to do is to be
Dec. 1st, 2004 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni like to make things. it's comforting, as if by doing so i'm retarding entropy and staving off the heat death of the universe. it's especially gratifying to me to see parts of a process completed.
i lost interest in knitting sometime before it became hip, and then my friend T hooked me on quilting. tonight's labor was sewing narrow strips of fabric to other strips of fabric to make wider tricolor pieces of fabric. sewing done, seams neatly pressed, now i must work myself up to cutting that work into squares and triangles that cannot deviate more than 1/16" else the pattern fail. so i'm going to rest a little tonight, and return to my task Friday. should my mission succeed, i will have made something that gives the illusion of a six strand braid of color. and that's just the border.
perhaps the pleasure in crafting objects or experiences is in making a mark on the world. every time my labor is wrapped into something, the world is reminded that i'm here. sometimes it's important to be here.
hey, Q, you're here too. Uranus hit my hot little hands yesterday, and i thank you. it was something i needed, but i didn't know it.
i lost interest in knitting sometime before it became hip, and then my friend T hooked me on quilting. tonight's labor was sewing narrow strips of fabric to other strips of fabric to make wider tricolor pieces of fabric. sewing done, seams neatly pressed, now i must work myself up to cutting that work into squares and triangles that cannot deviate more than 1/16" else the pattern fail. so i'm going to rest a little tonight, and return to my task Friday. should my mission succeed, i will have made something that gives the illusion of a six strand braid of color. and that's just the border.
perhaps the pleasure in crafting objects or experiences is in making a mark on the world. every time my labor is wrapped into something, the world is reminded that i'm here. sometimes it's important to be here.
hey, Q, you're here too. Uranus hit my hot little hands yesterday, and i thank you. it was something i needed, but i didn't know it.
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Date: 2004-12-02 03:07 pm (UTC)You and my Seattle droogs will be amused to note that I'm overbooked again. And that's after cance lling cocktails this Friday because I'm a bit sick and waited too long to formalize the invitations.
So maybe I will find a new craft.
Oh, and I'm going curling next month.
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Date: 2004-12-03 01:44 am (UTC)and i thought that was over the weekend :) poor girl.
is it like going bowling, with shoe rentals and everything, or is this on someone's frozen pond with household brooms?
Quilting
Date: 2004-12-02 10:35 pm (UTC)I enjoy the piecework much more than I enjoy the actual quilting.
Re: Quilting
Date: 2004-12-03 01:41 am (UTC)I could use some craft time
Date: 2004-12-14 10:09 pm (UTC)