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I think chapter 6 is done. I took a break from it, I read it again, I still have no perspective. Ugh.
Kicking around ideas for going out of town for the weekend, but I kind of want to stay home, but I worry I’ll freak out and spiral into unproductivity at home. we’ll see. let’s hope I don’t. I’m feeling… it’s not that I’m better today, it’s that I’m not trapped at work being useless, so maybe I can kinda rise above all of that. Spending hours staring at my own body of photographic work last night kind of helped and kind of didn’t, I can’t tell.
I want/need to make insulated wall hangings for the yurt because I want to leave it up through the end of November, and last year being in it in October was a little tough, because it was 30 F some nights. With better insulation, that’d be easier, I think. And i have all these materials.
I did get started on one ceiling hanging I wanted to do– cut open a half-circle skirt I don’t wear, and cut batting and canvas to fit as insulation and a back lining. Now I have to quilt it together, and i don’t know how to do that. I might attempt a tied-quilt kind of thing? but I don’t know how to do that. We’ll see.
The next thing is convincing myself it would be okay to cut into actual fabric yardage. I just don’t believe that it’s okay, and I know it is. I own this fabric, it’s okay to use it for something. I don’t have to save it.
That’s probably my number one failing as a crafter: if I get something nice, I firmly believe I have to Save It. And like. OK, I get not using a nice thing to make a test piece that might not work. Sure. But.
I’m making flat wall hangings that are going to be suspended from curtain hooks. It is literally not possible to fuck that up irredeemably. I can use the nice fabric for the trial run if I want.
And the “nice fabric” was on sale. I can get more.
I think chapter 6 is done. I took a break from it, I read it again, I still have no perspective. Ugh.
Kicking around ideas for going out of town for the weekend, but I kind of want to stay home, but I worry I’ll freak out and spiral into unproductivity at home. we’ll see. let’s hope I don’t. I’m feeling… it’s not that I’m better today, it’s that I’m not trapped at work being useless, so maybe I can kinda rise above all of that. Spending hours staring at my own body of photographic work last night kind of helped and kind of didn’t, I can’t tell.
I want/need to make insulated wall hangings for the yurt because I want to leave it up through the end of November, and last year being in it in October was a little tough, because it was 30 F some nights. With better insulation, that’d be easier, I think. And i have all these materials.
I did get started on one ceiling hanging I wanted to do– cut open a half-circle skirt I don’t wear, and cut batting and canvas to fit as insulation and a back lining. Now I have to quilt it together, and i don’t know how to do that. I might attempt a tied-quilt kind of thing? but I don’t know how to do that. We’ll see.
The next thing is convincing myself it would be okay to cut into actual fabric yardage. I just don’t believe that it’s okay, and I know it is. I own this fabric, it’s okay to use it for something. I don’t have to save it.
That’s probably my number one failing as a crafter: if I get something nice, I firmly believe I have to Save It. And like. OK, I get not using a nice thing to make a test piece that might not work. Sure. But.
I’m making flat wall hangings that are going to be suspended from curtain hooks. It is literally not possible to fuck that up irredeemably. I can use the nice fabric for the trial run if I want.
And the “nice fabric” was on sale. I can get more.
