The Variation of a HST

As promised, some HST triangle layouts...depicted by midnight cell phone pictures...a feast for the eyes, to be sure. *Note: I was originally just taking the pictures with the intent to remember the layouts for comparison later, which is why I wasn't even caring about whether they were blurry or not. Sorry folks.

These are all shown in the order that I was throwing them up on the design wall:

I had to stop after about 2 hours because I realized I was making myself crazy with the sheer number of possibilities.

So, which layout would you choose?

DWR Dilemma

"What the hell is that?"

That's the weather mapping that is over Orlando today. And no, I'm not in the little white section. Add in the fact that my car is at the shop and you've got a very dreary stuck-inside kind of day. A sewing kind of day!

So Jennifer and I have been working on DWR quilts, and cheering each other on. She's making hers out of Fandango, and I'm taking the opportunity to reduce my scrap bucket. Sadly, that meant that my cutting experience was probably a million times longer than hers, since I had to cut each piece individually.  I got 120 squares out of my tiny scraps without any apparent difference in the volume of the bucket!

I did have to supplement my stacks o' scraps with some yardage too.

Source

So here's where you come in! I'm having trouble deciding on my background fabric. The picture above is a DWR from a class at the workroom so you have an idea of what the final piece will look like.

Should I put my arcs made up of blue/green/grays/black&white prints on this background of the black and white pin dot...

...or this light blue and white pin dot?

Pictures are a little dull in color due to the aforementioned weather conditions, but hopefully you've got an idea of what it will look like. Help a girl out, and let me know what you think!

"Sendin' out an SOS..."

*This post is brought to you by the song 'Message in a Bottle' by the Police. Rock on.

This quilt may look small and cute, my friends, but I took this photo from the 2nd story. That behemoth is 95"x108". I need a kitten for scale. Please feel free to give me a kitten for this purpose. And for cuddles.

So how do I quilt it?! And no, not what design do I quilt on it? I mean literally, HOW do I quilt it. My machine has a whopping 5.5" of throat space. I'm no math whiz, but I do realize that 5.5 and 95 are not the most compatible of numbers.

Things are about to get reaaaaal creative around here.

[Spoiler alert: I've already started quilting it. I've only torn out one chunk of hair so far. And there's only been one major pucker. I need to learn the secrets to perfect basting...did you hear that basting gods?!]

**PS, thanks for all the super nice words about my Winterkist gnoma advent calendar. You guys rock.

Please bear with me, and feedback please

I'm trying to change some things around on here, including the template. However, I'm not the best example of the younger generation being great with technology. So if things are confusing for the next few days, I apologize, I'm probably more frustrated about it then you are :)

So as I'm trying to make this template into what I want I have a few questions. I'd really appreciate if you could just answer them in the comments!

1. Do you usually read your blog posts in some sort of blog reader [ie, Google Reader]?
2. If a blog has a "Read More..." function do you normally click it to get the rest of the post or does that tend to dissuade you from reading their blog?
3. Have you ever clicked on the tags at the bottom of a post to find more posts from that author on HSTs for instance?

Thank you sooo much! :) 

Edited to add: I've been working for a couple hours, changed things around a couple times, and my brain hurts now. Feel free to click over from your Reader and tell me what you think so far. I really like blogs with very simple looks, so that way you can focus on the posts, so that's what I'm going for. Now I need to leave the Interwebz before my head explodes. 

Edited again to add: I went through all my posts and added labels to them, so you can see that on the sidebar if you're looking to find something specific :)