"But I couldn't burn the blanket."
Jun. 27th, 2005 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenhandmade gifts have a certain magic in them. when you make something for someone, you are not only giving them the object, but a number of hours of your life. i have many things my mother has made for me, and i can't get rid of them because i feel the power in them. i've come to think carefully about who can have a piece of me and how. i'm suspicious of people who ask for handmade gifts; it's like asking for a bit of soul. i can't ask the many artists i know to create for me unless they ask, as if the very expression of my desire corrupts the work. i suppose it means that i don't always get what i want. perhaps it's just as well.
my schedule is finally starting to open up again, so of course i want to fill it with the craftiness. mostly it's my desire to fight entropy any way i can. i was supposed to post pictures of quilting some time ago...this is the table square i did for my mom.
that's not the pattern i intended to use (mistakes were made) but the substitute i made was good practice for the basic block to make the project mentioned here. it's the one on the book cover. i've been picking it up and putting it down for six months now, but the plan is to finish it and (assuming they'll take it) donate it to the SFWA emergency fund.
i finally bought and read all of Blankets last weekend. it's achingly beautiful in places, and Thompson is my age and from a somewhat similar background. his discovery that people like him are popular at his girlfriend's school was particularly poignant to me.
my schedule is finally starting to open up again, so of course i want to fill it with the craftiness. mostly it's my desire to fight entropy any way i can. i was supposed to post pictures of quilting some time ago...this is the table square i did for my mom.
that's not the pattern i intended to use (mistakes were made) but the substitute i made was good practice for the basic block to make the project mentioned here. it's the one on the book cover. i've been picking it up and putting it down for six months now, but the plan is to finish it and (assuming they'll take it) donate it to the SFWA emergency fund.i finally bought and read all of Blankets last weekend. it's achingly beautiful in places, and Thompson is my age and from a somewhat similar background. his discovery that people like him are popular at his girlfriend's school was particularly poignant to me.
