September 7, 2002

  • I've decided to answer a question. 


    Does Quiltnmomi Actually Quilt?


    Yes.  But, I've been stuck on the latest project for about a year.  I like to piece the little pieces.  I like to play with color vaue, and patterns.  But when it comes to actually quilting the thing together into a finished product - I get stage fright.  I'm pretty good at piecing.  I can do some elaborate and innovative things.  My designs look like stained glass windows, or kaleidescopes, or antique patterns that might have graced the home of my great great grandparents.


    But, its a funny thing about quilting.  For the math to work out, the pieces are sewn with a quarter inch seam.  Do you know how thin that is?  I don't think much about it until I start picturing one of my quilts holding up under actual use.  Then I panic.  I kept the very first quilt I made, but all the rest have been given away.  What if I give a quilt away and it comes apart at the seams!  How embarrassing.


    The one I'm (not) working on is an Arkansas Crossroads pattern done in Christmas colors.  Its promised to my Mother-in-Law if I ever finish it.


    Not finishing things has become a leitmotif around here in the past several years.  I start something - be it a quilt, a potholder, or dinner - and then something happens.  I get distracted.  I lay aside my work to take care of the urgent thing, and then I never go back to it.  (This has led to us sending out for more than one pizza.) 


    I've never thought of myself as flaky.  I prefer to think of it as the "absent-minded professor" syndrome.  But, yesterday, my son brought it into focus for me.  "Mom, did you remember to eat lunch?  I didn't see you do it."  When your kid starts reminding you to eat, it isn't absent-minded - it's flaky.

Comments (19)

  • BBWWAAAHHHHH HHHAAA HHAAAA HHHAAA HHAAA!!!

    I just spewed chocolate milk through my nose!!! 

  • You are not flaky... for us that is normal.  And, come on you can finish the quilt... yes, you can ... hmm, heads back to the three or four that in beginning, middle and almost finished mode.....

  • You sound like me with counted cross stitch...I have bits and pieces all over...someday I'll get them finished. You should take pics of the quilts...

  • well, duh. you need to finish the pot holder first, so you can use it to cook dinner with. and then you need to cook dinner, before you can eat. did your son see you cook first?

  • My hubby is the total absent-minded professor, and he forgets to eat all the time!

  • I've got a completed quilt top sitting right here, like it has been for two years...wanna come over for a quilting bee?

  • You could always use the machine for the piecing work and do the handstitching for the actual quilting part...I know what you're talking about, because, you see, I've got a quilt in pieces in a bag in the closet...one day, one day!   Spot

  • I made a quilt once.. and it took me forever.  My mom has it now...  

  • You sound like me with everything, lets see I have half finished terra cotta pots, left mid project for the cute little air plants that needed to be mounted, left those for cd painting, left those for blogg time...left that for something else,....dinner ? whats that I forgot to cook it ..oh thats what that slab of half frozen meat in the fridge was for :)

    so see your perfectly normal it is all of those well organized, well prepared people that have the problem, I call it multi tasking ;) never mind i dont finish most of the tasks ..

    Belinda

  • LOL - How do you inspire such great comments? 

  • Our live are a quilt! {v]

    God Bless - Dale

  • I'm just as flaky but younger and no kids.

  • There's been a good many quilts made in my home. The fav is the heavy jeans quilts made from discarded jean material. Hey, 5 boys, plus mom and dad. That's a lot of jeans. As for the jerk... he is not a reflection of the good people I know that went to that church. I just don't know how they tolerated the phoney. I spotted it upon meeting him. But then, I wasn't one of the parishioners he was trying to smooth-talk.

  • I just finished a project! I'll probably never do it again. I expected, at the very least, the heavens would open and the Angels would sing Halleuia choruses.

    The reality is a little disappointing.

  • Ha ha!  I've been so wrapped in meditating on books I was studying that I'd forgotten breakfast and lunch!  It's not flaky, I don't think--but rather it's becoming so absorbed in some project in which your thoughts are sent out to that project with such intensity or focus that the trival things (such as food, heh heh) simply no longer matter.  Until someone reminds you and suddenly your stomach growls!  Heh!

  • a couple of my best friends quilt.  it's such a cool art skill.  i'm planning a t-shirt quilt for my daughter but need to get her to give up the tshirts, first...

    would be lumpy if i did it with her still wearing them.

  • I have to agree with John - I can get so absorbed I often forget to eat not flaky at all.

  • I can do latchhook and that's about the extent of my craftyness.  Cross stitch is nice and my mom is a seamstress and has tried on a few occasions to teach me the talent but I can't sit still long enough to care.  I am far to hyper and fidgety for that.  Actually fidgety isn't the problem because you are constantly using your hands....but you know what I mean!  Thanks for the kudos on the weight loss.  I am trying like heck to stay focused!  :+)

  • I am glad you aren't distracted when it comes to CERTAIN things...

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