Today I have to work for real. I did grade yesterday, but today I need to start the copyediting project I took on. But first? Chiropractor and Costco. I might need assistance getting out of the latter. Shitty timing for that, after seeing the grocery store yesterday. I always forget about the crazy food shopping that happens before Thanksgiving, now that the girlchild isn’t here for the day. She’s the amazing cook, where we had to drive to like 4 different stores finding all the stuff she needed, plus some desperate Thursday morning shopping trips. Can’t say I miss that, but I do miss having her around and cooking.
So when I get done with that, I’ll come home and read and correct until my eyes blur. Maybe I’ll stop before that. We’ll see. I’d like it done before I go back to school. But I also want to get done with the ironing…so balance. Speaking of balance, I took an art workshop yesterday…I did a lot of printmaking in college and soon after, but then I leaned into the fabric and fell in. But this was nice…I had an idea going in, so I did a rough sketch on paper, remembering to flip the word and letters…
Drew it on the rubber eraser stuff…this is way easier to carve than linoleum…
Carved and ready to ink…
Not bad…probably haven’t done this for 20 years…
Maybe these are my Xmas cards this year (although I need more)…
Then two nights’ worth on here, mostly doing more feather stitches on the right around the eye.
And finally in to the ironing. I had to find all the little-head pieces and iron them to the same flesh run as before…
Here’s all the pieces that were NOT flesh-colored but shoved in there…eyeballs, hearts, arteries, lungs, etc. I had to go up to piece 948 to get all the heads and arms picked.
But I don’t have 950 pieces ironed down…I gotta do all those inner pieces…
Here’s just the pile of arteries and heart parts.
At the parentals’ for dinner, I finished sewing down the wonky sun and started to do eyeballs and nostrils.
The wool stitchdown on this set of blocks seems to be taking forever. Maybe it’s because it’s been so long since I did the last one? I don’t remember.
These two slept on the back of the couch last night for quite a while together.
I did iron a ton of pieces last night…you can see the pile on the left…and the pile of fabrics on the right.
I still have all these innards to deal with…
I did some of the teeth and eyeballs and tongues, but not much else…just the hair on the little heads. So there are fewer piles than there were before.
Here’s all the fabrics I’ve used so far.
Calli this morning…glad to be in the house with a HooMan.
And her little brother, who wants to play…
I did actually start this post this morning, but then went to the chiropractor visit and a hell trip to Costco (should never go there near a holiday)…and then I started the sauce for the lasagne, ate lunch, and started copyediting before I remembered I’d never posted this. Whoops. Oh well. I’ll work for a while and then assemble lasagne and then maybe iron tonight. I love the ironing. The delving into color boxes to the deep back where there might be a fabric that hasn’t seen the light of day in a year, just to toss it into this quilt. Fun stuff.
*Staind, So Far Away
Kathy Nida 