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Delectable Mountains Block - I still suck at math

9/27/2021

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My Dandelion Quilt posts so far:

Design
Sky and Wishies
Pieced Dandelions
Delectable Mountains Block
Bear Paw
Barrister's Block

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My Dandelion Quilt - Barrister's Block

9/26/2021

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I am working on the bottom of my Dandelion Quilt, and feel like I'm "in the weeds" both figurally and figuratively!  But first, here are the Dandelion Quilt posts so far:
Design
Sky and Wishies
Pieced Dandelions
Delectable Mountains Block (math) *
Bear Paw
Today, I'm working on the very bottom row of the quilt: the Barrister's Blocks! 
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"Whatcha doin'? Procrastinating? Can I help? Here, I'll sit on your work; now you can't do anything!"
* Observant readers will notice that the Delectable Mountains Block is not yet sewn, so expect another post about that soon.  

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The Joys of Having Mended

9/13/2021

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In Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, Fanny's sailor brother visits while on shore leave and regales the family with the rigors of life at sea.  Henry Crawford, a wealthy loafer, reflects as he listens...
He longed to have been at sea, and seen and done and suffered as much. His heart was warmed, his fancy fired, and he felt the highest respect for a lad who, before he was twenty, had gone through such bodily hardships and given such proofs of mind. The glory of heroism, of usefulness, of exertion, of endurance, made his own habits of selfish indulgence appear in shameful contrast; and he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!
He toys with these fantasies for a few minutes, before someone mentions hunting, and he finds is "as well to be a man of fortune"! 

Per Austen's delicate genius, she tucks deeper meaning into the syntax of her sentences than the nouns or verbs: savor the careful past-perfects in this paragraph.  Henry Crawford doesn't actually want to experience privations or work hard or prove his mettle; he wants to "have done" so!  In the past.  He doesn't want to build character, he wants to be on the other side of that building project, looking back with self-congratulation at what a fine man he's made of himself. 

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Acid Trip Quilt - Cubist Yin-Yang

9/10/2021

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I was originally calling this quilt "Pick-Up Sticks/Acid Trip", but as I work on it, my pick-up sticks inspiration is fading, while the acid trip associations are getting stronger. 
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playing with color-blocking
Incidentally, I have never dropped acid, but I've talked to people who have, and been told the feeling is like a mix of synesthesia, emotional vastness, and that strange hallucinatory feeling of being very tired and jet-lagged and hungry, while listening to On The Floor at the Boutique rather loud... which I have experienced.  I was so happy and floaty, and certain noises made my heart jump and my brain twist, and the beat-drop was like jumping off a high diving board and never hitting water.  It was a very cool feeling.  But I wonder: why drop acid if you can feel awesome just by running yourself ragged and exposing yourself to funky sounds...? My method doesn't fry the brain or get you sent to prison (although the risk of being taken advantage of while you're out-of-it is about equal). 
Anyway, I'm calling it the Acid Trip quilt, now.  Here are the posts, so far:
1. String Piecing (Pick-up Sticks/Acid Trip)
2. Pick-up Sticks/Acid Trip coming along

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Fun Updates

9/8/2021

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In no particular order, nor any particular relevance to this blog...

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