Golf cart- still enjoying the lifestyle, I think we've saved two refueling trips. That's over $160! Seriously, in the month of July I only filled the tank once, we did quite a bit of traveling by cart. The only reason why I had to fill the tank, was to take Stinky to the airport, and I went fabric shopping. We went to the cart drive in movie, didn't go the second one, as Goof didn't want to see a kiddie movie without Stinky. Stinky has been working on his driving skills, he's getting really good, he hasn't figured out how to drive in reverse yet. We got a speed chip for the cart, and now it really flies. I thought 13mph was pretty good, now we go 18mph, and downhill is a scary thing, no regen to slow us down, it's definitely free falling, and it can be scary on some of the paths. I've taken it farther around town than Goof has. I've been having a ball with it.
Sewing projects- still having fun with that. I finished two quilts, Shoe fly is one pattern
Then I worked farmers flowers
I really like how farmers flowers came out, I love the bright, cheerful colors. Plus Stinky claimed Shoe fly for himself. I finished my quilts, but almost lost my patience with my friend and her indecision with color and block placement on Shoe fly. Luckily that was finally done, but the bad news, she's not happy with the yellow colors available right now, and we have her farmers flowers in squares, and partial blocks in a gallon ziplock bag on my fabric shelf. We readdress it in the winter/spring when there will be more yellows she likes. I don't blame her, but dang it, there is not much I can do, and sometimes I feel really frustrated because I'm the one doing the sewing, and most of the money spent in materials is mine. I'm feeling this because the newest project is a tough one for me. She had found a quilt book with some wonderful flower appliques. I looked at the book, and said okay let's jump in, of course we have a new technique to learn. Fabric shopping went along with this project, we made a day of fabric shopping. I programmed the Garmin, took it in her car, as Goof had mine, and I wanted to just go home. No wonder she preferred me to drive. She's got driving issues, fear of expressways, windy small country roads, busy intersections, fear of not knowing where she's going. It didn't help that 3 of the locations I found through Yahoo directory, were not what we wanted, and finally the last location directed us to a quilt shop in the historic downtown area of Newnan. Of course she didn't like that either. We found the shop, she oooohhhed and awwed. I was impressed, but not that impressed. I looked at the quilt books trying to see if anything called my attention, picked up a set of block placement tags, and some fabric. Not a big purchase. She was disappointed because I did not go hog wild in there. Well I don't know what you are thinking lady, perhaps we need to discuss the amount of fabric we are planning to buy, and who pays. I was just feeling like I'm footing the bill for the quilts, and getting token amounts back. Obviously if I feel like this I should be open and honest. 'Hey, I feel like I'm paying for 75% or more of the quilts and I'm doing all the work, and you are just here to pick fabric colors and placements, and argue with me about my choices because they aren't yours!' I know that's not the best way to say it. But I get frustrated at times. Don't talk to me about techniques, you don't sew and I'm the one going to classes, ordering sewing feet, and stuff. So anyways much money has been spent in the last two weeks, and this is what I have so far. I was pissed off, because she gave the impression of dissatisfaction with the look of the block. It was my first one, and obviously I had to figure out what the hell I was doing.
I am going to try it again, with straight stitching instead of satin stitching around the flowers. Also don't give me fucking bullshit about how circular or even the pieced flowers are not. What do you not understand, it was the first fucking try. No kidding the colors aren't placed right, I grabbed a few pieces and threw them together to get an idea of what I was facing. Well anyways when this is to be done, there will be three quilts. One for me, she gets one and her mother in law. Yes, I'm making three of the same quilt. I know I will most likely need a couple of drinks after each session where she has to chose which colors she wants in each flower and what neutral background colors she wants. I may tell her to shove it, and say too bad, make it yourself, or here's a check for your money spent, but if you want one, you take what I give you or nothing at all. I have a hard time waiting for someone to decide the tiny details. If I am sewing, give me a bone, and hurry up with at least one grouping so I can get started, it's awful boring watching someone mutter to themselves about what colors they like, and whether it is complementary or not. I admit, I never took a class about color in college. There were times when I fell asleep in Art History appreciation. It was a requisite! Alright then, enough of my rant for today. More tomorrow!
