In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. Victor Hugo
I want to Hold Your Hand. the Beatles
Overall Daily Crapola, mostly baby stuff today. I am making a baby sweater and brought the sections with me, almost finished except for the front. I brought along a needle to put it together and extra yarn to do the neckband. I'ts very tiny so went together easily until I realized I only have 2 buttons and it calls for three- I mae the band wit buttonholes for two and it's clearly not right SO, I stuffed it all back i it's bag and will go hunting for additional buttons and put a loop on the top edge rather than a real buttonhole. HA! And I was muttering at the directions thinking they were so wrong.
I'm anxious to get back to the studio to start a new baby quilt. The one I finished was met with questionable enthusiasm as I had feared. Friggin' thing is all hand appliqué after a 19th century woodcut circus poster. It started out to be full length, 8' tall, but I burned out before I got to the nose and cut off the bottom half of it before letting it sit for a decade.
Too Scary, they say... Poop, I say.
So it's back to something simple, geometric, machine pieced, and more appropriate. Thankfully my son, who I had started it for years earlier, still likes it so it's his now. Baby Snooks gets a new one. Sure wish my $%^@#&*( machine would sew a seam without shutting its computer off every time. I have until Thanksgiving for this one, think I'll go more the 'Modern Quilt' route so I can get it done quickly.
Hey, at least I have something to take to my Crit group meeting this week!
Homefront Update here. The Baby Shower is over, a big success for the new mom-to-be and I think about as tolerable as possible for the attendees. It was fun to be surrounded by the next generation and all went along well. (It's hard getting used to being the oldest person in the room!) I had it at a country club near here because I just couldn't get 20 people into my condo, let alone get a meal out and a house cleaned. OK, so I'm lazier than I used to be, but this worked fine. Instead I had a vegetarian meal disguised as food for meat eaters and nobody realized, but for a change Jackie could eat everything!
From left, my daughter, my DIL, Karen who arrived from Florida, the Other Mother, Brooke from Iowa, and my own good friend I hardly ever see.
I visited Toys R Us and loaded up on baby stuff for the tables- bright toy trucks, blocks and balls and stuff to hang from the stroller so there was a hint of it being a baby shower. The gifts piled up were the other decorations- so pretty all together with their soft colors.
The room had just been transformed from a big ugly patterned wallpaper with a big old ugly patterened rug to this soft gray paint with unadorned windows, simple and pretty. The windows look out over a golf course and the view was lovely on the prettiest day in weeks. Lucked out!
Flowers were hydrangeas, blue for our baby boy coming along, dahlias, and roses. I love dahlias, not much prettier than those.
Well, that's enough sauce with no meat for the day. Tomorrow I'll get back to trolling the
interwebs for arty stuff and my own amusement. Like this.
Word has it that the squirrels miss me.
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