Playing in the workshop, these fabrics asked to be friends. The block/mini-quilt/placemat is about 14 by 19 inches, I think.
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I have gone to quilt shows since about the age of 12, when my mom started making quilts. I wasn’t sure how to feel about putting a quilt in a show (blowing my own horn or sharing ideas?). In the end, I decided, for me, for now, that it was more like sharing. I’m so glad I did. This year’s show was just amazing, and I was glad to be a (small) part of it.
It was very inspiring, and a little intimidating: There was some serious talent on display.
Just a few favorites (I had a lot, this year!)
A gentleman (ok, that’s B) looking at my quilt
We use checks about three times a year (and I wish I could personally thank the person who invented debit cards). We do carry the checkbook, though, and the checks were getting smashed up.
So I made this. Wouldn’t you know *after making this* I found a lovely way to do corners…
The front (I ran out of fabric and had to piece it)
The back
Closed
I am close on 30 years old, and I hadn’t ever carved a pumpkin.
No time like the present.
This process took quite a bit longer than I thought it should, er, would. I’ll save you the gory photos of me scraping out the inside of the pumpkin.
The sketch (from a book about the villages of the Loire Valley)
After gutting the pumpkin and scraping, scraping, scraping the sides…cutting out the little bits
The finished pumpkin, with all the lights off
The finished pumpkin in the light
Turns out I missed the blog. There is an odd phenomenon that when the blog is up, the creativity gets spread thinner as I try to be interesting here. But when the blog is down, I have more projects that I could share, um, on a blog. I’m going to try to keep the posts further apart, and see if that gives me the re-charge I need.
Plus, you take the blog down and then get to be an audience member of the Martha Stewart sewing show. How’s that for bad timing? Don’t get your hopes up for amazing photos of her set, or her, as I didn’t take the camera inside. I was trying to be rather existential and fully present and in the moment and everything. But, some outside shots (thanks, B)!
We had a great time in NYC. And I met some very nice people while standing in line.
I really wanted a show-and-tell of everyone’s projects after the show, but no such luck.
Other than that we
1) wandered around Chelsea,
2) and Central Park (where we saw Gary Sinise filming a show we’ll never see because we don’t watch TV)
3) plus the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where you can clearly see a Nine Patch on the floor
4) and the Museum of Modern Art, where we were not allowed to photograph the coolest thing there (by Richard Serra)
5) We’re also pretty certain we saw Alec Baldwin coming out of a bank near Rockefeller Square. I think celebrity sightings must be fairly common in NYC. I was way happier to see the anonymous woman who helped us when we got lost on the subway…
And a stop at Amy’s Bread for an A-recommended cupcake. She’s right.
