Done and done

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Mary Beth Frezon

OK, I didn’t really pray to the photo-gods, but I was very excited to pick up the two rolls of slides today and see – yes! images of quilt! First one too light. Second one, quite nice. Detail, very nice. Next roll, darker – fabulous! Details, even better. All good.

Packaged them all up, went back to work, finished the paperwork and put it all in the shipping envelope. Called to double make sure that pickup was arranged – ooops, no pickup on record but now it’s all set! And voila – picked up and out of my hands. I can do no more.

So I’m finishing my last few postcards. Just sewing is actually fun!

All this stressing and pushing to get this quilt done and entry done and out – certainly not part of the fun. But lately I’ve missed a lot of show opportunities and I just decided I wasn’t going to miss this one, pipe-dream as it might be. The best part of it all is – I really like this quilt a lot. It’s different from my past work but an easy off shoot of what went before. It taught me a few things about lines and what non-precision gets you. And now….

On to the next!

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The Joy of Living in the Country

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Mary Beth Frezon

hens they come a visiting

You just never know who’ll be coming up your walk when you look out in the morning… These are my neighbor’s new acquisition some japanese variety, but aka food for neighborhood foxes. It was nice to see them sunning themselves on my marble walkway.

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Down to the wire…

Posted on September 15, 2006 by Mary Beth Frezon

detail of current quilt

OK chilluns – pray to the camera deities that my slides come out tomorrow! That was tonight’s project, photog to film and digital. Now to spend a bit of time with the entry form. Guess that means that title MUST be chosen.

Sometimes I have a working title but somewhere towards the end the real title is – I can only say it – revealed to me. Unfortunately, sometimes not. This is the latter time.

Go with the working title? Sleep one more night on it. Actually, I have at most another couple days. Eeeks!

This quote was just in my sidebar – love it:

Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature! For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow. — Francisco de Goya

Update – got up bright and early this morning and headed off to the slide developer, plenty of time, right on schedule, time to reshoot if necessary. Get there – they don’t “do” slides anymore! eeeks! They gave me the name of someone who did but I didn’t have time to get there before work. Left work early and dropped them off, but that means no reshooting time available. I can still make my deadline, but that’s a little closer than I needed to be.

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In search of a title….

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Mary Beth Frezon

May I say a few words about my new quilt that’s almost done (hurry! hurry!)

First off – I really like the colors – earthy, warm greens and browns balanced with deep cool blues. I like the subtle glittery silk strips. I like the faintly window-like design.

I gave up worrying about making things perfectly straight. It’s impossible (at least for me) to sew pieces that are so small and make them perfectly straight, especially after all the quilting. Get over it if it bothers you.

But what I really like about it is that when it was just laid out, it looked not so concrete – not SO defined. A little sketchy. And when I decided on the quilting, I gave up on making beautiful straight or curvy lines and just went whereever I had to in order to get around. This means I have many places with more than one line of stitching. Took some getting over everything I’ve ever done, but it went right along.

And you know, I think it increases the sort of drawn look of it all. It’s looking to me like a quilt I’d draw. The stitches shine with their own outlining light.

I have to hurry up and come up with a title for this baby.  My working title was “brush” because it makes me think of all the time I spend admiring the light coming through woods, only to realize that I’m ignoring all the brush that’s between me and the light.  It’s invisible as you drive down the road, looking at the trees and the light.  I’m thinking that’s a good thing, but every once in awhile you should look at all that brush too.

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This ‘n’ That

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Mary Beth Frezon

I did sew down the first side of facing, so I can get the sleeve sewn on enough to make it usable. Next up – finishing the dangling threads. Then – slides! All good. Thank goodness for fast developing! Now, sew faster!
New ipods announced today… ’nuff said about that.

I had delicious bruschetta for dinner tonight – my own ciabatta, cheese, sliced fresh tomatoes… mmmmmmm.

Another chilly night tonight – at this rate I’ll be forced to make green tomato mincemeat! Interesting, but the tomato munching slugs only seem to like red tomatoes. What’s up with that? And in other interesting stuff, as I was doing major blackberry pruning, I had a nice handful of berries as my thank you from the berry patch. Thank you thorny things! I found a dog rose bush that, no kidding, has a 4 or 5 inch trunk. Yes trunk! I actually used the chain saw to do a bit of pruning there although the trunk is still intact.

I have one nice little butternut squash coming along…

I need to either make cookies or get some. Serious cookie jonesing going on here. I settled for a …. um… sample of nutella. Had to make sure it was still good now didn’t I? It was still good.

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