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Project Finish & Falling Shelves

by CZeitler

While sorting through bags of random beads I separated out the black, and similar to black, tube beads to fill in the raven image I painted late last year. I love how it turned out, however it took me several months to decide how I wanted to frame/mount this piece. I decided on purchasing a miniature flat canvas from dollar tree and gluing the excess fabric semi-taught around the back of the canvas. This allows the piece to be secured to the canvas, yet it can easily be removed if I decide to use another method in the future. I will be low-key on the lookout for a frame that I may be able to use in the future to place this behind glass. I cannot express how happy I am with how this has turned out!

On a completely different note, one morning I was allowing myself a bit of a lie in when I heard a loud noise from upstairs. I was concerned that my new-ish roof had collapsed, a critter got into the house, or something equally as horrific…not quite. The plastic shelves I had ordered about 3 years ago from amazon had decided that they no longer wanted to stand. Of course this was the one room I considered ‘finished’ and had not planned to make major changes to. I laughed to myself and decided that I would deal with that once I had completed my projects on the first floor. It has been almost a week and I still have not started to assess the damage. I did make significant progress on the projects I have on the main floor, and hope to get to the second floor in the next couple of weeks.

Until next time, live life A Little More Abstract!

Summer (Crafting) Challenges

by CZeitler

Each summer seems to go by faster and faster as they years progress. This year I am going to focus on making sure that I have Fun and accomplish some of my crafty tasks that I would like to do. Part of having fun is making sure that I go on what Julia Cameron calls ‘Artist Dates’ each week. Yesterday I went to the beach to collect pretty rocks. I discovered that my water shoes rub on my bunions, it’s still foot numbingly cold in the water, and that I really enjoy listening to the waves crash against the shore. I am considering making some kind of quilt to memorialize this summer of adventure (hopefully). If you are looking for some kind of a challenge this summer there are plenty of opportunities.

I am not sponsored by any of these organizations, however these are a few that I have discovered.

Tour De Fleece is going to occur this July while the Tour De France is happening. The facebook group can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/447931545237090/ and there are plenty of fiber sellers that can provide you with their kits if you google Tour De Fleece. I know this as a spinning event, however you could easily do any kind of fiber craft.

Similar to this a Sewist found out about Tour De Fleece and decided that they wanted to do a Tour De Fabric: https://www.quiltnlearn.com/quiltalongs

If you don’t like those parameters there always seem to be various Crochet alongs, knit alongs, quilt alongs, sew alongs, etc. Perhaps you want to go to X number of retreats this summer (1 is a number), or you want to challenge yourself to creating/finishing a piece this summer. Whatever your challenge I hope that you are able to make progress toward getting it done.

As a ‘Photo Tax’ I have made progress…okay I started…quilting a quilt top for a family member. She made the top and asked me to do the quilting. I almost have the center motif done, hopefully she likes it when I am done.

Live Life a Little more Abstract

Sometimes the Answer is No

by CZeitler

I know that it has been a month since I last posted. This past month has been a period of time where I end up having problems with library patrons, apparently some kind of rodent decided to chew a wire in my car, and the bannister leading upstairs decided to shear off at the metal. However, I still managed to go to Herkimer NY to check out the Herkimer ‘Diamond’ Mine with a friend of mine.

I have still tried to be productive, I did have a single person come to my fiber prep class. They were signed up for my spinning class, however, they got the flu and had to back out. I have several batts ready to be spun for sale, as well as some yarn I spun. There is always something to do. I’m trying to sew up some microwavable potato sacks. There is no one signed up for my Saturday Class, I’m looking at that as a way for me to take my time and relax for a day.

I did find out that hexagons are not working very well as an easy English Paper Piecing bowl, so I am going to have to try Pentagons next. I’ll use the hexagons to make some awesome pincushions instead.

I hope that the next week or so find you having an amazing time, and remembering that there is no happiness without some sorrow. Remember to Live Life a Little More Abstract!