is done. I'm currently in a quilting groove. When that wears off, I ought to get back to transcribing, or maybe finish my dang laundry hamper or wait, the quilt I need to finish patching up and mail off is the most time sensitive, because I have candy to put in the mail with it. But I have been banned from working on the quilt until I have finished my laundry hamper, so I guess laundry hamper it is. Ah well.
I haven't wanted to work on anything I started, so of course I've begun new projects. I noodled around with a Delectable Mountains design (the strip version, not the half square triangle version), trying to make one whose strips finished at a quarter inch across. I don't recommend doing that, incidentally. It's a massive pain in the ass, since at that size two thirds of the fabric is gobbled up by seam allowances, so if you make the blocks the easy way from half square triangles you wind up with hilariously elongated blocks. I would need to do Seminole patchwork strip cutting to get anything reasonable. I made a few sample blocks with garbage fabric. Then I fell down a rabbit hole and drew about eighty geometric quilt blocks in my graph paper notebook. Who knows if a sampler quilt will come of it? It is currently just fun to play with the designs.
It's nice to have a variety of hobbies. I kinda regret that I don't have the... energy? brain space? for pursuing more than one at a time. Changing channels is hard, so whatever creative pursuit has hooked me gets to keep me until it is done. I'm currently in a quilting groove. When that wears off, I ought to get back to transcribing, or maybe finish my dang laundry hamper or wait, the quilt I need to finish patching up and mail off is the most time sensitive, because I have candy to put in the mail with it. But I have been banned from working on the quilt until I have finished my laundry hamper, so I guess laundry hamper it is. Ah well.
