Daily Archives: March 30, 2010

Quilting and other endeavors

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Saturday was our library brunch, it’s a fun fundraising event for the Friends of the Library.  Mom and I have decorated tables at almost all of them, except maybe for the first year or 2, when we were new to town.  It’s not a competition, but I’m pretty sure we “win” best table every year.  Of course, all of the other tables are very pretty or cute or clever, but ours is the only one with a quilt on it.  Most years I actually make a special quilt, but we just couldn’t manage that this year.  Luckily, I had the perfect quilt already made — and oddly, we’d never done a Christmas theme before.  (Two years ago we did a snack table)

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All of the ornaments are either reindeer or angels, to go with the Angel Baby and Reindeer in the fabric of the quilt.  The bows on the glasses were my idea.  Mom wasn’t so sure, and had told me not to put them on, she was worried it would be too much, but she relented at the last minute, and frankly, we thought they ended up being the exactly perfect icing on the cake.

In other news, I’ve had the IQ working hard while I’ve been messing around with other stuff:

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I debated about custom quilting this one, with borders and blocks and fancy-schmancy, but it’s a biggie (114 by 114), and I ended up deciding that an edge to edge design done by IQ would be just as beautiful and about 3 months faster.   I used a silk batting in it, I’ll report back after I sleep under it and also after it gets washed.

OK, fine.  Just as soon as I pulled it off the frame on Sunday, I took it upstairs and I took a nap underneath it.  And slept for about 2 hours, so that was a pretty good test.  But I’ll report back on a full night’s sleep.

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This quilt is a Round Robin that I made (well, I made the center adn put on the outer borders), hmmm.  6? 7? years ago?  It’s been awhile.  I’ve never been really crazy about it, partly because even though I love that floral, it’s very peach, and the colors just don’t go with anything (not that things have to MATCH around here).  It just didn’t quite turn out to be ME.

This one got done with another edge to edge design, and is going to be on its way to Alycia for a QOV.  Yes, it’s not patriotic, yes it’s very girly, but:  there are women warriors, too, and I think they deserve something pretty.

Now that we’ve got the pretty out of the way, prepare yourself for some 10 year old boy artwork.

Are you ready?

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That one is Joe’s mug.  Will’s Pac-man mug is a little less…in your face…

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Aren’t you glad I warned you, though?

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I just spent the last 20 minutes playing with the camera on my iMac.  Yeah, even this photo is pretty pathetic, the lighting in here is goofy at the moment, but I’m going with it, because when I try to recreate with different lighting, I can’t seem to get it any better looking than this.

So yeah. This is what I look like right now after getting my hair cut and actually wearing makeup (and earrings and I actually stuck lipgloss on right before playing with my camera.)

I thought about using this one as my new avatar, I spend a lot of time giving people (and by people, I mean my husband and 10 year old boys) the evil eye over the top of my glasses.

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The weird part about taking the photos was trying to actually look in the right direction at just the right time.  I got rid of ALL of the doozies.  There were lots.

My sister is probably looking at these photos gloating because her hair is still so much blonder than mine.  I tell ya, my hair is a lot blonder in my mirror.  And in my mind’s eye.

Next time, I’m going to get my hair colored, and I’m going to have her streak it with pink.  Or red.  Or maybe make it all black except for one section which we’ll die hot pink.

Or….not.

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