project 30/33rd

Baltazart and I have the main project which you can get to by the above link, but I wanted to find an outlet for some of the unrelated things that I do. Primarily if I get a thing that I want to say about something - kinda like a blog, but the site builder wouldn't let me have two or more "blog-like" pages. So here we are. If I'm posting updates about where I'm going or what I'm doing I'll post them here. If Baltazart is keen he'll have his own similar page. What follows below is a collection of writings and images that I choose to put out here.

The page is called "eye'la misc." for a reason.

So I have to ask, what exactly is it imitating? My first thought was milk, but the price wasn't indicative of that... milk cheese was more expensive... that makes me think it might just be imitating cheese. Not cool.

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I love you but
The disconnect between spelling
And intelligence baffles me.


I love you but
You make excuses. 


I love you but
Without realizing it you passed the sarcastic line; 
You should really reevaluate your status.

The Law School's immortalized benefactor falls pray to the "alcohol permitted" law school parties.

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So I've never done any quilting before, neither has any of my friends, or anyone that I have access to. But I needed a project for my free time in the winter quarter and so decided I'd try my hand at it. There are oodles of good tutorials online, and I have to say, I think it came out rather well.  
 
I need to find a better way to photograph this thing... it is too big for me to just stand on the couch and expect to get a good image, so you're left with what you see below. The quilt is full size. The blocks are all 4x6 inches and they are in a gradient from a black to light grey with six distinct colors (though all the colors are patterned-- none, not even the black is a solid color). The stars are hand appliqued (also something I've never done). They're in three colors of lime green; one fabric I bought for the purpose, and the other two were salvaged from a bed sheet that developed a hole, and from a pair of pajama pants that also died but that I loved too much to get rid of. There is a 4 inch wide solid black border on the front, and then a 1/2 inch binding of the same pattern as the darkest "black" in the quilt gradient. The backing is baby pink and I embroidered (another first time) my signature onto a matching pink fabric swatch then appliqued it into the lower right corner.
 
Some things were very difficult to do on my machine since it is an economy sewing machine-- it's a miracle it worked at all. And as a reward for a life of paying attention to margins and picas I was rewarded with a quilt front free of errors-- perfect seams! Perfect measurements! The back, mostly as a result of my less-than-spacious machine, has some squiggly lines in the stitching, but nothing that one would notice if one were not looking.  

Aside from some how-tos, I followed no pattern. The idea was merely the product of some late night foot gazing. I have every intention of doing another quilt, this time with rainbow colors, but it will have to wait till next year! Maybe I'll even take a class... ghasp!