Sunday, March 1, 2009

Embellishing -- when is enough enough?

I am almost finished the final piece for the library exhibit. There are still two places where I think it needs a bit more embellishing. I am giving myself a deadline of 11 a.m. to finish that. Then I quilt a few lines, put on the backing and hanging corners and am done. Enough is enough!
Yesterday Alissa called and asked me to join them for lunch and a trip to Fabricland. They picked me up and instead of going out for lunch, we went to their place. And it was much nicer than going out would have been. A simple lunch of delicious soup, put together your own salad, a cup of coffee and pastry. Lovely. Then Alissa and I went to Fabricland. She was looking for a fabric to make a cover for a night table for Ora's room. She found this lovely polyester suede. They have a range of colours which got me thinking about the two chuppot I am going to be making.
She made her purchase and then brought me home and we cut the fabric using my rotary cutter. The fabric has quite a bit of stretch in it so it was a little stressful trying to get the measurements done. Which got me thinking that maybe I should rethink using it for the chuppah. Dupionni has a tendency to fray quite easily but at least it stays put. And if I immediately zigzag the cut edges, dupionni will be fine. On the other hand, if I iron interfacing to the suede...
After Alissa left, I called Shaked who had called me earlier for some help with a translation. We translated, ate pizza, and talked well beyond my bedtime (8:30...) That makes two "late" nights in a row because I was at Yunkie and Mindy's Friday night. (I whipped up oven mitts for them.)
So this morning I am finishing the embellished piece, then consulting with Stephen and Di about their chuppah. I will probably leave for the library at about 3:30 and who knows what time we'll finish hanging if we're only starting at 5? I hope not too late. Three late nights in a row is a bit much for me. I'm such an old lady.

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