Posted on 01/20/2007 9:36:14 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
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My life is but a weaving
Between my Lord and me,
I cannot choose the colors
Nor all the pattern see.
Sometimes He chooses sorrow
And I, in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the under side.
Not till the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will He reveal the pattern
Or tell the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the weavers skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
Author Unknown
I usually quilt through my applique pieces as well as the background, so I don't have a sagging issue. I would think it would be especially important on a banner as it is meant to be hung.
Thanks for the input, sissyjane. I don't plan to quilt these, but I could add a piece of woven fabric to the backs and do some extra stitching to add some stabilizing.
Some details will need to be embroidered (probably by hand). That could be an opportunity to attach them.
I'll keep thinking as I do the drawing and patterning. If you have any more ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks! :-)
My Ashcroft Wheel is buried until the grandkids are big enough to leave my things alone...sigh... I miss my spinning. I had a few opportunities to demostrate at the Pioneer Power Shows in Minnesota before hubby got ill, and it was a lot of fun. One of the things I noticed was that more MEN were interested in what I was doing than women. (I also had a couple of male-spinner penpals long ago. They taught me some nifty tricks, like putting the ply bobbin on the floor under a glass bottle (1 Liter/1/2 gallon size, roughly) with the bottom cut out of it. Run the ply up and out of the mouth of the bottle, and your bobbin will stay in one place neatly. (My Lazy Kate was a piece of bleep. I was always looking for a way to contain my bobbins...)
Polishing silver, brass, etc.
I'm inspired to craft; but all these chores get in the way!
You want to fascinate some boys, do some drop spindling near them...they are amazed how fluff turns into string....
Yup. Conundrums are like rain coats.
How puzzling! ;0)
Your post makes me smile.
When I've done demos for the public with my wheel or a couple of looms, it is almost always the men who come over to talk and take a closer look.
I think it must be the motion, the intriguing machines that are so simple and accessible, yet mysterious at the same time. :-)
Thanks for the smile. :-)
My pleasure! Anytime... here's another: ;o)
:-)
Finished 9 cartoons yesterday for the By Jove banners. That's a good day's work.
Tomorrow is fabric shopping, then redrawing the designs with sharpies and transferring them to scrim so the originals can be cut for patterns.
I love multistep projects... after I get the steps figured out and lined up in my mind! LOL
My life is littered with unfinished projects, one of which is an Aran afghan I'm trying to finish before this time next year. It's only been hanging fire about five years...
And then, there's the Double Nine-Patch/Feather Circle "Lap Quilt" I started in the Nineties. We won't go into that one, because I can't find it, even though it's about half finished. (Lap quilts, for the uninitiated, are made by the block, then the block sandwiches are sewn together. I guess that's why they call it a "lap quilt." It doesn't need a frame.)
And, I have a whole basket of yarn I've spun, waiting to be knitted up into SOMETHING. I have a copy of the "Sweater Workbook," and made a couple of nice handspun/handknit Fair Isle "sampler" sweaters with it. Sigh... I can't die yet. I've got projects backed up until well into the 'Teens.
What is life without unfinished projects?
Finished?
LOL!
About 10 years ago, I was overwhelmed and becoming undone by unfinished projects.
So I worked out a rationale....
If an unfinished project was no longer exciting for me, if I had learned all the lessons it had to teach me, I tossed it.
I had scads of embroidery and needlepoint kits, for instance that were just boring. If I paid $10-15 for them several years earlier, I calculated what it would have cost to take a class to learn the intricacies of the kit that caught my attention in the first place. Easily $30 for a day-long, or half-day class.
So I figured I came out $10 to $20 ahead!
Sneaky, I know, but it got rid of piles of plastic bags with ugly projects, and gave me freedom to move on to learn new skills and play with new ideas.
There's just enough residual guilt that I don't buy kits any more. I'm more inclined to buy a book to learn new information. They're much easier to store! LOL
I figure if it's sat still for awhile and I haven't worked on it, then its materials are fair game for a new project. I do balance out how much I've got left over my desire to finish it. But if I need the needles for something else, or that piece of yarn would be just perfect for this sock, well then, ribit, ribit, ribit as I frog away.
I seldom buy kits, mostly books and supplies and patterns.
Pretty soon the air will be blue with me making a pair of stays. I need to hurry up and get a period correct outfit together - shift, 2 petticoats, stays, pockets (I love 18th c. pockets, they're huge and hold everything! ) cap and a jacket. One of my club members is now leader, has a daughter that wants to join, and wants me to rewrite some rules for equipage and advancement that are biased against women...(not intentionally, I think.) So now I'm all excited. I'd make me my Marie Antoinette outfit, but it'll take to long to get the pocket hoops and silks sewn...Maybe a summer weight wool dress, perhaps. But after the other stuff.
So how much of this will I actually get done in the next three months?
Ooohhh, you sound inspired! :-)
I guess your productivity will depend entirely on what Ahmadinajad's To Do list looks like over the next few weeks! LOL
I'm hoping to make a 'wrong' cotton muslin hemmd this week, with machine sewn 'blackwork.' I'm in a faking it mood. Might use red thread just because. ;-P lol
See you tomorrow....
LOL!
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