March 16, 2007
Faking it...
hello all!
It is time for me to reclaim this space and get back to sewing!
You may have followed my expoits moving across country at my other blog. Flagstuff. Right now we are settled in to the best of our abilities. The house we bought is going to have work done starting this week, the contractor started yesterday.
This really is a no account photo, isn't it? Wha? Where?
I don't know what you know about me or if you've been reading over at Flagstuff but I now have two rooms that are adjacent to one another. This wall will open them up to one another. In one half I will have my dye room, in the other, my sewing room.
I imagine I should make an awesome set of draperies in a brilliant red for when I would like to work in a smaller space. It could be my 'harem' style sewing space, plush and inviting. And a far cry from my old space.
I have not been sewing as much as I would like, it sometimes feels uncomfortable. But that needs to change too and really, I think I have to Fake It Till I Make It.
The fun stuff?
My father bought me a bird feeding set up that mounts to the windows just outside my sewing room. My machine sits just in front of this window and they have just begun to frequent the feeder. Pygmy and White Breasted Nuthatches, Swansons (?) Sparrows, finches and an infrequent woodpecker, so far.
My Man and I will be taking a beginners birding class beginning March 27th at the library.
I intend to volunteer at High Country Raptors.
So in an effort to break my creative dry spell, I have begun working on a "map" of our trip out here.
This really is just a start. It harkens back to this journal entry but will diviate.
I just a few short weeks my second magazine article will appear in the pages of Quilting Arts Magazine. I wrote it during the month of January, made the artwork just before we left Connecticut. I am amazed that I was able to pull it off. I am excited because this time it will be about quilting and will describe some techniques I use in sewing quilt art. No surface design techniques this time around.
And I pray that my web site doesn't crash and burn just as the article is published. Remember that period?