I think I've been tagged 4 times now, either for the 7 weird or 8 random things post. So I'm doing it again! But I'm not tagging anybody else.
1. I occasionally fulfill my weird/random posting tags, but I never tag anyone else. If you want to be tagged, you can say I did it.
2. Over the course of about ten years, I made a king size tea towel quilt for our bed, finishing it a little over a year ago. It already needs to be patched, where the dog and kids jump on and off the bed.
I machine sewed it and then had a professional quilt crafter (with a big clean floor and a long arm machine) put it all together for me. I want to know how she got it squared up accurately, because she did. How does one accurately square up an 112 inch square?
3. I collected all of those tea towels from my English Granny's tea towel stash (after she died) and then from ebay, friends, and thrift shops. I like souvenir tea towels.
4. I prefer handsewing to machine sewing. I like the speed of machine sewing, but I hate preparing bobbins, dealing with tension, changing needles, - anything fussily mechanical. I have to do enough fussy mechanical stuff in the metalshops and would prefer simple needle and thread in the house.
5. Now I have this compelling urge to make colorblock bedroom curtains using those sheer colored headscarves that old ladies used to wrap around their hair-dos. I just can't figure out where to find them, for cheap or next to nothing. Goodwill has them, but charges around 1.99 per scarf, as a standard price. That's what they cost new at Walmart. So if you, or someone you know, has a box of old sheer colorful polyester headscarves lying around the house- please contact me. I want them.
6. Yes I know I can buy sheer poly or silk new and dye it, but I don't want to hem miles of edges. If I can do it without hemming, please do contact me and tell me how.
7. I want to handstitch them together with embroidery floss.
8. Oh, did I mention that I enjoy embroidery, but am only now getting back to it, after about a 7-1/2 year break? My granny was a perfectionist embroiderer and could do a consistent cross stitch throughout an entire tablecloth. I like more crazy quilt style. Here's what I'm obsessing over now. 
9. Bonus random/weird thing - I can't seem to do a non obsessive craft.
10. Bonus random/weird thing - I want to start whittling wood.
11. Bonus random/weird thing - I don't enjoy wet crafting processes.
Enough.
love your quilt. no idea about the scarves though - the problem with finding them may be that they're not very sturdy. My mother used them and they would shred pretty regularly.
ReplyDeleteI'm not into the wet stuff either...unless you count painting!
oh love it!!! felting can be wet although haven't done much of that lately...wow your embroidery is beautiful!!! you are amazing! I'm over zealous myself obsessing about the newness of it...soaking up all the details and knowledge i can get...acquiring all the fun gadgets...aka...hoarding...it's all good if it keeps me sane, right? Art Therapy at it's best! Show the whittleing when you make some thing! Jodi
ReplyDeleteYou really can do anything! The good lord just looked down upon you and said 'you shall have it all'!
ReplyDeleteI like to cross stitch but haven't done it in a while either. I should get back to it.
ah...whittling...
ReplyDeletewoods a much more sensible material than, say,! >SOAP< !
Your tea towel quilt is amazing. That embroidery that you are working on looks great too. I want to learn and am teaching myself and my 6 year-0ld daughter. Feel free to throw some wisdom our way.
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