Art Brain is like a little kid who doesn’t like bedtime. I wanted to be done with the stitchdown last night, and if I’d stayed up another hour, I could have done it. In retrospect, since my body refused to fall asleep anyway, I could have just stayed up and stitched and gotten the same amount of sleep, but that’s not how it’s supposed to work. Someone should explain that to my currently very tired brain.
Wednesday night I managed to get the whole thing ironed together, finishing up the face…
And then added the birds…
Then pieced a background, ironed the top of the torso to the bottom of the torso, and pulled it all off the teflon sheet…
And in a total of 13 hours and a few minutes, had the whole thing ironed down to a background…
That’s faster than I have been working. Good sign. Fuck school. Right? I don’t know. Ask me about that next week. I’m always playing catch up with this job.
Then last night, I started the stitchdown during my monthly quilt meeting…
IDK why the machine is always crankballs in the beginning with tension and then it eventually warms up? gets used to it? gives in? and stitches just fine. Annoying.
I took a break at one point to feed the other cats and do some stuff.
Came back and my chair had been occupied. She did eventually shift her butt over to let me sit, and then left because I obviously was hogging the chair. Oh yeah, the other things I was doing included hot-gluing the scratching post back together…
Like you do.
I really wanted to be done with this last night. Like I said, I could have done it. But no.
Just the upper torso, arms, head, and birds left. Then sandwich and pinbaste. Quilt. Bind. Might actually make the damn deadline. Who knows. Made an appointment at the quilt store to get binding fabric tomorrow. It’s the only day they’re open late enough. Frustrating. I miss being able to go over there after work whenever I wanted. I miss lots of things.
I’m working on my annual Patreon rewards.
Got them ironed to fabric. Hoping to get them mostly done this weekend. I have one set up for embroidery, but I haven’t started it. No time!
In other news, the girlchild…
and her dog…or my dog…who the fuck knows who in the family owns this dog…
Putting masks to good use.
The cats?
Would kill me if I tried that.
The man made it to Vasquez Rocks…
aka Star Trek episode location…
My meditation app made me laugh out loud.
Whoops. I really did try to think of a time. Blank.
And this.
Although that’s a blood clot. Or a bus clot. Whatever.
OK. School. Do it. It’s gonna be a long day for that. Then I think more rock hauling for me and the boychild, although he’s working for my dad today too. So we’ll see. Maybe a dog walk. Maybe not. Then finish the stitchdown tonight, maybe wash the floor, maybe pinbaste? That’s a lot for tonight. Maybe wash the floor and pinbaste tomorrow. Might be more realistic after working all week. I need to design (from scratch) a thing for my art students to do next Friday while I am driving to see the man. I need to finish sub plans for that, assuming they can find me a sub on the Friday before a 3-day weekend (ah well, admin can earn their big bucks teaching my hellacious schedule if they can’t find a sub). I need to wash the beeswax out of one composter and hope the bees don’t come back. I need to figure out the summer budget and see if I can actually afford to do more than eat and sleep. Which could be good goals. Add reading…books are free from the library. Make art and try not to need any more supplies (uh oh…do I have batting for this quilt? Yikes. There’s something to figure out like ASAP). OK. Yeah. All that.
Kathy Nida 