Progress & A drawing
First a progress report on my goals for the week:
- Structures #53 Binding (3 hours).
- Structures #55 Finish quilting (10 hours [Almost done quilting - 2 hours left]) + Binding(3 hours).
- Structures #56 Sewing (10 hours) + Basting (1 hour) + Quilting(16 hours) + Binding (3 hours).
- Photograph quilts (digital), order slides from digital.
- Ship quilt to Form not Function. Show opens Jan 13th.[Completed!]
- Actually mail my stuff to Art Quilts at the Sedgwick like I said I would do last week (it’s almost ready).[Completed!]
- Ditto for sending things to the curator for my solo show.
- Mail invitations to Quirk Gallery Show in Richmond that opens on Jan 6th.[Completed!]
- Send lecture proposal to Front Range Contemporary Quilters.[Completed!]
- Cut & piece quilt top for my son.
Most of the business stuff is done so I can spent my week off doing the fun stuff. Except I have to add another couple tasks because Modern Postcard is having a sale that end saturday at midnight [thank you Alyson for the reminder!]:
- Re-Photograph quilt for the postcard (This quilt was completed before I got my wonderful digital camera (Nikon D-70) so I have a slide but I need a high quality digital for the printing. Scanning the slide won’t give me the detail I want for the postcard).
- Design postcard.
- Order Postcard for solo show by 12/31.
Thank you everyone for your encouragement on reaching this goal of entering Visions. You are all the greatest!
I learned this skill of estimating time at work. We have to give estimates for writing software. Generally management ignores the estimates and tells us when to be finished but they still make us do it anyway. It’s really a silly game but that’s the way the industry works. So four years ago I started paying more attention to how long it took me to do things and I’ve gotten fairly good at estimating the quilting tasks. The software, well that’s a lot harder because there are just too many variables that I have no control over.
And since an artist’s post without an image is just not as much fun here is a quick sketch I made yesterday. I stayed late at work to do this. Oh no - this drawing thing is starting to be a habit!
This is a small part of the mess in my cube. Don’t those books look exciting! I need to work on perspective (that laptop is rather messed up) but I’ll get there - I hope!
Posted by Lisa in: Drawings, Goals
Lin said,
December 30, 2005 @ 2:16 pm
LOVE IT! Reminds me of my own desk!
Gerrie said,
December 30, 2005 @ 3:07 pm
I kind of like the drawings where the perspective is not perfect. Much more interesting to me!! I love your work ethic.
Kathleen Pequignot said,
December 31, 2005 @ 5:25 am
Lisa, I have some strange perspective issues that crop up every now and again… no worries. It adds character! Great job!
Lisa Call said,
December 31, 2005 @ 1:41 pm
Glad it doesn’t make you all dizzy. But I still feel I should know how to do perspective right and then on purpose do it wrong. It would feel more accomplished that way!