Friday, August 5, 2011

redonculous redo



I realize it looks like I haven't changed flying dreams one little bit. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen with this little quartered circle on the also-quartered background. It's been cut out, sewn, ripped, restitched, embroidered, ripped out again, black & white fabric resewn and circles cut out twice, and the whole shebang resewn one or two more times, I forget. And ironed countless times. My sewing tools were laid out like surgical instruments. The underlying problem was a lop-sided circle on a lop-sided square (velvet does that) and it took all this for me to realize that if I stitched some of the quarters together by hand, it would indeed work.


Originally the circle was a moon but then it became an earth. Then back to moon. Now I don't know. It's complicated. And just redonculous. I love that word.


Happy weekend! xo

23 comments:

  1. Certainly worth the effort...this looks wonderful and we can appreciate all of the work.
    Thanks for the tip too about piecing the circle.

    You have a lot of patience. Redonculus amount of patience???

    Jacky xox

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  2. Deanna, thank you. I'm starting to get excited about this whole magic diary business now that this hurdle's been jumped!

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  3. Thanks, Jacky. I don't know if it was redonculous amounts of patience or redonculous amounts of foolishness, but what's done is done at last...yay!!!

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  4. *smile*....methinks patience.

    Jacky xox

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  5. It doesn't seem redonculous to me hehe! It's a perfect circle - Hugs Nat

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  6. "Redonculous" is a fun word...
    Whatever you decide for your little circle to be...
    I think it was worth all the work. Looks fabulous!
    <3

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  7. I think it looooks wonderful !!! love that word "redonculous". Amazing how we learn to go back to the basics of hand-sewing ?? I love it now, circles, nine-patches, etc., alll by hand just gives me the time and "patience" I have always needed and wanted but didn't know it, hahaha : ) wonderful weekend to you tooooo : )
    Blessings, Sandra in AZ

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  8. Well worth the effort. Isn't it funny how our eye fixates on something and drives us batty until we change it? As Deanna said, it glows. Enjoy your weekend.

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  9. This is wonderful...all your efforts have paid off! Those tools of the trade...all lined up...GREAT!

    and...why do we have to choose what it is this early on...hmmmm....love it.

    Shishi

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  10. a GREAT post for me to read....
    am beginning to love the problem solving more than anything.

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  11. Nat, that circle's as perfect as it's ever going to be!

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  12. Marie, redonculous just sort of lightens things up, doesn't it? ha. And thank you!

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  13. Thanks, Sandra! Oh, I feel very much the same as you about handwork -- for some reason, I just kept sewing this up by machine, doing the same thing over & over and expecting a different outcome. Live & learn! Blessings your way, too!

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  14. Jeannie, you're so right. Who would've ever noticed but me? I mean the wonky parts could've been covered somehow, I suppose. It sort of turned into the principle of the thing. Thank you!

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  15. Thank you Shishi -- you're onto something there, why DO we have to decide now? Who says? hehe I really like that -- thanks! That's a good thing to remember next time I go bonkers.

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  16. Oh Grace, well I sure wish you would've been here for a little problem solving brainstorming with me!! You would've probably figured it out right off. I can be an impatient sort depending on the moon and my hormones.

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  17. Isn't it interesting how we can't always see the effort that something takes? It's looking strong and confident.

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  18. it is perfect and so just right. it was worth the effert my friend! lyndax

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  19. love your "operations" going on here. has me laughing. and a great new word for today. and still love the dots.

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  20. Deb, Lynda & Cindy -- thanks for the encouraging words! I've obsessed over it all day today again. Just got semi-caught up with the MD class and saw that whole section on going with distortion instead of fighting it! Oh well....too late now. Unless I tear it out just one more time. Ha.

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  21. I quite like lop sided on lop sided lol but this does look fabulous never the less lol

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  22. Thank you, Lyn--there'll be plenty of lop-sidedness in other parts of this, I'm sure! Ha.

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