{"id":160,"date":"2006-12-29T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/life-in-quiltmaking-hell\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:41:15","slug":"life-in-quiltmaking-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/life-in-quiltmaking-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Quiltmaking HELL!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All I have been dreaming about today is See’s candy. I had it for lunch and it didn’t make me feel better.<\/p>\n

I got inspired by the QA challenge, “Creative Art Quilt Reader Challenge: \u201cWhat\u2019s in a Name?\u201d, discussed in a recent issue. My idea fits perfectly into my Women’s Work series. The entry is due on March 1 (or thereabouts). I wanted to finish this project by the end of vacation. I have a scanner, so I thought it would be manageable. I’ll add a little techno-quilting wizardry, and some embellishments to the mix, send the thing off and be done with the project. Famous last words.<\/p>\n

I scanned some Michael Miller fabric that I wanted to use (and can’t find more of IRL). When scanning it, I can see the weave and the images aren’t sharp. You can see how it looks at: http:\/\/home.netcom.com\/~jlapac\/WomensWorkFabric6.jpg<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I tried to sharpen it in Paint Shop Pro. No change. I copied it on to paper and then scanned it, but the same problem occurred. I am out of ideas on how to do this except for not using this fabric and trying to scrounge up some copyright free stove and household images somewhere else on the web.<\/p>\n

I have asked some of my smarter friends, but if you have any ideas for how to fix this image (or rescanning tips) or web places for copyright free images, let me know in the comments. Your assistance would be appreciated.<\/p>\n

To console my tattered quilting pride, I have been sewing on and off all day and am making some progress on Serendipity Puzzle.<\/p>\n

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I am at a point where I need to cut a few more of the colored triangles and a bit more of the background. I am waiting until I cut a bit more lavender, some of the yellow stripe and, perhaps, some more of the brown before I sew the remaining blocks together. I want to be able to rearrange the elements within the blocks before I sew them.<\/p>\n

The progress that I made is some kind of miracle considering the way my sewing space looks. My sewing space is small in the best of circumstances (cutting area is about 2.5’x2.5′).<\/p>\n

It has been full of boxes for 7 months due to the neverending construction going on downstairs. This is not ideal for sewing, but manageable. This week DH decided to redo his closet. Now my sewing space looks like this:<\/p>\n

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I am glad I have a space to sew, though.<\/p>\n

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All I have been dreaming about today is See’s candy. I had it for lunch and it didn’t make me feel better. I got inspired by the QA challenge, “Creative Art Quilt Reader Challenge: \u201cWhat\u2019s in a Name?\u201d, discussed in a recent issue. My idea fits perfectly into my Women’s Work series. The entry is … Continue reading “Life in Quiltmaking HELL!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-quiltmaking-challenges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}