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
it was worth it. it glows.
ReplyDeleteCertainly worth the effort...this looks wonderful and we can appreciate all of the work.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip too about piecing the circle.
You have a lot of patience. Redonculus amount of patience???
Jacky xox
Deanna, thank you. I'm starting to get excited about this whole magic diary business now that this hurdle's been jumped!
ReplyDeleteThanks, 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!!!
ReplyDelete*smile*....methinks patience.
ReplyDeleteJacky xox
It doesn't seem redonculous to me hehe! It's a perfect circle - Hugs Nat
ReplyDelete"Redonculous" is a fun word...
ReplyDeleteWhatever you decide for your little circle to be...
I think it was worth all the work. Looks fabulous!
<3
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 : )
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Sandra in AZ
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.
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful...all your efforts have paid off! Those tools of the trade...all lined up...GREAT!
ReplyDeleteand...why do we have to choose what it is this early on...hmmmm....love it.
Shishi
a GREAT post for me to read....
ReplyDeleteam beginning to love the problem solving more than anything.
Nat, that circle's as perfect as it's ever going to be!
ReplyDeleteMarie, redonculous just sort of lightens things up, doesn't it? ha. And thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, 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!
ReplyDeleteJeannie, 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!
ReplyDeleteThank 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.
ReplyDeleteOh 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.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting how we can't always see the effort that something takes? It's looking strong and confident.
ReplyDeleteit is perfect and so just right. it was worth the effert my friend! lyndax
ReplyDeletelove your "operations" going on here. has me laughing. and a great new word for today. and still love the dots.
ReplyDeleteDeb, 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.
ReplyDeleteI quite like lop sided on lop sided lol but this does look fabulous never the less lol
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lyn--there'll be plenty of lop-sidedness in other parts of this, I'm sure! Ha.
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