Nashville Stitch N Bitch

snow day

It's no New York record snow storm, but give us a couple of inches here in the South and we're puling out the sleds. Our streets may be slushy, and it may melt by noon, but by God we're out there at 9am eating it off of the picnic table, making snow angels, and putting snowballs in our freezer.

This has been a supremely uneventful week in my craft world other than staring into the cold, hard barrel of my log cabin squares.

When I was a graphic designer, I used to tell my husband all of the time that symmetrical is easy, perfectly even is a piece of cake... it's the random that's hard. And good Lord almighty, random is harder than ever when you are trying to cut straight lines that are random in angle. Even more so when you are trying to make 9 layers of fabric randomly this way, and the next 9 randomly that way, and then put them all on your dining room table in the shape that you want them and pray that your 2 and 4 year old don't have a log cabin strip throwing party of some sort before you get to making all sixteen of this particular randomness that you would never ever ever in a million years be able to sort out again if indeed such a party took place. Oh, and then you have to make them all be able to line up in the end. Denyse Schmidt, I bow to you as my sovereign leader. You are a true Kicker Of The Asses Of The Rest of Us.

You poor people. Lots of black stockinette for your first month of the year, and now just lots of log cabin squares for your February and possibly March. At least they will all be very thoughtfully random.

xo

Posted by Angela at February 18, 2006 04:03 PM