The Ides of May

Just finished a project that was two years in the making. Athena and I started this small quilt almost two years ago now. We bought the fabric, cut out, and pieced all the squares together in late May of 2003, right before I moved from Tulsa to Savannah. We actually did 90% of the work... all I had to do to finish it up was machine quilt and finish the binding.

I did the quilting a couple of months ago, and Mom and I (mostly Mom) finished up the binding while she was here visiting. I think it turned out pretty nice.



It is 24 inches square, so it's pretty small, but made a great quick project. OK, so it did take 2 years to complete, but the amount of time that actually went into it was only a couple of days. I just lack focus people! :)


In other exciting news, I think The Cacophone is finally going to wrap production this week (*knocks on wood*). After suffering some major setbacks last week, the cast and crew is at it again tonight shooting one of the final major scenes of the movie. I did some cacophone repairs over the weekend, created a banner, and made a faux sandbag out of burlap (filled with vermiculite so they could drop it on an actor's head). And did I mention Kris shaved his head? I can't say I'm terribly pleased, but I guess if it will help this thing to be finished, I will put up with it.

May.04.05 at 12:11 AM

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05.04.2005 at 12:21 AM

tim writes:

awesome! so when can we expect it to be released on VIDEO DEE VEE DEE?!

wick-i-wick-i-wack...

05.04.2005 at 06:03 AM

Ma' writes:

Your quilt is lovely. That's one thing I doubt I'd ever be able to do...I can't even draw a straight line, nevertheless SEW one. Nive work.

Now, I'm wondering just HOW Kris's shaved head is supposed to help finish the film??? Was it just taking him entirely too long to arrange his coiffeur in the mornings? Is he playing a character in the film? Did he just need to do something drastic to change his mindset?

I think he's pretty cute bald...He's NEVER had so little wool on his pate...he was born with a headfull of blond hair. I think it is a good thing, tho', that he's not as skinny as he was a few years back...he's got a nice little round head, now! How Funny!!!

05.04.2005 at 06:04 AM

Ma' writes:

ps Is he still crutching it?

05.04.2005 at 02:00 PM

diane writes:

Kris is off the crutches, but still wearing the aircast.

He shaved his head to be in the film - the guy who was playing the character "Ferguson" has a shaved head and could not be there on Monday when they were shooting, so Kris was appearing as Watkins playing Ferguson, if that makes any sense.

And the movie will be done when it's done :) probably end of summer. Believe me, you'll know when it's done.

05.04.2005 at 10:52 PM

Dan writes:

Just wondering...

..hmm, probably not!


05.06.2005 at 12:21 AM

Matt Elliott writes:

Now you just need to shave your eyebrows off. I'd shave my head, if it wasn't pointy.

05.06.2005 at 10:56 PM

Mom writes:

Diane also made two couch pillows while we were sewing, which she failed to mention. We got two project done in one afternoon.

And she taught me how to make necklaces the next afternoon. I made two. Now I'm waiting for my Fire Mountain catalog to arrive so that I can order stuff and make more. I've been bitten by the bug.

05.11.2005 at 10:08 AM

jefe writes:

Dang...well I guess we can say that Kris is dedicated. =)

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