little pin pricks

[incandescens]

It is very annoying, when you are assembling four patchwork blocks to stitch together, to realise that one of the four blocks is off-kilter with the other three. It involves picking it apart and restitching it.

But it is admittedly better to realise it at this point than at the point when it is sewn into the middle of a quilt and would be rather harder to remove.

If the weather is nice tomorrow, I will take a long healthy walk. If the weather is bad, I will stay inside. The forecast is not in favour of long healthy walks, unless one really wants to get wet in the process.

---

An excerpt from "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus"

ii Gloria

Praise the wet snow
falling early.
Praise the shadow
my neighor's chimney casts on the tile roof
even this gray October day that should, they say,
have been golden.
Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
Praise
god or the gods, the unknown,
that which imagined us, which stays
our hand,
our murderous hand,
and gives us
still,
in the shadow of death,
our daily life,
and the dream still
of goodwill, of peace on earth.
Praise
flow and change, night and
the pulse of day.

-- Denise Levertov

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Condolences! (The only sewing I did today was a failing seam on the spouse's pants. It was just beyond a part I had already stitched, which irked me. But that section is now quite sewed up and should not come undone without more vigorous effort than is likely.)

[incandescens]

I wouldn't be doing it, except that if I didn't fix it now, it would be permanently off-kilter in the rest of the quilt, and my sense of perfectionism would nag at me forever.

[archangelbeth]

*nods sadly*

...I wrote 1K wuuuuurds today! Split between two stories, but hey. >_> I will probably have to go back and edit them later. Right now I'm feeling terribly like everything I write is flat and bland, or the interesting bits aren't actually important to the plot or something. *facepalm*

[incandescens]

(hugs) At least you wrote more than I did, because I wrote 0 words . . .

[archangelbeth]

A Stitch in Time is worth Nine(hundred? thousand?) words!

[incandescens]

I do feel for you on the "flat, stale, and unprofitable" front, though. Lots of sympathy. Maybe you need some retail therapy?

[archangelbeth]

We wound up going to the Boston Museum of Science, the Lighting Tether. Have we ever dragged you there? We really must, if we haven't. You have GOT to see the Theater of Lightning.

[incandescens]

You have taken me there! It was fantastic. :)

[archangelbeth]

Oh, good!

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I used a fabric that I suspected wouldn't be up to my standards and now that it's nearly done, I'm unhappy with it. Unfortunately, I'm not ripping all the way back to replace it. I may applique over it in the end, though.

[incandescens]

Sympathy. I hope it didn't take up too much of the design.