September 2015

Crossroads

Quick notes about the finished quilt: domesticat.net/quilts/crossroadsCrossroads, finished
 by domesticat.
Date: 
8 August 2015 to 13 September 2015
Photoset: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157658201809919

Recipient: 
Jacqi
Pattern: 
60-degree diamonds
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away

Crossroads was intended to be a quick quilt, with an overall color directive from the recipient: dark and midtone blue, brown, and green. Easy enough; I went to my stash and quickly realized I was pulling out a lot of Australian aboriginal fabrics, and made a deliberate attempt to include fabrics from as many parts of the world as possible:

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quilting

About the tonka bean

I've been a bit of an evangelist for tonka beans for some time. I love the scent and the taste, and I don't agree with the FDA's decision to ban them from food. The Atlantic has an excellent article (The Tonka Bean: An Ingredient So Good It Has to Be Illegal) about the allure of tonka beans, and the [asinine] reasons they're banned from food in the US.

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food
cooking

Diaspora

Time gets away from you. It's easy to lose track, even if you're not trying, and -- let's be honest -- I was trying. I can't feign shock or surprise that life moved on while I was dealing with other issues; now all I can do is choose how much of it I want to reclaim, and in what fashion.

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reading