Jan 28
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

More simple circles. It looks like a radiolaria, one of the little planktons with great shells. Really. The shells look like blown glass Christmas tree ornaments of the most baroque and swirly kind. Like Dale Chihuly glass pieces. (A friend of mine who will remain nameless said although she loved the look of his pieces she always fantasized about cutting them loose and turning them into a giant, extraordinarily noisy performance pieces.)

I nearly didn’t make it today. Woke up migraining, and then spent a lot of time fracheting about over the journal quilt. I felt itchy and grumpy, tied to my worktable, and as though I was over-thinking it. I kept having to work on it, instead of just THINK about it, or worse, think about working on it. I’ll post it Jan 31, When January is properly over. Then I get to start over-worrying the Feb page, woot!

February will be Hardware. I don’t have a color, but it’ll be nice to move away from all blue, almost all the time.

I need more fusible web. I used up a roll of soemthing that was great. It fused easily, peeled easiy, and didn’t gum up the needle. I’m using up a roll of wonder-under and it drives me bats. I don’t know if I am over fusing it to the first piece, or under fusing it, or what. I routinely have trouble peeling the backing off and it leaves tons of little paper wisps. It seems to work best if I can fuse the stuff on one day and use it the next. I have been attempting to get around this by throwing the pieces in the fridge or freezer (although at 2 degrees F, I could just wave it out the window) to see if cold helps, which it does. But then just as I put the roll in the trash in frustration, I get three pieces that peel perfectly. So I let the pices stew overnight, and I stew gently myself.