tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post6804244954035074266..comments2023-06-14T07:02:42.733-05:00Comments on Woman of a certain age: Victorian crazy quiltsJulie DeBrandt Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371405317589588583noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post-57343937354323767692010-10-29T10:46:26.046-05:002010-10-29T10:46:26.046-05:00Since I started quilting I have become obsessive w...Since I started quilting I have become obsessive with it--I just discovered CQ and I have started my first project -machine because I'm impatient to see the results but will add details by hand---I don't need drugs to do and think about this work every day--I can quite imagine how those Victorian ladies felt about their handiwork--creativity is a drug all its own---it keeps me sane. JP from NYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post-39576018164061998532010-05-18T20:18:40.684-05:002010-05-18T20:18:40.684-05:00Just started doing CQ. I am really enjoying it. It...Just started doing CQ. I am really enjoying it. It is a nice way to be creative and use several different types of mediums. It was very interesting to read about the start of it. Thank you for the information. Vey interesting.k. nicolehttp://www.bonanzle.com/booths/Hometown_Dealsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post-7765198474891588032009-03-06T05:59:00.000-06:002009-03-06T05:59:00.000-06:00Do you think I could channel the spirit of a CQ-er...Do you think I could channel the spirit of a CQ-er to help me finish crochet-ing a baby blanket that's taken a ridiculous number of my evenings for something so small? I try not to think about the fact that I am essentially making a very pretty vomit landing patch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post-6144361126427635302009-03-05T23:34:00.000-06:002009-03-05T23:34:00.000-06:00I didn't read any negativity or snarkiness in your...I didn't read any negativity or snarkiness in your post, just awe. I too was marveling, envious of the energy and dedication of the CQers. In these days of not going to the office, I am somehow hyper aware of just how short each day is. We recently went for two days with no running hot water...and it was exhausting just to make myself presentable in the morning. So I really don't know how they did it. There probably would have been more CQ-ing if they hadn't won the right to smoke in public.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post-86519988364838420222009-03-05T12:39:00.000-06:002009-03-05T12:39:00.000-06:00Author note:To clarify, I'm quite in admiration of...Author note:<BR/>To clarify, I'm quite in admiration of the women who were able to achieve such feats of artistic muscle. The words fanatical and manic within the context of this post are descriptive and not meant negatively or snarky--that was obvious to me, but maybe not to readers. <BR/><BR/>I see women of that day as an oppressed group grappling with breaking free from the tedium of being stuck in a box. As I looked at those quilts, I could feel the claustrophobia of a society inhibiting a woman's ability to contribute intellectually and artistically. It certainly drove Edith Wharton and perhaps maybe others like Mary Cassatt, out of the country at the time. Don't some "fads" lead to important sociologic changes? Women's Baseball League started as a popular fad...did it lead to women's sports? Maybe. So while I applaud your funny take on my crazy quilters, I defend them as burgeoning feminists and bristle at the notion they were all crackheads.Julie DeBrandt Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371405317589588583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455383937129728039.post-18500262148190347312009-03-05T09:11:00.000-06:002009-03-05T09:11:00.000-06:00Around the same era, medicinal cocaine products, l...Around the same era, medicinal cocaine products, like "toothache pills," enjoyed a surge in popularity. The great doctor of the era claimed that when under the influence of the coca leaf, "...You perceive an increase of self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work....Long intensive physical work is performed without any fatigue..." <BR/><BR/>Crazy quilting? Indeed! Those sistuhs was high.<BR/><BR/>Your great grands will assume your cohorts were on the glue they used. They will marvel at the primitive technology that moved scrapbooking into facebooking. They will die of embarrassment for how long and dextrous their ancestors' arms and fingers were, and how skinny people were a century ago. "I just can't imagine what it would be like to only use 10% of your brain," one will telepath. The other will thought-respond with, "I know. It's like. They were like. So. Wee-ard." And the first will snort sardonically and think, "No surprise they liked Facebook. Duh."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com