It’s true that many people think I’m talented, creative even. Little do they know that when it comes to floral applique…. let’s just say I’m working on four simple basket blocks. I’m directed to fill each basket with some simple floral fillings. I’m shown examples: roses, bee balm, cockscomb…. what did I end up with? Two things that my husband deemed were prickly pears — I was going for some sort of cactus, so I guess that wasn’t too bad. Although he did say if I put small eyes on them, they’d look like rabbits. Oh dear. My other choice was a very simple folded flower. Tried yo-yos. Nope. These came out looking something like mutant pinks. Oh dear.
oh yeah – whatta way to spend a saturday. I spent the entire frustrating day getting some cgi-sorta forms ready to go for NYQuilts! Yeah. I have to say that Adobe GoLive 6 really rocks. Very stable, some nice fixes from 5 beyond the stability issues. Little things that mean a lot like adding a table row above OR below the one you’ve selected. Doing the forms themselves was really easy. Making them work on tripod stunk out loud. Once I realized the problem it wasn’t so hard, but getting to that point was frustrating. Of course, if I did form stuff more than once a year, it would be ever so much easier.
It’s ten pm now. I’m going to go sew SOMEthing.
Last night I rummaged around in my “big pieces” pile o’ fabric, looking for backing fabrics for the two quilts I’m ready to quilt. (see April 6th entry for other photos of the new quilt and the nine patch.) Years ago fabric used to be 44-45 inches wide. Narrow fabric was 36 inches wide. Now you’re lucky if you get 40 inches of width to work from. Long story short, I did find some fabric and only had to piece one of the backs, in a very simple way. Moral of the story – aiming for smaller quilts? get them in under 40″ in measurement in one direction so the backs are straightforward.
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