Food for Thought p17
“…if you are anything like me you never have everything that’s listed in the recipe but you’re so impatient to start that very minute you decide to go ahead and do it anyway.”
The article is about finding inspiration in Thr3fold and their hopes for the mag. It is basically a mini-ad where Linda compares finding inspiration in cooking to finding inspiration in quiltmaking.
I like it that she used the word impatient rather than excited or some other word. I think it describes the way I feel about starting a new project exactly.
My first thought after reading the article was: is Linda in my head?
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Twisted Knits p18-21
Remember the fiber cupcakes from the fair? Friend Claudia, with whom I had lunch on Wednesday, is knitting some like them and I am delirious over them. Hers sound so gorgeous. Knitting is something that I have had to give up 🙁 because of my hands, but I long to make 15 or 20 of these cupcakes to decorate and give as gifts and amuse (imagine them on a tray in the living room or dining room!). I long to try out the fabulous yarns available and decorate them with beads just to get a little taste of knitting and beading.
LLC must have sensed my lust for yarn, because they give the pattern and tips for this easy twisted scarf. One tip is to make the tassels first, so you don’t have to worry about running out of tassel yarn. What a great idea! I wonder how this could be translated to quiltmaking? Make the border first?
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Diary of a Quilt p22-25
Diaries are nice because they get you into the head of the writer, which is a bit of self serving comment as I am writing a blog here! I am a journal junkie. I love reading people’s journals (with permission!), because of the … rawness, though I am not sure if that is the right word. Still journals, diaries and blogs are all about process, not about product. Sometimes exhaustively so. This article is, I assume, a much edited, fairly sanitized version of Catherine’s journal of her quiltmaking process. I would expect nothing less from a publication. In a way, it is too edited. I would have liked a bit more detail, but the editing doesn’t detract from the description of the process. It also accurately depicts, without whining, the frenzied feeling of having quilt deadlines to meet while trying to enjoy part of the process that she finds fun.
This is the fine line that I desperately try to avoid; wanting recognition via quilt shows and events/exhibits while trying not to imbue quiltmaking with the hated aspects of a job.
The quilt that is the center of the article is one of seals (or maybe sea otters – I have no idea what the difference is and only a passing interest) and it is wonderful. There is such a sense of peace in the quilt when I look at it. She talks about missing her seals and a Sedna quilt, which I haven’t seen and wasn’t able to find on the web. I hope it is on the CD, but it is a reference I would have liked to have seen as a picture in the article.
This brings up a tangential point about multimedia journals. What exactly does that mean? Are they truly multimedia if I can’t click on a link like “Sedna” in the actual text of the print journal and be taken to the image or description on my cell phone or PDA or a screen that is projected form my glasses and pops up in front of my face? Or is it just multimedia because they include a CD? What about weblinks in magazines? If QNM includes a URL, does that make it a multimedia magazine? I guess this is a new frontier.
Anyway, the seals look playful and happy. The brown part on the right of the quilt is not something I would have thought to add, but it really adds to the quilt. It could be cliffs or an undersea ridge. I am not sure how I feel about the quilting. There is a delicacy about the quilt that the quilting doesn’t fit with. However, it does give the idea of swirling water. The shell (abalone?) buttons that she used for the bubbles are great. They add a little texture and shine to the quilt without overpowering it.
I liked the pictures of painting the faces. Until I looked carefully at the detail of one face I didn’t realize they were painted. I though that the faces had been fussy cut out of some hand dyed fabric to take advantage of the coloring. Looking at the whole quilt (not the detail) more closely, I can see the delicacy in the coloration that certainly cannot be achieved with a dye process (that I know of – being such an expert on dyeing and all NOT) JulieZS will have to weigh in here and set me straight.
Big annoyance: the article basically stops in the middle and tells me to go to the CD to see the rest. I guess they are forcing me to look at the CD on their timeframe rather than my own, which leads me to believe that they want the CD to be considered an integral part of the package. Not necessarily a bad thing. They are teaching me in more ways than one.
