I thought I had posted these – part of an all too brief whirl with cleaning out stuff in June. But since I hadn’t – meet my newly organized cookbooks and quilt/art/other books:
There were more books put into the quilt/art/other bookshelf and some of the poetry and literature shelves were tidied up as well.
the ghosts of snow rise
thin cold pale from the March fields
but cling to the earth
First off thanks to Sandra D for the reference to Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour blog with this great quote:
The lesson has never really left me: the more you work, the better you work, and the less you yearn for lunch.
Recently Naomi suggested Matt Kish’s blog and that has been fun to go back through too.
One of the best parts of going to new-to-me blogs is that you get to browse someone else’s blogroll and see altogether new things. Score! Like Betsy Learner’s eponymous blog which a short way down the page had this gem
How do you read the kinds of books you’re trying to write: competitively? As a student? A voyeur? A spy in the house of love?
Aren’t we all so guilty of this: Looking at something in our own medium and glossing over the piece itself for the how-to, gleaning, minutiae criticizing, prying bits of information out of it and ignoring the non-making person standing nearby blown away by the piece itself? Yes we are. You can deny it but we all do it LOL.
Anyway nice to have some nice reads and it’s always fun to browse outside of quilting – everyone deals with the same problems no matter what they’re doing and it’s good to hear other ideas.
To the dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, in the spirit of the process pledge and all, I can tell you that what comes next with the pile of green strips is some experimentation. I made one test square (discuss amongst yourselves how primitive and throwback I am seeing that I am on the grid so to speak. How gauche, omg how whatever…) and found I liked it but needs a little work to get it smaller if possible and less bulky by using some other means of sewing it together.
So what’s a make-many-squares-sorta-gal to do? Make some more squares on the same theme, using a couple different construction approaches and see how it goes. How hard/easy is it to do vs does it approach the look I’m going for. And, in fact, if the blocks are all together, does it create the overall effect I’m looking for.
There’s that motto that Pat and I always referred to: Fast isn’t always easy. Easy isn’t necessarily fast. Smaller isn’t easy or fast. Words to live by my friends. Have to strike the balance between what you’re willing to do and what you’re trying to get to.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
