a tale of two thumbs

[tielan]

Actually, it's just one thumb.

I haven't been posting my quilts here lately - too much effort just to post them over at Mad Quilter's Disease, let alone over here, too.

So we'll start with bodily injury.




Yes, that is a sewing machine needle. Yes, I sewed through my thumb. Yes, that needle went through the nail into my thumb, hit the bone (probably) and bent out the pad (where the bloodspot is on the bandaid).

I was so surprised, I forgot to take my foot off the pedal motor. Luckily the needle was already stuck there or it would have been a lot more bloody.

That was last Wednesday night.

It's gotten better since then. Just that achey tenderness that tends to happen when you stab needles through your fingers.

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And a quilt I made is going in the Sydney Quilt And Craft Show this year! (At least one. I haven't received notification that the second has made it in.)

This is actually a group quilt, collectively put together through the efforts of a dozen different people, although particular note should go to Penny Poppleton, the Sydney Modern Quilt Guild president, who did all the little, painstaking things to get this done.

It's monster big, monster heavy, totally beautiful, and was six hours of quilting!



Isn't it lovely? *beams proudly*

All those little dots in the middle of the squares? Are little hexagons, about 1.5" wide. From the fabric collections of a dozen different people.

Anyway, the Sydney Craft And Quilt Fair is usually very traditional, so this...this could be interesting...

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I was hoping to get my Eternity Quilt into the show:



But I haven't yet heard from them as to whether it's been accepted. Hopefully by the end of the week, though!



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One of my plans for coming to the US later this year is to take along a bag full of quilts for handing out to ppls I have stayed with while in the US in the past. I've already spoken to Alli. Sue? Bec? Don't know if Hya is still online, let alone reading this. And I'm pretty sure Lola isn't.

Comments

[jenab]

Those are gorgeous quilts. I just love the colours in both of them.

[tielan]

They're very rainbow-based. In the Eternity quilt's case, it's a kind of colour wheel.

Thank you!

[havocthecat]

Wow, those are gorgeous quilts.

Let me know if you're coming to the Chicago area when you come to the US, okay?

[tielan]

Not this year! Closest I get is probably New York. Coming in through the south-west, then into the South, then out via New York, possibly via Virginia or NC.

I really really want to come back to Chicago sometime, though! *hugs*

[havocthecat]

Darn! Well, I'll keep hoping, or hoping that some day I'll be going to a con in the States the same year as you. Though this year and next are going to be terrible for anything not in Chicago, alas.

[tielan]

Also: I stayed with you while in the US once, didn't I? Want a quilt? :)

I can't do the two in the post, but there are others... :)

[havocthecat]

You did, back when the kidlet was really, really tiny. I would love one, thank you!

[thothmes]

Lovely, lovely, lovely! You are preparing my eyes well for what will happen in half an hour when I go out to run and fill my eyes with spring flowers!

Just in case you happen to be feeling like a klutz, I wish to point out that a few years ago I was working on a Halloween costume, and I managed to get a scissors into my index finger up to the bone. It's a blot on my fingerprint now, but wasn't a big deal after the first couple of days.

Welcome to the Order of the Finger. We're a creative sisterhood.

[tielan]

The thing is that I've done that thumb in while cooking, too. Lopped a chunk out of it while chopping garlic, ended up calling the parentals because I was feeling faint....

And I'm glad you like the quilt!