I apologize for how big these recent pictures have been. Something has changed with something or other and I can’t figure out how to update image size anymore. I’d also like to point out that the scraggly white bits hanging down at the bottom belong to the sheet underneath the quilt. My finished edges were even and smooth.
My friend ZoeJane and her Lord of the Realm had a housewarming party last night to, well, warm the house they just moved into last week. It has fantastic wood floors and a large master bedroom and shiny new appliances in the kitchen. There’s a built-in wine rack that filled with gift bottles of wine as guests arrived. Although there were 3-4 empty wine bottles at the end of the night so perhaps it’s not as full as it could be.
In addition to wine, I brought a small homemade wedding cake to celebrate their marriage two months ago. Their wedding was in the Bahamas and they didn’t even have a cake, so I thought this would be a good time to commemorate the occasion stateside. Matt Mechtley gave me two little figurines to use as the bridal couple on top: an elf swordsman from HeroQuest and a Chaos Warrior from Warhammer on which I glued a veil and tiny tiara. (ZoeJane enjoys fantasy novels and games.) I was pleased with myself. The cake was delicious and I will post pictures when they are available. My first real wedding cake was a success!
I gave my mother the quilt I have been working on for the past few months. I bought the turquoise fabric months ago - when I was still working on the Tetris quilt in fact - because I saw it and realized that it would be a perfect base for a quilt for my mom. It was originally intended to be a Mothers Day present and then I didn’t start it in time, and shortly after finally beginning it my grandmother died and I changed the design to include pieces of her clothing. The finished product was rather beautiful and I brought it with me to Minnesota to present to my mom, after putting in the final hems the night before. My aunt took pictures of it and I will post some as soon as they are emailed to me.
At the moment I am between quilts. My friend Sarah has asked me to make a baby quilt for their baby due in mid-December. When I went to buy batting at Jo-Ann Fabric a couple weeks ago I spent a good ten minutes excitedly choosing fabrics for the baby quilt even though I wasn’t going to buy any. I focused on bright green as the base with some yellow and a turquoise. I don’t have a design yet so I don’t even know how many colors I’ll need to choose. I also spent some time in the Baby Quilt section looking at the fabrics with ducks and baby bottles and little footprints. Perhaps the back will be more traditionally babyesque.
I have also been asked to make a Kid Icarus quilt, which is a Nintendo game from the ’80s. He hasn’t made the design yet, although it looks like it will be pixel-based with four colors total and focus on just the character and not the level. That will probably be the next one, depending on how soon he buys the fabrics.
I watched the season opener of “Top Chef” and ate takeout Chinese food with five women tonight. I had such a great time. I had only met one of them before and I didn’t feel awkward. They are all in the same psychology graduate program, which they kept calling “the Program”, and we joked that my being there was actually a cult recruitment effort to get me to join the Program. We also talked about testicles,’80s pop music, and Brazilian bikini waxes. I was part of true girl talk and we all laughed and it was fun.
One person asked how Rebecca and I had met and I said, “Okcupid.com”. She replied, “… oh, I see.” After a brief pause Rebecca chimed in: “They have a friend networking thing too. We’re not dating,” and then we laughed some more. It seems that rumor had gotten around in the Program because last time we hung out somebody had said, “She’s out tonight with a girl she met on the internet”. Which is very much true, and does not provide quite the correct idea.
Next Wednesday is going to be awesome, assuming my flight isn’t really delayed and I can still make it. Testicles and old school Paula Abdul, how can you go wrong.
