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March 27, 2006

Monday's Little Tiny Nuggets

It's taken me nearly an hour to post, and because of an gangly pinky fingernail I just deleted everything I've written. Fucking Windows keyboard.

  • I rallied! By Saturday night I convinced myself that alcohol would destroy the germs in my body. I drank wine at the hotel with my friends, and then a little more at dinner. Just to be on the safe side, I indulged in some vodka-based goodness. While it didn't destory the germs, I sure didn't care as much about them by the end of the night.
  • The wine and vodka also didn't create a prophylactic barrier between my internal germs and the rest of my family. Hence, we all have The Snot.
  • I slept a lot on Sunday, to no one's surprise.
  • After making a crazy amount of progress on boobie scarf #3 this weekend, I've decided to spend a little time quilting. You might recall The Great Quilting Frenzy of 2005, which was all Allison's fault. During the frenzy, I bought enough clearanced cotton fabric with pretty little flowers to make enough quilts to cozy up asmall, chilly commune. Approximately 83 hours into the frenzy, I lost interest and all my fabric has collecting dust in my back room. Between loveliness located in the new Crate & Barrel catalogue, and my strong desire to not be that person, who develops a sudden interest in an activity, buys a heap of crap to participate in new interest, and then spends the rest of her life hurdling the boxes of dust-collecting crap because she lost interest in said activiy in less than a week, I decided to drag out my 947-year-old sewing machine during Snotty McSnotsalot's naptime. Which is all well and good, except I'm still not done cutting squares. I think instead of quilting, cutting fabric in neat little squares, using the same tattered piece of a Newcastle Brown Ale case that Allison gave me as a template those many months ago is going to be my new hobby. It's fun. Want some squares?
  • Boy howdy, I do enjoy the pungent tang of toasted cumin.
  • One of the local suburbs is voting on whether to allow a church to build a 99-foot cross. Why 99 feet? Because 100 would be tacky.

Posted by Robin at March 27, 2006 05:15 PM

Comments

Oh.. yeah.. the fabric....I'm glad I'm not the only one who loses steam. I finally moved all that Freecycle fabric into a plastic tote box. It's gathering dust in my basement.
Squares are great, and you can have Clara Jane choose which blocks go next to eachother. Then, set them aside for another 6 months.
We'll quilt this summer! I have to sew for Gypsy Caravan and the Rock and Roll Craft Show!

Posted by: all at March 27, 2006 08:35 PM

I started cutting squares last week and thought the same thing might happen - just lots and lots of squares. I even thought about cutting two quilts' worth. But, I pushed through and now have rows. Rows that I'm vaguely terrified to sew into an actual quilt top. Because then, you know, I'd have to figure out how to attach it to the batting & the backing and the edging.

Posted by: jess at March 28, 2006 12:52 AM

I'd be really good at the fabric cutting part as long as you didn't make me sew it all together. I couldn't thread a sewing machine if you held a gun to my head.

Posted by: Dixie at March 28, 2006 04:58 PM

Is it just this time of year? I'm feeling the urge to be crafty myself. Artsy-crafty, that is. I'm feeling the urge but not doing much about it, unless you consider "assembling goody bags for a 3-year-old's party" crafty.

So sorry about the snot. But I do think alcohol, and lots of it, is the correct approach.

Posted by: Lisa (Blah Blah) at March 28, 2006 05:21 PM

Jess, I blame you for my quilting spree, too. I had pretty much forgotten about my supplies until I saw your quilt photos last week.

Allison, one of these days we need to get together and do something about all these squares.

Posted by: Poppy at March 28, 2006 08:37 PM

The Crate and Barrel spring catalog is pure evil with all of its temptations.

Posted by: Nancy at March 29, 2006 05:35 PM