My Own Cathedral Windows

Cathedral Windows, whether in churches or quilts, are to be admired from afar. With respect and awe. Daunted. Dwarfed. Until a kind soul comes along and thrown open the vistas (ha ha) and lays bare the mysteries and secrets of their construction, breaking them down into shards that you can grasp.

Long story short, Chumkie, the kind soul, led a QAL for Desi Quilters on Cathedral Windows. With clear instructions, she taught us, the uninitiated, not one, but three methods of constructing them.

The first was the Orange Peel Method:

This was also my entry to the July'12 Challenge on Desi Quilters which required us to make a quilted item in monochromatic colours. Though it looks funny in the pics, I swear its all green. Ish.

The second was the One seam flying geese method. Here's what I made for my sewing room...

..and thats all the batting waiting to be despatched to members of  'Desi Quilters'..

..and here appears Max claiming yet another quilt as his own !

The third was the traditional method of making Cathedral Windows and thanks to Chumkie's QAL, I am forever exorcised of my fear of them.

Linking this up with Chumkie's Linky Party over at her blog, 'My Favourite Things'. 

May the tribe of the windows multiply! Amen !

I am a Slasher !

Sometimes Life has this horrid habit of slipping a lemon or two in a lovely box of chocolates. Just when you are heady with the taste of something so sinfully yummy and are enjoying it in all its gooeyness and mush, you bite into this wedge of bitter sour lemon and all your senses are thrown out of gear with a mighty jolt ! You are angry, you are hurt and you want to kill someone. Don't. Kill, that is. Slash.

I got a lemon slipped to me yesterday. Or was it two? They say hold your words when you are hurt or angry, for words are like arrows and can't be retrieved to the quiver once shot. So I decided to put my arrows aside and get slashing instead !!

As part of the fun QALs on Desi Quilters, Vanita is doing a Faux Chenille QAL and I thought it was just the thing for my mood right then. There is nothing more meditative than sewing rows and rows (and rows and rows) of parallel lines. It soothes your nerves and helps sort out the things that matter from the garbage in your head. With every line, you sew down whats important in your life..

 ..and then you get out the blades !! Slash ! Slash ! Slash ! Slash away at all the hurt and the anger....

....and voila, you have back your calm mind and a lovely bit of Chenille to boot !

So, go ahead and slash people ! No, no, I mean, go ahead, and slash, people ! It has enormous therapeutic side benefits :-)