Juxtaposition

Well it sure is cold and miserable here at the moment. Today I was at home and tried to do some quilting. The cats too , thought it would be a great idea to do some quilting. Both of the sweet creatures curled up and undertook to do a six hour cuddle and being a silly softy I didn't have the heart to shove them off. I just stuck to the corner that I had access to and enjoyed quilting there. The quilting is coming along well. Hopefully soon I will be able to have finished pictures.

Here is another bit of the study. The word  juxtaposition comes to mind as nothing in this picture actually relates and yet is a microcosm of what me and my family likes. I find it interesting that although an outsider will see stuff, the people who live with the objects will actually see the history that each item reflects. The items on the study cupboard remind me of all the people who gave me gifts. Of the shopping trips to buy other parts of the items and the years that the items have witnessed in my life.
Well that is about it on this nippy evening.

Have a good one

 

Study stuff

I had to come home to deal with the telephone people so whilst waiting for them I took a few pictures of some of the fun stuff hanging in our study.  

This is a Turkish clock given to me by Melissa, I think it is way cool..

Then we have the piggies, I found this dish towel about 20 years ago and it spoke to me on individuality et al. so I had it framed 

The castle and dragon I had seen for about 10 years before I decided to stitch it.

The next are Chinese dragons that I gave Manie for his birthday, seeing as we all like dragons and love Chinese work.

The next dragon was an add on to one of manie’s games (Skyrim) but I thought it was cute enough to lurk in one of our corners,

This dragon was given to me by my sister, way artsy

Well that is a tour of some of the stuff

Have a good one

Making a square into a triangle

This is the stencil that I am currently using for the inside squares on my Irish chain. I like it cos it has cute hearts on the inside of it. The only problem now is the along the outside edge of my quilt I have made the various stripes end off in pointed bits so in between each of these pointy bits are triangles. I could have just crosshatched the bits,but, then it would have lost it's interestingness. So what I am going to try to do is take this square stencil and draw it with many more points so that it fills up the triangle. Well hopefully I get to it this weekend which would mean that I have finished off making little blocks all up and down the quilt.

Have a good one

View from the work place

I took this picture from the pause area at work where I sit and phone my husband. How depressing. This is of course just one view and taken at a specific angle as I thought it would make an interesting visual, if I had wanted to I could have twisted the phone about 10 degrees and taken a picture of a palm tree. It is the same as the story of the view of an elephant seen by a blind person, depending where you focus the place you are can look very different. I suppose that is true for the whole of life...how deep.

My work place is actually not that bad seeing as when I look out of the window at my desk, I look across at a golf course. The only problem is that the blinds need to be drawn or I cannot see my computer screen due to the glare, but, I know it is there when I need to look.

The last picture is what my husband looks at from his office. These ducks are living on the 9th floor of an office block. I think they are adorable.

Have a good one

Back to reality...

So that is Easter and a fun 6 days off work over and done with. I finished filling in the square of the Irish quilt and now I am squaring off the stripes. I hit the boredom level of the quilting process where it is more of a pain than a pleasure to do. I can see why quilters have many projects started and few finished. I think also doing all of this stuff by hand slows it down to such a level as to make the highs not be so instant, unfortunately the lows can take just as long. The actual problem is as old Chinese saying: “Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it."

Well my wish is to spend every day just being creative and quilting etc etc, but the reality is that when that is all you are doing, the little niggardly whiny worm creeps out and gets bored. So now sitting at work and writing this blog instead of writing a specification, I am thinking with great anticipation of the moment this afternoon when I pick up my quilt again and start quilting.
This is a good thing to ponder over.

Have a good one