Amazing. A tornado in the Pacific Northwest is not very common. But today, the conditions were right. Unfortunately, it destroyed the Vancouver Lake Rowing Club. No one was hurt. Crazy weather.
weekly collage wk02-08
"Transition" was an excellent theme for this first month of the year. I did have to remind myself that the weekly collages need to be more abstract because I'm going to use them later in other works. The only constraints I have are work fast and somehow tie it to the previous week. I started with the orange strip of fabric because it echoed the orange in the central piece of fabric of wk01. I also wanted to use only fabric out of my scrap box.
I need to transition the scrap box into something more useful. It's become like a junk drawer that never gets cleaned out. There has got to be a better way. I've been thinking that I should go through the box, pull out the ugly fabric, and combine pieces (if necessary) to get twelve inch squares to be used for the backs of weeklies and other small quilts. Depending on how much that reduces the pile, then sort by color and keep with the rest of the fabric in a smaller container... grumble, would that mean ten small containers instead of one large tub?
How does everyone else deal with this? Is there a size limited? - toss everything under 3-square inches? (I found a vibrant blue in the box that was 1"x2" - just lovely... it went back in the box!)
Living consciously...
Before I even did my reading today I was feeling a sense of pride. I'm ten days into this new year and I'm doing the things I said I was going to do. In Living Consciously, Hendricks emphasized (once again) to speak your feelings. The practice for the day was to "try saying how you feel today." I'll have to admit I've been getting a little frustrated by the reading and then today I decided that there must be a lot of people out there who keep a lot of secrets and don't express their feelings! He further suggests that we walk around believing that life is hard but once we accept an alternative: with focused work living and loving consciously is pure, exuberant fun! So, without secrets, we should learn to express our feelings then we can begin to celebrate life with self-pride, joy and laughter. Ha! I'm closer that I thought!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tornado? what the...
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I don't know anyone who doesn't struggle with scraps, except true scrap quilters who seem to make tiny crumb blocks constantly to include all their "bits". I go through my bin irregularly cutting stuff into lengths for string quilt work. Lately I've been sorting out the really really tiny stuff and rolling it with fabric glue into button/beads, so nothing qualifies as too small :-( I think that was a bad decision that'll need to be revistied int he coming days!
I keep the smallest of scraps in a bucket under my table that eventually goes for stuffing dog beds. Nothing is thrown out at my house. Even scraps represent money spent so I figure I should get the best use of it all!
I keep all my scraps!! You never know - "one day I might need it".
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