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I finally did it. I ironed Misty Fuse to my precious art cloth and I cut it. First, I drove myself nuts by folding and auditioning shapes and fabric on the design wall. I love working with these colors.
Then, I decided to just move forward, and as soon as I started ironing on the misty fuse, I felt more confident.
The next step was to cut the fabric and start laying out the design on batting. It seemed easier to do this on one of my large tables.
Then I pinned the pieces to the batting and put it up on the design wall for a look and tweaking.
Some of the pieces are a little wonky, but it is not fused yet so I will tweak it some more tomorrow. After it is fused, I will move on to quilting it. This is the latest in my construction series.
It is Wednesday so it was off to WW. I am happy to say that I was down 1.6 pounds so I lost my gain and more so I am at a new low weight!!
Mr C and I awoke to an e-mail problem on all three computers. We could receive e-mail, but we couldn’t send it. While I was at WW, Steve got in touch with Comcast. They gave him some hokey story about a virus. I have a Mac; I don’t get viruses and why would it effect all 3 computers – 1 PC and 2 macs. So, we called them back and they checked all of our settings and then had us see if we could send mail from the Web. which we could. The tech then deemed it our problem on our computers. Not!! So we called them back and we did not hang up until they found the problem — a spam filter that was blocking our sending mail. Why was it there? I don’t know.
I am such a political junkie. I was on pins and needles last night. I was disappointed that Obama did not get the predicted double digit win, but in reality, it was a good result for him.
Here is my problem with Hillary. I keep seeing one of those questions in an IQ test. What comes next in this series?
Bush/Clinton/Bush/______
And I don’t want to have it be Clinton. We can do better.
The media is driving the gender/race issues in the wrong direction and it is easy to begin responding to the crazy-making they sell…I respect Hilary Clinton’s ambitions, contributions, and intellect, and know that she will continue to be a major player in political policy without winning the nomination.
I had begun to wonder if I was the only voter around who remembered Monicagate, impeachment proceedings, and all the lies the American people were told during the Clinton years. Yes, Clinton did have some positive policies,and comes across as a likeable guy. I want someone who has both personal and political integrity, and neither of the Clintons fit that, IMHO. So yes, Gerrie, we CAN do better than another Clinton in the White House. And lest anyone think I am anti-feminist- I would love to see a woman president- just not Hillary.
And even this cynical boomer has been moved and inspired by Obama’s words. He is a huge breath of fresh air!!
LOVE the color palette Gerrie!
I agree that being governed by just two families for a quarter of a century is a disturbing thought. My problem with Hillary has nothing to do with gender or with Bill. It’s that she seems to be entrenched in the partisan-politics-as-usual, negative-campaign mode. She doesn’t seem interested in changing the tone or healing the divide between the parties like Barack wants to do. And I really don’t appreciate the way she’s trying to scare us into voting for her. Haven’t we had enough Dick Cheney scare tactics?
Kathie:
We subscribe to the NYT and so I have read it. I take it all with a grain of salt. I just don’t want the feminists (and I am one) to get all in a huff. I think that she has been treated very fairly. It just drives me nuts that what they do to another guy is politics as usual, but for Hillary it is a sexist attack. We are not treating her equally if we start kvetching.
Just my humble opinion.
Whether or not you’re a Hillary supporter, this is an interesting read: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=steinem&oref=slogin
Love it! Have you been in my studio? This is the perfect companion piece to what’s on my design wall right now! Quick quick, finish it up and enter Tactile Architecture. (Deadline Feb 15)
Hi Gerrie, Looks like your back at it! Will be glad to see what you come up with in this project.
I just saw this site on Jeannies blog. You might be interested:
http://www.artsactionfund.org/artsvote/001.asp
and send in your email letter here:
http://capwiz.com/artsusa/nh/issues/alert/?alertid=10155116&type=CU
Those fabrics look so yummy all together. I look forward to your end results.