Nashville Stitch N Bitch

none more black

You'll be pleased to know that what shall henceforth be known as my Asian - Bright Colored period is over.

Finally I used all of those goddamn scraps.

Lessons learned:

1. Never cut ALL of your fabric into what seems in your PMS-colored mind very tidy 1.5" wide strips. You'll want to tie them all together and hang yourself with them eventually.

2. Scraps are deceiving. While it makes you feel as if you are using your stash and being meticulous by using the most minute of scraps, by golly you have been had. What you have actually done is made more scraps! More scraps that you will, if you have a scrap (a "scrap" - get it?) of obsessive nature, want to make into something else and so on infinitum until you come back around to that tying the scraps together and hanging yourself with them thing.

3. Those wiley scraps. Better than any therapist, they were sneaky in their approach. They made you think differently. Put things together differently. Find ways to make things out of things that you hadn't thought of before. O scraps! You move me from suicide to love poems in 2 short steps.

4. Scraps are even more clever than you orginally thought! While you toyed with actually killing yourself over those things using them as the instrument of your death.... ha! they got you. They sucked you in. They made you want to move on to the next bag of scraps (Kid Prints - Cowboy) to see just what you could make out of them. Oh, you learned your lesson before - no more 1.5 inch strips - but there are squares! and rectangles! and all kinds of possibilities. The scrap show must go on!

Meanwhile, if you want to see the end of the Asian - Bright Colored period, you can visit them in my etsy shop.

By day I court my scrap bag, but by night, I date the Men's Black Sweater. I am a mere 1/2 sleeve, blocking and sewing away from being finished. As ann reminded me, Nigel Tufnel said, "It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black." None more black indeed.

She also mentioned a slightly used leather toggle. Now, Ann, if you think the leather toggle got no use at your house, do you really think Black Sweater Only guy will hear of it? Hmm?

xo

P.S. - please forgive the lengthy vacation with no warning - we forgot to re-up the domain name. Too scrap happy around here.

Posted by Angela at February 1, 2006 03:43 PM