How my carpal tunnel began - alternately titled, I've hated the color rose ever since
I'm still scanning photos - lots of memories this past couple days. Not all of them, as you can see, good ones.
My dear blog readers - meet Rose. Rose and I had a falling out about 16 years ago.
The handwork, I can honestly say, I enjoyed. Unfortunately - I got sick of the color before I was done. Sick sick sick. I hate the color rose, makes me gag.
But English paper piecing, the technique used here, is something I could really sink my time into. I love it. In fact, once I dumped this piece into the overflowing coffin of unfinished projects - I began another one, diamond shaped with multi-mixy-matchy fabrics. That one, uh, is currently in the same box, less done than this one. Remind me to show you sometime.
I think what really got to me, besides the color, the tightening of my fingers, and the pain in my wrist - was the next step. On the grid pattern that I had drawn up for this work, I planned a border about 6 hexagons deep that would go all the way around what is already shown here. The border was a lot of solid (blech/gag) rose with some flowers patterned in and then some green hexagons for leaves and it was all rather fine, in an early 90's kind of way.
Then, on a slow day in January - I counted the hexagons left to do. You know, the funny thing about circles when they get bigger - they take more hexagons to complete. The number was staggering. Like a lot. Thousands kind of a lot. So high, in fact, that it killed the project, dead on the spot.
I keep thinking I should rip off the beginning of that border tho and just call it a lap quilt. Or something. I invested so many hours into it already.
The year on this, by the way, was 1990 - 92 - ish. I worked on it a lot during my caregiving and nanny years, thinking it would be a quilt completed before I got married. It wasn't - we used sleeping bags instead.
And they worked.
Speaking of married - Sara - in the middle - reminded me of this photo not too long ago, so when I came upon it in the 1991 files - I had to include it in my scanning process. I'm on the left - a little ring happy, Sara in the middle and Deanna on the right.
My dear blog readers - meet Rose. Rose and I had a falling out about 16 years ago.
The handwork, I can honestly say, I enjoyed. Unfortunately - I got sick of the color before I was done. Sick sick sick. I hate the color rose, makes me gag.
But English paper piecing, the technique used here, is something I could really sink my time into. I love it. In fact, once I dumped this piece into the overflowing coffin of unfinished projects - I began another one, diamond shaped with multi-mixy-matchy fabrics. That one, uh, is currently in the same box, less done than this one. Remind me to show you sometime.
I think what really got to me, besides the color, the tightening of my fingers, and the pain in my wrist - was the next step. On the grid pattern that I had drawn up for this work, I planned a border about 6 hexagons deep that would go all the way around what is already shown here. The border was a lot of solid (blech/gag) rose with some flowers patterned in and then some green hexagons for leaves and it was all rather fine, in an early 90's kind of way.
Then, on a slow day in January - I counted the hexagons left to do. You know, the funny thing about circles when they get bigger - they take more hexagons to complete. The number was staggering. Like a lot. Thousands kind of a lot. So high, in fact, that it killed the project, dead on the spot.
I keep thinking I should rip off the beginning of that border tho and just call it a lap quilt. Or something. I invested so many hours into it already.
The year on this, by the way, was 1990 - 92 - ish. I worked on it a lot during my caregiving and nanny years, thinking it would be a quilt completed before I got married. It wasn't - we used sleeping bags instead.
And they worked.
Speaking of married - Sara - in the middle - reminded me of this photo not too long ago, so when I came upon it in the 1991 files - I had to include it in my scanning process. I'm on the left - a little ring happy, Sara in the middle and Deanna on the right.
I flitted myself off to Finland for a year just weeks after this photo was taken and missed both of their weddings - and didn't get married myself until September of 92 - a 14 month engagement (Pa wasn't letting me go off to Finland without a ring, is about what it amounted to) hah.
My run-on sentences are getting out of hand - time for me to get some sleep
Tomorrow I'll share a memory from my Harley days. ;)
be good
My run-on sentences are getting out of hand - time for me to get some sleep
Tomorrow I'll share a memory from my Harley days. ;)
be good
that quilt is GORGEOUS! since you don't like the color so well, have you thought about introducing it to a bottle of RIT dye in a color you like? you could easily use red, or you new favorite color, ORANGE, and have a very trendy looking quilt again.
Posted by: tania | November 08, 2008 at 09:16 AM
Oh, Yikes! I have that picture here somewhere too. And we haven't changed a bit, have we??
Posted by: Sara K | November 09, 2008 at 09:26 PM