Learning Curve

You have a lot on your plate today, especially if you end up wasting too much time this morning. But your responsibilities will be more demanding and your schedule less forgiving as the afternoon unfolds. Nevertheless, avoid getting so caught up in your own agenda that you won't be able to see what's right in front of you. Remaining flexible enables you to respond positively to something quite unexpected.

I'll say. My BFF Laurie came to the studio today to teach me about sergers. My 56 pages of print-out were like reading Sanskrit until she translated for me and went zip zip zip and got the thing purring like a cat even after sitting untouched for eleven years now. Now I know a looper from a needle. The learning curve is about 45 degrees uphill in the south Florida heat, not easy for old people. In exchange I taught her about needle-turned applique- tell me who got the better of that deal! So now I have to stay here until I run the darn thing unaided by additional human input. I'm scared! But I have to do it. I'm hoping if they come to take me away on Saturday they will let me bring a few things along, like maybe the serger. I will need something to do because all reports seem to lean on the fact that it's damn boring in the End Times.

Meanwhile back at Ganymede, I managed to cut out a blouse from a sequined skirt, figuring practically that my sequined skirt days are behind me, no intended puns. SO now I'll have another new blouse for fancy occasions with cool bronze sequins and beads around the bottom. *IF the serger will help me. (Didja get the 'big if'?)

In showing Laurie the applique, I pulled out an old quilt top I've been working on like forever, it's a found pink and red Irish chain, completely hand sewn that I had been adding applique chunks of Grandmother's Flower Garden and Dresden Plates onto. There are also other items sewn on that were designed to use up my pile of old blocks and ratty tops. Also I had a 12" stack of hand cut circles from fabrics from the twenties and thirties I found at a flea market so I am appliqueing them on too. But all those years ago I bit off more than I wanted to chew and abandoned the project. Now I am going to see if I can finish it up and even perhaps get it quilted on somebody's machine because it certainly isn't worth much more work from ANY of us who have contributed efforts over the last whole century. I'm the only one left to finish it- everybody else is long dead by now.

Psst. anybody wanna buy a 'collaborative quilt'? I didn't think so.