Things have gone a little haywire
around here lately. To start with, one of the Meows was taken ill. We found a
little hole in her tummy one morning (I know - eeeks!) and panicked all the way
to the vet. I don't know who was screaming the loudest: Meow, Yummy Hubby or
me. Turned out she'd had a little injury that was infected by a fly.
Surprisingly, we learned that it isn't all that uncommon for cats. But a sick cat is
still a sick cat, and if you've ever had to medicate (or quarantine) a sick cat you
will know that lots and lots of mental and physical strength (and vitamins!)
are required for the owners to not fall sick themselves.
Anyhow, thank goodness Meow and
her humans seem to be settling back into health again (touch wood, fingers
crossed etc), and at least one of her humans is now desperately trying to
rediscover some semblance of routine.
Which was when I realised that
I've lost my creative juice. I don't know where I left it, but it's nowhere to
be seen. Nothing is singing to me in The Office. Fabric is not jumping off the
shelves at me in a haze of ideas. Such bleak, colourless days - ack!
Thank goodness there's the Olympics for some entertainment!
Anyways, I did manage to do a little
cleaning and found a shoebox at the bottom of a storage bin. It's been in there
for a couple of years now, and I'd completely forgotten about it.
Inside this box was a big bunch of fabric
squares:
I remember Yummy Hubby had got me
these on one of his trips. Looking at the selection leaves me wondering about
shop he must have gone into to get them. There's a multitude of different
fabrics in there, some look like they belong on curtains, some on carpets, some
seem like they've been cut of a pretty summer dress, some from a rich brocade
tunic. There're a few precious ones that could have belonged to one of
Cinderella's ballgowns and plenty that could have come off the Queen's tweed
suits. At that time I was fixated with American cotton and Moda etc, so when he
gave me the squares I kinda just looked them over a bit and put them in the
shoebox.
Fast forward to now, and although I
definitely wouldn't turn down offers of Riley Blake and friends, I'm finding
that all fabric has a value, so I'm thinking these squares would make a
truely patchwork patchwork piece.
Like how I imagine patchwork to
be back in the old days. Where blankets were made with true scraps.
The squares all measure
approximately 3.5", and when I say 'approximately' I really do mean
approximately. There're all slightly different. Some of them aren't even
square - just square-ish. But I'm NOT going to bother trimming them all to size. I don't think my sanity can deal with that after all the Meow excitement and what with Ramadhan going on around here.
So I'm just going to piece them
together randomly. And to prove it, I've made a small start, see:
Progress hopefully soon. Till then, have a happy week!
