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♥Feb. 6th, 2016 // 11:03 am♥
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This year is Quilt Club's thirtieth birthday, and there's some sort of Thing* where one makes a quilt (well, wall hanging more like: A3 sized) on the theme of 30.
I've been noodling around, and so far my not-very-inspiring list includes:
- 30 is the sum of the first four squares, which makes it a square pyramidal number [this would be great if I could find a nice geometric 2D representation of the concept, but I can't]
- Periodic table - zinc [not very exciting; I was trying to remember while we were mucking out and did have a moment of hope that it might be copper or cobalt, which at least give a good colour scheme]
- Anniversaries - pearl [-> oysters -> Whitstable and a nice local connection, but I bet someone else will do it]
- I Ching - Li - fire - clinging "it will be advantageous to be firm and correct, and that thus there will be free course and success. Let (its subject) also nourish (a docility like that of) the cow, and there will be good fortune" [um, ok. The hexagram is at least nicely symmetrical and pretty]
- Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver [that sounds tedious to sew]
Anyone have any better ideas?
* I'm really not sure what sort of Thing it is. I have, from various bits of paper and the website, pieced together the fact that there is an annual competition, and the winner each year chooses the theme of and/or a specific fabric to feature in next year's competition entries. I have found a mention in one place to X having won last year and chosen 'birthday' as a theme in honour of the anniversary. I've also found mention of this A3 30-themed thing, and I'm not sure if that's a refinement on 'birthday' or something entirely separate. And, finally, when I joined I was given a membership pack that included an entry form for the competition, which has a small piece of fabric stapled to it, implying that that's the one that has to be used. The form is dated 2015, but then the membership form I filled in when I joined was dated 2014, so. I shall have to consult Mrs Up The Hill when I see her.
They don't seem to be terribly organised, which I suppose isn't very surprising. I was amused to note that the latest issue of the newsletter contained a piece explaining that there was some confusion about how one signs up for classes, with slightly different instructions available in different places, so here was a definitive set. It was, naturally, different to the set on the sign-up table, was generally very poorly written and unclear, and the waffly bits that described what the back end process was that required these specific instructions be followed made it logically clear that there was a really really important step missing from them. I may make rewriting it properly and clearly into a priority when I take over. Oh, wait, I decided not to do that. Good foresight there. |
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