Make It Do


1. Lucille, 2. Quilting Arts Gifts 2010 - 2011 - cover 3. Make-Do - view 1, 4. Argyle Make-Do, 5. Hep Cat, 6. Make-Do - view 2, 7. Make It Do 8. Purple Bird, 9. Hep Cat - reverse, 10. Big Dots Make-Do - view 2, 11. Lucille - detail, 12. Quilting Arts Gifts 2010 - 2011 - article 13. Big Dots Make-Do - view 1

 
I love getting mail. Even though it is so often filled with bills and advertisements, I still approach the mailbox with anticipation - always believing that today is the day I'll get something good. And today I was rewarded with something really special! It's the 2010-2011 edition of Quilting Arts Gifts and I'm so excited because my Make-do Pincushions article is in it! They did such a beautiful job of photographing it and the layout is fabulous. Thank You, Pokey Bolton and Pippa Eccles!

I also posted about my make-do pincushions HERE, if you'd like to know a little bit more.


 

Beginner's Delight

   
 
Making bracelets for someone special.  Thinking about how much more easily the textiles take shape in my hands, how I fret over the jeweler's bench, so worried I will not do it "right." But the metals and the stones seduce me. I can't resist them. And when I do complete a piece, I feel such satisfaction that I got it to look like my dream of how it would look. There is that pleasure in being a "beginner" again, and succeeding. :-)

   
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Feeling a Little Lost

I have been fooling around with weaving strips of cloth, a la Jude Hill and Heike Gerbig.  And I'm hoping to take Jude's upcoming Cloth to Cloth 2 class, unless I get locked out. So this may be a bit of subconscience preparation for that.

I'm not at all sure what I'm doing with the stitching on this piece. I started out thinking I wanted all the stitches to be in the white-cream-taupe range. Lately I've thought maybe it would be interesting to add some very pale pink and icy blue. And every time I look at it, I think about how I actually really like the big, red basting stitches!

I haven't worked on it much yet and some of what little I've done is no more. For example, I've done some stitching and then ripped it all out - twice! This is because I am  having a hard time choosing the right thread weight. The piece sits in the family room - I like to sew while watching TV, so I don't feel like I'm wasting my time.  I keep whatever I'm working on and all the associated supplies on a nice big bread board which sits on my lap and becomes my work table.


I'll be glad when I finally get cracking and do some meaningful work on this little baby. Right at the moment, it seems so lost.