I think perhaps Burning Writer Flat would be appropriate

[incandescens]

Hellaciously windy and wet this morning while walking to work. Umbrella plastered against my head and shoulders, trousers collecting far too much rain. Then an hour later the clouds were gone and the sky was a beautiful blue. Why could this not have happened an hour earlier?

Yes, yes, I know. That's how it always happens.

Sewed a very basic quilt top this evening after work and before supper. That's the easy and fun bit of the job. The actual quilting and binding is much less fun. This is why quilters often have spare quilt tops lying around waiting to be finished.

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No evil monster's lair in the mountains is complete without a stone tablet announcing the cave's name.

-- from Things I Learned From Reading Journey To The West, http://lnhammer.livejournal.com/113341.html

Comments

[archangelbeth]

...I don't want to burn writers...

[incandescens]

Well, in the sense of burning with inspiration, not actual fire fire...

[archangelbeth]

*is still worried*

[incandescens]

So what would the stone tablet outside your cave say? :)

(Caves are allowed to have palaces inside.)

[archangelbeth]

*ponders*

It would say: DO NOT DISTURB.

[incandescens]

(applauds) Perfect. You win hands down. ;)

[archangelbeth]

*giggles and sweeps a bow*

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Yes, some people are piecers and some people are quilt-ers. I'm more of a piecer too.

[incandescens]

But alas, the quilting must be done as well. Pity the tasks aren't the other way round, then you would have the piecing to look forward to.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Lots of people farm out the quilting and binding, but that has to get expensive. I've farmed out the quilting once on something I didn't know how to handle, it came back beautifully. The 3x3m one, I did by myself and swore never to do again.

[incandescens]

So far I've just been machine-quilting in the ditch along main seams. Not very artistic, and there is the odd bump, but it's manageable. Though it does involve a fair amount of swearing. I've certainly never tried anything near as large as 3x3m, though!

[amethyst-hunter.livejournal.com]

I don't bother with umbrellas anymore...they either fall apart on you, or - if it's thunderstorming (as is typical here in 'ol Florida) - you may as well just put up a big bull's-eye over your head that says "LIGHTNING BLAST HERE". :p (There's a reason this state is known as the lightning capital of the world!)

[incandescens]

Heavens. I suppose I should be grateful that we're just having wind and rain.

[amethyst-hunter.livejournal.com]

Wintertime (for the States, that is) is actually the best time to be down here, weather-wise. It's not too cold, nor too hot (minus a few oddball exceptions here and there - we just had an unseasonable cold spell last week, for instance), and the storms are very far and few between. (Not that it will never storm; it can - I remember we got a storm severe enough to spawn tornado warnings last year at about this time - it's just that you're far more likely to run into one during the summer months. Hooray tropical air.)

[incandescens]

I hope you have a nice calm winter, then. :)