Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The background processes

I would just like to publicly state that I am still working on the quilt. Yay persistance! Boo lack of new content. It's hard to spiral out and do fantastical new projects when I've got the constant grind of hand sewing holding me down. Which isn't a *bad* thing-- stable "creative" work. It just means I'm limited in some acceptable ways.


(you can see the backing fabric to the left, the black binding on the hex tiles, and the blue binding for the quilt)


Have 10 of 19 hexes sewn up, though none of snaps on them yet. I've just now finished tying each quilt top hex to it's stuffing/backing with some basic floss. This means I can at least throw it around like a retarded (pin free) blanket. Need to either machine quilt it or hand sew the binding to the back now... am... not clear on which one to do... will I ever machine quilt it? Can I do it after the binding? I continue to learn a number of things from this... Have I mentioned that the next time I will be THROWING MONEY AT THE PROBLEM and hiring someone else to quilt the damn thing? (making the top is fun! this part... not so much... there's a place in Fremont I randomly stumbled into which I might use...)

Also, the plants are still sort of growing. I'm realizing that I have not yet found the balance of when/how much to water them yet. Many of my dear sweet green babies have yellowing/sad/dead lower leaves/branches. I think that means I'm wantering them too much... but they get so wilty so fast! I can't help but give them more water! It makes me think of a small child who throws a temper tantrum to get candy, always gets what they want, and is slowly becoming obese. I need to be more strict!

That hasn't stopped some of them from thriving though! Cucumber progress!

Also a number of smaller jars/experiments are... continouing to not die. The middle jar here is carrots. Hee hee! (on the left young mint and on the right older parsley)


Am enjoying myself. Already have ideas of how to do it better next year...

2 comments:

  1. My pea plants (I did regular and sugar snaps) got yellow and wilty. I think it might be because I picked everything and they don't want to grow anymore, but I was reading somewhere that the soil might have mold or root-rot or something.

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  2. I was under the impression that picking everything was good for the plant- that it inspired further growth. I'm a fan of the root-rot idea... almost all of my jars are non-draining... I added rocks to the bottom of most and the ones that don't have the rocks appear to be doing the worst.

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