The term Quilt Bee is used in the Austin Area Quilt Guild for a small group within the 600+ member Guild that meets regularly to sew together. I coordinate the Bee that I'm in, so I'm officially a Beekeeper.* Our Bee is called the Material Girls because we range in age from about 25 to 40, rather than the 55-65 that is prevalent in the Guild as a whole. Yes, I'm not the only one!
So I arrived at the Bee meeting Wednesday night with a jumbled pile of folded fabric and quilt blocks in various stages of being disassembled - which meant that my first step for the evening was to sort everything back out.
Someone asked what I was working on. I said "A disaster." I was prompted for more details. I said "Well, I've changed my mind so many times on the design that it's a nightmare, so I'm starting over."
I was again prompted for more details.
It took me a few minutes to realize that these people actually want to hear that the pattern I tried first was called Roman Coin (not Rail Fence) but that I didn't have enough range of values to get the effect I wanted, that I had tried widening the middle stripe within the block to allow the larger scale prints to show up more effectively but ended up hating it, and that I was now disassembling those blocks with only 11 days to make the whole quilt so I can take it to Colorado for my nephew.
I had spent so much time with "normals" ;) that I had completely forgotten the Bee's purpose is sharing an obssession!
The secondary benefit this time was that S. was bored and ripped out a bunch of seams for me in order to procrastinate her own work. Hurray!
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* This makes me excessively happy for reasons evident to folks who have seen Eddie Izzard's routine on beekeepers.
Comments (2)
An even better Izzard link, for this purpose, is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195753/quotes -- see the first entry.
Posted by UnwiredBen | October 8, 2004 9:06 PM
...and a little further down in Google, I find this link: http://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/glorioustranscript.html#covered
Posted by UnwiredBen | October 8, 2004 9:07 PM