My 4th of July weekend seems to have extended itself, with some more "lacy fireworks" <g> Today, in the mail, I got my pages of Viele Gute Grunde, Part II. Actually, in a way, it's part II and III, since it comprises both "stitches without gimp" and "stitch in the stitch" (sections B&C of projected 5 sections)...
When I consulted a German e-friend about the forthcoming IOLi Convention workshop I'll be taking with Lohr, she said that there were two versions, both of which could classify as a "Snowflake Quilt" (the official title of the course); one was, essentially, Binche grounds, the other was an "update" -- same or similiar grounds, but with an extra gimp "meandering"(she's a regular student of Lohr's)... Another friend (in US this time), who'd seen the book, thought the part with the meandering gimps was very interesting, and that I'd have fun at the workshop, if that's what it was going to be about. To both, I said that since I'd had no experience of Binche at all, the "plain vanilla" would, in all likelihood, keep me on my toes throughout the course. And that I had no interest whatsoever in experimentally meandering gimp anyway...
Well, I took one look at the book, and knew I'd *lied* <g> Yes, there are a few which I can "pass"... But, never in my entire 53 yrs of existence, have I experienced such an all-consuming *greed*; "mine, mine, all mine, I *want*" was my overall response to most of them... The closest I ever came to the same feeling was when, as a 10yr old, I saw Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and wanted to "keep it" (long before videos, which permit one to; I now do have a copy of it <g>)
The class description says one will make "no less than 6, and up to a 100" samples (apparently, they're all triangular, and joined to the next one, with the gimp delineating the triangles)... The "trick" will be to combat the greed; to start slow -- with the "plain vanilla" -- so as to accustom oneself to the rhythm and to the "diagram convention". And then to *choose*... Not only between the various ones in each section, but between "do I continue to design my own stuff, or do I just spend the rest of my life adding to the sampler?"
Yours, see-sawing between being as happy as a dog with two "teils", and being frightened of what temptations the next two sections might bring...
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