For a good 45 minutes last night, lying in bed, trying to persuade my brain to shut up about the tables in my room. We’re doing 3 days of stations, one of which is working directly with me, hoping some small-group instruction will help with what we’re doing next, but also my school thinks this is magical (I think we need smaller groups, but we don’t have time to fix that issue) so my brain sits and worries over moving tables here or there or how to make sure this group is on Station 2 and that group is on Station 3. Fuck my brain. My classes of 36 are going to be fun…let’s just hope they’re still asleep from the weekend and don’t use this as a chance to completely lose it. We have Oreos as bribes.
It was a mentally busy weekend. I did a lot of different things…a whole huge pile of grading, although there is always more. And you never finish.
Saturday, I went to a stitch-in with a new group. I didn’t have any art quilts in a state to travel, so I took some applique I started about a year ago to use these moon-dyed pieces I got from Jude at Spirit Cloth.
This is the Modern Quilt Guild and my work is so NOT modern, but I went anyway. They seem pretty accepting. Swear words were used fairly early on. They are politically in my realm. I think it’ll work. Of course, it’s a Saturday, so I can’t go the next two months. Ah well.
I did finish two of these guys. That’s almost 4 hours of applique. I had one done already.
More embroidery to follow on these.
The rest of Saturday was grading stuff, watching these guys cavort…
(There’s birds out there. Maybe even bugs.)
A relatively quiet dinner with the man (the restaurant was not quiet)…
More cats sleeping.
It is what they do best. Ah yes, I forgot…here are the two drawings (one unfinished) from Friday night at the dive bar, waiting for the band to go on…
I just draw. I don’t think. It’s not always awesome.
Definitely needs more.
Can you see the gigantic moth in this picture? The cats can…
It’s an exciting Saturday night here. I did finally work on the artist’s book. I don’t know where I’m going with it.
I’m just going. Around a corner apparently.
Sunday morning had exercise, more grading, and then an art meeting in the afternoon. Nova looks a little cross-eyed at times.
She has all the dog toys.
Funky flower pods on the way to the meeting. Fuzzy is fascinating.
Honestly there were so many people at the meeting that my introvert self almost left. But I stayed. More art opportunities. I’m feeling overwhelmed at the moment.
At the grocery store, great lenticular clouds.
Weird weather heading our way.
And more floof sleeping.
I got a package of Anna Maria Horner fabrics as part of her Applique Story shipment. I was intrigued by her videos of creating these vignettes using really high color and crazy graphic fabrics. So I used them last night to do this…based on a drawing I started Saturday at dinner.
So yeah, now all that needs to be sewn down. It’s a little crazy. I like it. My brain was all over the place this weekend, I tell you. When that happens, you just have to go with the flow.
Then I sorted all the fabrics that were used in the last quilt, and put them all away.
That means I can start picking fabrics for the next quilt. Hopefully tonight. I’m trying to balance all the things. At once.
Another sleeping animal who doesn’t care about all that.
OK, well now I can go to school and actually figure out what I’m doing with the damn tables. Thanks brain for all that worry. Appreciate it. Hopefully I’ll make it back from school early enough to walk dogs…still chasing the sunlight on that endeavor. Winter sucks for that.
Kathy Nida 