A Cleaning Day?

As you can probably see, the office is even worse than usual.  The reason?  Well I actually did some things. hehehe

Yesterday I sent out several boxes.  I sent 13 yards of sequin fabric to my dear friend Pam Seeman of Paint Box (She designs doll clothing like I do.)  We met at my first Doll Convention because some customers just can't keep Paint Box and Boxpleat separate. hehehe  She graciously offered to take some of my work with her when she goes to the Final "Official" Gene Convention in June, so I spent the first part of the week sorting, pricing and packing the odds and ends that I had.  I told her I had a few pieces but was surprised to find that I had more than 100.  Not all of it is "never before seen" but there is quite a lot.  The best part about this set up is that I don't have to take pictures!  I will say this: I sent a Large Priority Flat Rate box and it was entirely filled to the brim.  I hope some of my customers will find some things they like and will remember me fondly.  Gene was my first convention.

In the meantime, you can see the state this has left my office in.  I also sent away the large box for hte Humanitarian Aid Center....16 pounds of wall hangings and new clothing for the Orphanage Modules they make.  I figured with the big earthquake disasters we have been having lately, the stocks are probably being depleted.

I am feeling a drive to do more, to use my hands to make and build....but first I need to get organized in my own head, and thus I need to organize my own space.  Here's to a clean office and an orderly mind.  Happy day to you. k.

Always a Quandry...

Ooops, in the throes of my Anti-picture post I forgot to do my office pic.  Maybe I had better just give that up as an affectation.  What do you think?

This is what I have to present for today....and my quandry.  (Sometime I will get back up to speed with all the other adventures I am having, but it is good to start small. :)

This is a little piece I put together with one of my Brand-Spanking New Accuquilt GO!  (I think the exclamation mark is part of the trademark. heheh)  It is a pretty snappy little thing and works well for what it is.  What is that you may ask?  Well it is a die cut system designed for fabric.  Accuquilt Website  You buy a cutter (called a die) for each specific shape you need.  I have the small version (GO!  Be sure to note the exclamation mark.) which will precision cut up to 6 layers at a time.  (The Studio version is a little heavier duty at 10 layers.)

Now those of you who know me well may be perplexed.  This is a great product for people who like to do the same thing over and over again....which as you know I do not. 

I still think that it will be a useful product in my office, but I am going to have to work at it a bit.

Cutting the Apple Cores was actually fun....fun for Senneth.  As the dies are foam with the blades buried inside they are safe to handle; so I prepared the fabric pieces and had S. crank the handle that forces the die between the rollers.  She reported that it was great fun and was disappointed when I announced that we were done for now.  What you see above are some of the pieces we cut.  The curved edges have the notches in the die so the centers of those curves are already marked.  I still had to snip the concave edges when putting them together but the results were fairly easy to achieve.  I didn't take a close up but the corners set in beautifully.

My difficulty is this:  Now that I have this cute little piece, do I wrap it up quick as a wall hanging and put it in the box going to Humanitarian Services (I even have left over red bias tape to bind it with!) or do I find some blue and do the whole primary color thing in an actual quilt.  I have more yellow but not more red....well except for the bias tape.  (Wow that yellow is hard to read.  I see why good web designers don't do colors very often. hehehe)

What do you think?  In the meantime I think I will go back to working on the Circles piece.....

Go Check out the Cursed Quilt Blog.  I posted the pics of the Wall Hangings we have ready to go.  Be sure to comment on the ones you like best.  There are a few more that didn't quite get finished, so there may be more pics later. :)  Have a happy day. k.

Okay, so I think I am avoiding my own blog.  How sad is that?!?!

Part of the reason I had to take a break from doll sewing is that I despise the taking pictures thing.  I am not that good at it, it is time consuming and not as much fun as ALL the other aspects of my work....which means I let it pile up until there is a mountain of it which is simply just too tall to climb.

So here we are again, only it is the quilting I need to do pics of.... :(  time for doll sewing again? heheh  A dear friend has offered to take some of my work to the last Gene Convention in June so I am feeling a bit tempted to make a few spectacular bits just to have some income without all the PICTURES!?!? 

Things I should be posting about over the last month include:  The Hexagon Placemats, the Butterfly Garden experiment, my Strip Hexes and Modern Art, and let's not forget the Foundation Stripped Asian experiment....there is also the Unnamed Circle project on the floor (needs borders before I can inset the rest of the circles.)  Oh and there is a new fabric palette here on one of my bins crying out to be something....but only after the Micheal Miller "Lagoon" gets to be something (I like those so well I am feeling a little chicken to cut in to it! hehehe)  AND I have yet to even try out my Accuquilt GO! cutter (I plan on doing THAT today.) And I suppose on a final note, I just found out that the Yongsan Quilters Group has a Statler Stitcher?!?!?  $35,000 of longarm computer amazingness that is available for use.  Of course, I can't find anyone to tell me about it (or how to join if you hae to be a member...NEED to work on that.)

So there!  No pictures, but not short on Work or Play. k.