playing with fabric

This is just a very small portion of the fabrics that I brought back from Washington, with the pause in Utah.  I pulled this stack out and can envision them as a quilt all by themselves.  I have to admit that I just keep looking at the fabrics I brought back and wish I had more time at home so I can sit at my sewing machine.  The spinning wheel has taken a backseat this week.

There may not be many more posts this week.  The traveling finally got caught up with me in terms of not finishing many things.  I have many bits in process and more fabric ordered.  After doing more reading about dyeing today, I ordered new fabric to work with.  It is very exciting but it means more waiting.  Just like waiting on the apron dress pattern I ordered.

I also admit to being a bit worried and down.  My best friend's Mom is in Istanbul.  She is okay but world events are just overwhelming.  I might need to take a pause.  A deep breath.  Just a time to be calm.  I have been running to hard.  

Or I could just talk about the little bits.  I will see what I need tomorrow.

trapezoids

When we were at the mountain, I found a quilt store in Bellingham that I liked.  I really liked it.  What I was seeing just felt very creative and I liked their stock.  Now, most of what I bought there is still in Utah but I brought back some scrappy bits.

The store cuts 5 inch squares in multiple different prints.  They package 21 prints together for 42 squares.  It means I could get one of my normal nine squares from it or two not normal.  It would add a difference to my quilts since I really did not pick my fabrics.  But I decided to do something totally different.

I cut trapezoids.

Small trapezoids that I am stitching together.  This may be a center of a quilt.  Or it may be a bit on the back.  Or I may be asked to make it into a quilt for Spikey or Bruce Banner, Koda Bear's soft friends.  But I know I am having fun.  I have messed it up a bit but that is not surprising.  This is the first time I have tried anything like this.

Quilts at my sewing machine.  Lovely times at my wheel.  More time in a tent with tea over a fire this weekend.  Life is good.

the experiment may be failing

I have been working on my picture quilts.  It is a slow process.  But I have noticed a lot of ink coming off as I work with them.  Enough to be very concerned, especially sind I wish them to have the possibilities of being used on a bed and not just a tapestry.

When I had them printed, I had three done.  Today, I threw on into the wash.  The first wash was not pretty.  The picture was still there but all the white was very grey.  Not what I wanted to see.  I slight grey maybe but not that tone.  So I am washing again, using warmer water, and seeing what happens.

I am going to spin and experiment with sewing instead of continuing on working with the quilt.  I may need to rip out all the quilting and take it back a few steps.  I can do this but I may go through a few audio books as I do.  I guess I should be very upset but I am more wanting a solution.  I still really like my idea.  

Oh well. . . There will be chocolate filled cornetti and tea soon.  I have been craving pain au chocolat but like cornetti better so why not!  More camping this weekend.  I will get through.  And I am experimenting with another project at the same time.  I could be accused with too many projects and I could not disagree.

one step closer!

The back for the quilt I am working on is done!  Wahoo!

Today has been doing little things but soon I will start basting.  I am going to spin some because I do need yarn.  There is always more fibre to make more yarn.  Even though I have roving coming to me, I think the grey I showed two days ago is going into sweater.  And I am thinking the other roving I showed, may go into a cardigan that I have been trying to decide what yarn will be the contrast.  Nothing I have spun works with that sweater when I think about it.  I rarely even find anything I like to buy recently.

I find spinning relaxing and I admit to being in a funk.  Miss Koda Bear and the Tall Short Person.  Miss the Pacific Northwest.  My ear is still infected and hurts.  Want to go surfing but there is no surf or when there is surf it is accompanied by thunderstorms.  Nope.  And yes, we are still getting rain and the potential for flooding.

I did take a bit of time and took my Long Rodriguez skateboard out.  It helped.  Concrete surfing is not quite the same, but it helps.  It does mean that I have been watching a few skateboard and surfing videos.  I do have a skateboard in a shopping cart that I am pondering.  I actually found a short board I like.  A little bigger then a Penny (type of skateboard).  But that has more to do with me seeing myself taking it with me traveling.  I keep thinking I need a duffle for a skateboard, helmet, and gloves.  Grandma Sally's house has a good hill for skating!

The thought crossed my mind that  I need to post a sign in the yard that reads:  Drive like your daughter/momma/grandmomma lives here.

makings for a cozy quilt

Today has been an interesting day.  The area has had more rain in a morning then ever recorded for a day.  There are areas that got they monthly rainfall per hour over an eight hour period.  People are complaining about the flooding but it is better then it has been in the past with less water.  There is still damage.  People lost homes.  Lost cars.  People died.  There were rescues.  But we did get through.

I walked to work and home.  I decided that I would take less risk on foot then on my bicycle.  I waited until the lightening lessened to start.  It was not a bad walk and I got to work damp.  Work was not closed but there were very few people who were able to get in.  The rain stopped by the time I started home but I still used my umbrella because I had forgotten my sunglasses.  People were out watching the water rushing through the bayous on my path home.  I just wanted to be home.

Home was about a comforting soup and tea.  Sometimes cozy is needed.  The Tall Short Person asked for a cozy quilt recently.  So while we were out watching very fast motorbikes, I stopped a different fabric shop in a different town which means different buyers.  I have always found the buyers for this shop much edgier which is going make a fun cozy quilt for her.  I know I bought too much but that is how it goes.  It was all her favorite colours!

The yarn is what I spun on the hill watching fast motorbikes.  I had to document it, did I not?

Possibility of three more inches of rain tonight and tomorrow.  It will be mostly okay.