Sometimes I think people must think I’m weird for taking pictures of the things I do. It’s true, I am strange, I guess. It’s the only explanation for these pictures.
This is the sidewalk outside my local titty bar. I noticed the blood a couple days ago and yesterday it had all been circled in spray paint. I wonder why.
I know I’ve shared my most recent excellent news with my family and friends, but here it is for the rest of the cloud.
I drive the 18 mile stretch between S. Florida and The keys frequently. It appears that someone actually has the job of painting the roadkill and circling it with this orange marker paint.
The pictures are great. Then again, I thought the scene in American Beauty of the bag swirling around in the wind was cool too.
I am so happy for you, mama. Sending big hugs through the internets to you.
Congratulations Wee Cait!
Tonight: the spray paint is still there but the blood is gone. It’s ghostly, like bleach was sprayed inside the lines. I should take another picture but it was too dark.
And thanks guys!
I totally get it.
Beauty in strange places.
I have also seen the roadkill highlights between here and Florida. like seeing a torn up animal spread across the road doesn’t speak for itself.
Congratulations on your good news. My best friend spent many a brutal year in legal battle with her husband’s ex as they first sorted the divorce and then sorted custody of his daughter. There really seems to be nothing that compares with the nastiness and selfishness that can come out in such proceedings. I am glad for you all that it is over. I hope you celebrate your new freedom by doing something frivolous and thoroughly awesome.
Thanks for the colour link to Etsy! I am just starting my first ever quilt. Any advice for a newbie? I am a bit intimidated, but I am throwing myself into new projects and not allowing for failure.
What type of quilt are you making? What pattern? I guess the only real advice I have is don’t buy tons of yardage-a few fat quarters are a good start-and use sharp scissors? I don’t know. There are so many rules for quilting that I hate, pinning for instance. Ironing. Accuracy.
Do you have a walking foot for when you’re doing the actual quilting part? I’ve avoided buying one so far but I’m going to have to break down soon.
Oh dear Lord. I am in over my head! I don’t even know what a walking foot is?!
I don’t have a pattern. I just thought I would do a front that is basic 4×4 squares put together into a 5 squares x 8 squares rectangle. Then I thought I would measure my back piece to be 2 inches bigger than the front, fold it over to the front so that I have about a one inch border and then sew the front piece to match up to the border.
Is this a crazy plan?
I figured I would do the quilting by hand because needlework is my truest love of all.
I will probably skip the pinning wherever possible, but my mom (who is a quilter too) said that she has learned the hard way never skip the ironing cause it ends up looking sloppy. gah! there is to think of! Why can’t sewing be all rainbows and happiness? why must there be stress of thread tensions and foot choice and ironing? sigh.
A walking foot is a kind of foot (huh!) that moves with the teethy things on the bottom, so it pushes the top of the fabric at the same time as the bottom and keeps things moving nicely. Good for thick situations like quilting but I bet good for denim and heavier fabrics too.
I don’t think it’s crazy to just DO something, not at all. If I thought that was crazy I wouldn’t have buckets of yarn, stacks of dollhouse stuff and a million other bits and bobs. The super good news about the “internet” is that anything you want to learn is already here, you just need to look. And there are so many quilting blogs it’s not even funny.
2 of my favourites are:
http://www.ohfransson.com/
http://www.redpepperquilts.com/
Oh Fransson is amazing, she does lots of giveaways and her quilts are beautiful. I would love to see her fabric collection, I really would. Eh, it’s probably posted somewhere on her blog.
Red Pepper doesn’t pin! HA HA!
They both have lots of patterns, tips, help, faq’s all that stuff. Good for ideas and for inspiration!