Instagram?
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crockpotcauldronI have made an Instagram! I am very tired of wrestling with dreamwidth's picture hosting, and also I want to socialize with quilters. You can check it out - my screen name there is quarteryarrrd. I decorated a spool of quilting thread with a skull and crossbones for my avatar!
Speaking of socializing with quilters, I attended a modern quilt guild meeting. There was a lot going on, but I'm kinda on the fence. On the one hand, I want to try to befriend the two or three quilters my age there. On the other hand, I'm still not sold on modern quilting as an artistic movement, though they did like Smaug and my alien quilt.
Did I show you guys my alien quilt? I started it by hand because Otto's lightbulb blew but I still wanted to quilt, and then things got out of hand once the lightbulb arrived.
I hope this link works...
https://www.instagram.com/p/B32sRSwnWF3/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet
I'm very pleased with how it turned out with just scraps. I think the background was left over from a friend's Star Wars quilt years ago, and I see leftovers from at least six quilts of mine. I've doodled more alien designs, including a cow alien and an alien donut race, but we shall see how many of them make their way into fabric. Some things are better on paper - I was noodling around with a labyrinth design, and I tested it out on paper before committing to cutting and sewing several hundred squares of cloth. Turns out, not only is cutting squares awful, the pattern is extremely high contrast and busy and I would not like it on my bed. I don't even want it hanging in my direct line of sight - I stuck it to the back of my door, and enjoy seeing it occasionally. My mind won't stop following the paths, and while I enjoy that sometimes, I have other stuff to do!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B32z3iInISp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Speaking of socializing with quilters, I attended a modern quilt guild meeting. There was a lot going on, but I'm kinda on the fence. On the one hand, I want to try to befriend the two or three quilters my age there. On the other hand, I'm still not sold on modern quilting as an artistic movement, though they did like Smaug and my alien quilt.
Did I show you guys my alien quilt? I started it by hand because Otto's lightbulb blew but I still wanted to quilt, and then things got out of hand once the lightbulb arrived.
I hope this link works...
https://www.instagram.com/p/B32sRSwnWF3/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet
I'm very pleased with how it turned out with just scraps. I think the background was left over from a friend's Star Wars quilt years ago, and I see leftovers from at least six quilts of mine. I've doodled more alien designs, including a cow alien and an alien donut race, but we shall see how many of them make their way into fabric. Some things are better on paper - I was noodling around with a labyrinth design, and I tested it out on paper before committing to cutting and sewing several hundred squares of cloth. Turns out, not only is cutting squares awful, the pattern is extremely high contrast and busy and I would not like it on my bed. I don't even want it hanging in my direct line of sight - I stuck it to the back of my door, and enjoy seeing it occasionally. My mind won't stop following the paths, and while I enjoy that sometimes, I have other stuff to do!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B32z3iInISp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Date: 2019-10-26 04:47 pm (UTC)Florida is a tough climate. I deal with mid-atlantic crud, but I couldn't do the heat/humidity in Florida.
I don't know how often people want strange things from the Locker Plant. However, they handle requests without judgment and if you want stuff like Calf Liver or Kidneys or whatever, you need to go there because the local grocery doesn't have that sort of thing.