Jan. 12th, 2004

Craftiness

Jan. 12th, 2004 12:06 am
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This evening I decided to go into my fabric cabinet (a challenge, there are two large object stored in front of it at the moment :() and get several stacks of quilt blocks I've not yet gotten around to assembling into tops. (Tops take up less storage space than piles of loose blocks, plus you don't lose the blocks once they're in the top, so every so often I like to convert blocks to tops--although I'm not sure why I did it tonight, winter is for hand quilting, warmer weather is for piecing.) So, I got out 20 blue and yellow star blocks, 49 black and white blocks from an exchange, 52 rose and green blocks from another exchange, 64 hand-pieced Dresden plate blocks that have been there for over ten years, and nine hand-qppliqued red and green rose sampler blocks. And I looked at them, and I guess I'll put them away tomorrow because I'm not about to assemble them until I find the fabrics I got to sash and border the 52 rose and green blocks, and those are somewhere deep in the fabric cabinet, probably on the side I can't open at the moment!

It's okay, maybe I just wanted to look at them :). One of these years I'll actually sort out the fabric cabinet.
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Okay, this definitely confirms my geekdom, but I am just getting a huge kick out of looking on top of my monitor and seeing the Legion of Superheroes up there! I was a big comic book fan as a kid. In general I was a Marvel fan, but always had a fondness for that one DC book, the Legion of Superheroes. Maybe because they were supposed to be teenagers, maybe because of the very odd superpowers they came up with (Matter-Eater Lad?), maybe because there were so damn many of them.

These are tiny little figures, maybe 3 1/2" high, but the cool thing is that they are the originals--the ones I used to read about as a kid in the early to mid 70s. Phantom Girl with the great big letter "P" on the front of her costume--not even a stylized letter P, like Superman's S--this is just a plain old letter P. What were they thinking? The faces are flat with the features drawn on, so that they really do look a lot like the comic books images. I hope they continue making this series.
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