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It's a bit funny, I've been getting more comments on my fics lately.
People coming back to re-read, a couple of new commenters, and some people who just say "good fic".
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I made quilts! I mean, I'm almost always making quilts, but this year is kind of the "oh fuckit, I'm going to just sew stuff because I have SO MUCH FABRIC and I need to be rid of some of it" attitude.
Also, I have a list of people the length of my arm who I would like to give quilts to, and still have not. Need to pull my finger out.
There's a local woman who I get to quilt my quilt tops, and while she's decent, it's not quality work. Which is fine by me. It stiches the top and backing together, I bind it, it's cheap and DONE. But a few quilting friends of the...older persuasion...have been nudging me to try other quilters. And I might for these quilts:
Those two are 'large' (by my lights these days, I've been making rather smaller 'throw' quilts lately) and with the remainders (because the quilt as defined by the pattern was HUGE), I made a third one:
I've had the fabric for a decade and more - a collection that I gathered with intent and then...never found a pattern for. The large prints and small prints made it difficult, and I didn't want anything that looked too "patterned" if you know what I mean.
The pattern (for the first two) is the 'communique' quilt, and it only looks like it's a random layout; in fact the pattern has about 6-8 rectangles and is sewn together in halves before being joined down the middle. But the eye sketches across the different prints and the result is good for both big prints and small ones!
Perfect. I'm so happy with them!
But no, I won't be going to my usual 'everyday' quilter with these ones.
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Just had a sparky (electrician) around to quote for some work. Chatty guy. I always seem to get the chatty tradies. We'll see how much they charge, although he seems a decent sort.
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Creative writing last week was almost completely non-existent. I'm just losing my will to put words on a page, to tell stories.
I'm going back and re-reading old book series, though. I re-read The City Who Fought from McCaffrey's Brainship series, and am once again SUPER DOOPER MAD at the "sequel" all over again. Which was written by McCaffrey's co-author for The City Who Fought, and was vastly inadequate to the characters, the Brainship series, and whatever genre they were writing int.
Fortunately, The Ship Who Searched (co-written with Mercedes Lackey) is still my happy place, tyvm. I could take a thousand stories of Tia and Alex exploring the galaxy.
People coming back to re-read, a couple of new commenters, and some people who just say "good fic".
--
I made quilts! I mean, I'm almost always making quilts, but this year is kind of the "oh fuckit, I'm going to just sew stuff because I have SO MUCH FABRIC and I need to be rid of some of it" attitude.
Also, I have a list of people the length of my arm who I would like to give quilts to, and still have not. Need to pull my finger out.
There's a local woman who I get to quilt my quilt tops, and while she's decent, it's not quality work. Which is fine by me. It stiches the top and backing together, I bind it, it's cheap and DONE. But a few quilting friends of the...older persuasion...have been nudging me to try other quilters. And I might for these quilts:
Those two are 'large' (by my lights these days, I've been making rather smaller 'throw' quilts lately) and with the remainders (because the quilt as defined by the pattern was HUGE), I made a third one:
I've had the fabric for a decade and more - a collection that I gathered with intent and then...never found a pattern for. The large prints and small prints made it difficult, and I didn't want anything that looked too "patterned" if you know what I mean.
The pattern (for the first two) is the 'communique' quilt, and it only looks like it's a random layout; in fact the pattern has about 6-8 rectangles and is sewn together in halves before being joined down the middle. But the eye sketches across the different prints and the result is good for both big prints and small ones!
Perfect. I'm so happy with them!
But no, I won't be going to my usual 'everyday' quilter with these ones.
--
Just had a sparky (electrician) around to quote for some work. Chatty guy. I always seem to get the chatty tradies. We'll see how much they charge, although he seems a decent sort.
--
Creative writing last week was almost completely non-existent. I'm just losing my will to put words on a page, to tell stories.
I'm going back and re-reading old book series, though. I re-read The City Who Fought from McCaffrey's Brainship series, and am once again SUPER DOOPER MAD at the "sequel" all over again. Which was written by McCaffrey's co-author for The City Who Fought, and was vastly inadequate to the characters, the Brainship series, and whatever genre they were writing int.
Fortunately, The Ship Who Searched (co-written with Mercedes Lackey) is still my happy place, tyvm. I could take a thousand stories of Tia and Alex exploring the galaxy.
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The quilts are lovely!
Ah, I have fond memories of The Ship Who Searched and also The City Who Fought. Thankfully I never read the "sequel" so I will continue not to do so and remain un-annoyed.
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You know when a sequel takes all the good things from the original and then just MANGLES them? Yeah, this was one of those. *fumes*
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The Ship who searched is also a favourite of mind and I did enjoy the City who Fought. I just couldn't get into the sequel to that one.
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