san quentin tarantino
I am feeling like: okay!
Like a really drunk person (maybe in a tutu and army boots and smeared mascara) trying to get up the willpower and the ability to walk straight to climb many, many stairs.
Okay!
I can do this!
Yesterday I got so excited about being creative and having good ideas that I couldn't sleep and instead got out the journal and wrote and drew and then could barely get up this morning. ROCK! I'm going to be creative, and celebrate (you know, existence and stuff), and be happy!
I want to make:
* a double wedding ring mini-quilt for my friends' wedding in March
* legwarmers - my own pattern - going to have to be on double-pointed needles because hell if I'm going to spend $15 on a 12" circular (Addi Turbos) set that I'll use exactly twice, once for each leg, or spend $3 on whale jawbone.
* a mini-quilt for my mom with this style of bright-on-black fabrics that she's admired and will not match a single room in the house, including hallways, the laundry room, or closets.
* a bunch of other stuff I can't think of right now.
But, double wedding rings are hard. Really hard. And I don't really know what paper piecing is, though I've pretended to on many occasions, and jeez, will you look at the points on this thing? AND the curves? And I want me to strip piece the what in the what now? No, seriously, what?
But it's a double wedding ring quilt. For weddings.
So I'm feeling like I'll be the drunk girl desperately trying to keep her shit together despite the fact that she's sewn the damn thing 8 times now and yet the point is still rhomboid rather than pointy but if I just try hard enough to get it right I have to. It must be possible to get it right.
I can cop out on the double wedding ring thing, which might not look great on a not-full-sized quilt anyway, and instead do a variation on the theme of the engagement ring, which they designed together (and is not all diamond-y but is rather circles and birthstones). I could get away with applique and it might be more personal and definitely there is a smaller percent chance that I'll have to re-sew more than three times.
But it always ends up being 10 - every day this happens - and then sleep must be planned for and then tomorrow, lunch and work and everything.
Like a really drunk person (maybe in a tutu and army boots and smeared mascara) trying to get up the willpower and the ability to walk straight to climb many, many stairs.
Okay!
I can do this!
Yesterday I got so excited about being creative and having good ideas that I couldn't sleep and instead got out the journal and wrote and drew and then could barely get up this morning. ROCK! I'm going to be creative, and celebrate (you know, existence and stuff), and be happy!
I want to make:
* a double wedding ring mini-quilt for my friends' wedding in March
* legwarmers - my own pattern - going to have to be on double-pointed needles because hell if I'm going to spend $15 on a 12" circular (Addi Turbos) set that I'll use exactly twice, once for each leg, or spend $3 on whale jawbone.
* a mini-quilt for my mom with this style of bright-on-black fabrics that she's admired and will not match a single room in the house, including hallways, the laundry room, or closets.
* a bunch of other stuff I can't think of right now.
But, double wedding rings are hard. Really hard. And I don't really know what paper piecing is, though I've pretended to on many occasions, and jeez, will you look at the points on this thing? AND the curves? And I want me to strip piece the what in the what now? No, seriously, what?
But it's a double wedding ring quilt. For weddings.
So I'm feeling like I'll be the drunk girl desperately trying to keep her shit together despite the fact that she's sewn the damn thing 8 times now and yet the point is still rhomboid rather than pointy but if I just try hard enough to get it right I have to. It must be possible to get it right.
I can cop out on the double wedding ring thing, which might not look great on a not-full-sized quilt anyway, and instead do a variation on the theme of the engagement ring, which they designed together (and is not all diamond-y but is rather circles and birthstones). I could get away with applique and it might be more personal and definitely there is a smaller percent chance that I'll have to re-sew more than three times.
But it always ends up being 10 - every day this happens - and then sleep must be planned for and then tomorrow, lunch and work and everything.
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