just maryse

FUCK YEAH!

i "met" chawne via flickr a couple of years back.  i was initially attracted to her crafty photos. she's very prolific and you'll see, very talented and thoughtful and inspiring. then one day she posted a photo of the college campus where she is a professor and although i hadn't been to my alma mater in almost 10 years, i recognized the scene right away and wrote her to confirm.  and we've been crafty buddies ever since. 

she's lovely and soft-spoken in person.  but what you don't notice when you meet her is what a potty mouth she is. 

so when she asked me to contribute to a quilt that she was putting together, i said "fuck yeah!" 

thing is, i'm not much of a quilter. i still haven't finished the little quilt i started almost 2 years ago. so i took a piece of linen (from an old pair of pants so it was nice and soft) and did a little cross stitching.

i used some of that waste canvas stuff which served as a guide for cross stitching. i can tell you that it was a fucking pain in the ass.  heh.

and then i just let the f-bomb fly.

 

 

i really like the word "fuckwit."

Quilty Progress

just thought i'd give a little update.  i finished all of my squares and sewed them up. 

(here are the squares just before sewing)

BBK supervised the placement.

and then i took some of my leftover scraps and played around with the log cabin motif.  I think i'll use these as part of the quilt back. 

and that's it for now. 

I'm Quilting!

for as long as i can remember, i've been obsessed with color.  any kind of color.  in any sort of medium.  as a small child, my most prized possession was my box of crayons and i remember the day i got my first set of magic markers.  when i got older, i was obsessed with  those giant make-up palettes (i still kind of am, i just don't buy them anymore).  i hoard yarn and fiber because i can't not buy one more color.  and the real reason why i started playing around with cross stitch? those tiny, colorful skeins of embroidery thread.  so you know it was just a matter of time before i started looking at fabric.

i resisted for a long time.  sewing, unlike my other hobbies, requires a table, or two.  and a more permanent set-up.  which i don't really have.  well not really unless i'm willing to have j give me a hard time about the mess on the dining and kitchen tables (i guess that as long as i have a circular saw, a bag of cement and other masonry equipment under the kitchen table, he really can't complain too much). 

but finally i broke.  i reacquainted myself with my machine (a 25 year old singer that i've used maybe a dozen times).  i spent a small fortune at joann's on rotary cutters, rulers and mats, and i practiced first by making a few 9-patches. 

my first project is a little string quilt (see this tutorial).

my squares are done.  now i've got to do something with them.