Nashville Stitch N Bitch

look kids!

It's like Chevy Chase in European Vacation when he says with a maniacal laugh as he goes around the traffic circle for the 80th time, "Look kids! Big Ben! Parliament!"

And that's how I feel about these squares. "Look kids! Squares! And even more squares!"

Another thing from my design days: There's this rule (well, maybe not so much a rule, but a suggestion) in typography that says something to the effect that if you are going to make type look odd or "bad" or rough or anything like that, that you should just DO IT baby. Don't be half ass. Go all the way. Make it look like you meant it. If you get it somewhere in between, it will be tough for your viewer to know if you were being cutting edge or if you just suck. And of course, like everything, there's a fine line in there. One side of the line says "I COMPLETELY OVER DID IT" and the other says "I DIDN'T DO ENOUGH AND NOW I LOOK LIKE I MIGHT JUST NOT KNOW WHAT I'M DOING" and it's really hard to walk that line without falling to either side.

So I'm hovering around in that guideline somewhere, trying not to be a pansy, and trying not to scream overkill with my random cutting. And we're, quite literally, on square 1 here people so if I'm overthinking things now, well, you quite possibly haven't seen overthinking to the degree that might come later. It will give you something to look forward to I guess, if you don't have much going on in your life otherwise.

I have 4 more square 1s to do before square 2 takes over. The plan is this: make 3 different varieties of "randomly cut" asymmetrical squares. Then, turn them in different directions so that they look even more random! Do you see the brilliance? See, I wasn't joking with the Denyse being the Kicker Of All Of Our Asses thing. I mean it. She's a real kicker of quilting ass in more ways than one.

More squares later, you lucky ducks, as they become available.

xo

Posted by Angela at February 22, 2006 04:20 PM