c'est le weekend - formidable!

[tielan]

So my weekend consisted of a few things:

1. Quilting

I finished this quilt top:



The quilt will be for my mother's Soroptimists chapter to raffle off later this year. It's 76" square, the fabric is Domestic Bliss by Liz Scott, the quilt pattern is Swell by Camille Roskelley.

I must also remember to put together a costing sheet for the price of a quilt to answer all those nice old ladies who think that they can ask me to put together a quilt for, oh, a hundred dollars. (Not counting the fabric and the thread, just the hours worked on this at $20/hr come to around $800; assuming that I count my quilting skills, experience, and time that cheap.)

I also started the SHIELD dress for the Superheroes Ball at D*C. It's all cut out and although the lining isn't quite the right colour, I'm contemplating making some 'extra' lining out of the same fabric as the dress - also, bodice reinforcement since I don't think I'll be able to wear a standard bra with this.

2. Hockey

Lost 3-1, we played well, but at least one of the other players was whingy. Man, I hate playing with whingy people...

Played on the field again; I think the coach has a pretty rigid idea of where I'm supposed to be playing as a wing. I do tend to move around a lot. Although 1st half I was playing a half-back, and pretty much just sitting on their forward so she couldn't get the ball. But the leg was okay.

Next weekend will be interesting, though - it's the team we were playing against when I did my calf muscle, at the field where I got injured. We're going to have to up our game; this team are good. And bitchy, which is always annoying.

3. Femme Remix

Should end up around 1.5K - at the trickiest part: trying to get a cohesive theme happening that works anywhere except in my head.

4. Marvel Bang

I'm going to need to write 1.5K a day to this in order to get it anywhere near enough for the 26th, which is when the 1st draft is due. Considering how much stuff I need to have prepped before I go away...

Let's just say it's not looking promising...

Comments

[monanotlisa]

That quilt is gorgeous!

And I sure hoping you'll be okay on your ficathons.

[tielan]

Thank you!

I think I will be, if I can only knuckle down... Easier said than done since I've spent the evening so far installing my work computer...

[bridgetmkennitt]

Pretty quilt!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[james]

Oh yeah, the horrors of pricing a quilt! I found I could either charge for my time OR materials if I wanted one to actually sell, but never both. (And then when people say "well I know WalMart sells fabric for cheap, can't you use that?")

It is one reason I only sell baby quilts now, because people are much more willing to spend $125 on a brand new baby.

[tielan]

Yeah, baby quilts are saleable. I don't mind the extra effort in there (although the price is still not the accurate cost) but a full-size quilt? No. Not worth it.

[jelazakazone]

Preach! I have never sold a practical use quilt. Only ones meant to hang on the wall.

[scribblemyname]

:hugs and blessings and well wishes: My femmeremix fic was done at 11 pm last night. It was my seventh fic (6 WIPs discarded, including the one that really wasn't remixy enough).

Gorgeous quilt! I love your work.

[tielan]

I need to finish my FemmeRemix, although I did tell theladyscribe that I'd be finished by the 5th but not completed by the 3rd, so it's okay. :)

[scribblemyname]

That's always a relief when you can work out the timetable anyway.

[jelazakazone]

Nice quilt top! Looking forward to seeing how you quilt it.

[tielan]

This one is going to the computerised quilter for doing. It doesn't require a detailed or specific pattern, so I'm going to happily pay someone else to do it. :)

[jelazakazone]

If I ever make a quilt that size again, I'm totally quilting by check too! :D

[tielan]

Well, most of mine are this size these days, but whether or not I personally quilt them depends on whether I want an all over, standard design, or if I want to make it an art quilt.

Yours are mostly art quilts, so I understand?

[jelazakazone]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

I did make and quilt a baby quilt this year! First practical quilt in two years. LOL. My ideas are starting to expand. Current project will comprise 7 panels that are each roughly 19 inches on a side. Maybe one of these days I'll make something big.

I'm starting not to think of myself as a quilter any more. I don't care about the "rules" of quilting. I'm not interested in entering a major show, like Houston. I just want to manipulate fabric and textiles to do my bidding. Mwaa haa haa. :D

[tielan]

"Sewist"? :)

I think we can get too rigid about labels. My quilting group decided not to be a 'guild' because the Modern Quilt Guild wanted anyone calling themselves a modern quilt guild to follow specific rules which we felt were too restrictive for who we wanted to be.

*shrugs*

We're now the Sydney ModSQuad: Sydney Modern Sewists and Quilters. :)

[jelazakazone]

Artist is what I'm leaning towards. Artist who can't draw who manipulates fabric and uses a sewing machine :D

Love it! Be creative. Be inclusive. Those kinds of groups work for me. Having personal feelings of dissatisfaction with a group I'm in. Meh. It's all good as long as we are creating and being respectful.

[frith_in_thorns]

Your quilts are gorgeous. And I definitely feel you on the pricing woes -- I knit very intricate lace shawls and people keep "suggesting" I make them one but have no idea how much time and effort goes into them. I had a very bad argument with my best friend last year when she "commissioned" me to make a shawl for her mother's 60th, but had only thought I'd expect to be paid the yarn cost. We worked it out (I think I charged her £40 + yarn cost in the end, which is a fraction of the market value of my time making it), but that is the first and only shawl I'm ever selling. People I really like get them as gifts occasionally, but that's all.