Let me get you caught up
by Lesley Gold
A summary of the last 6 months:
1. I moved to Philadelphia
2. I am taking classes at Philadelphia Furniture Workshop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I’m learning to be a woodworker which is totally awesome and raises my badass level to new extremes. I’ve already made a few furniture pieces and I’m very slowly building my hand tool collection. So far I have a Lie Nielson block plane, and in the mail a set of Pfeil chisels, marking knife and a Tite-mark marking gauge. There is SO much to know about woodworking. Hand tools, machine tools, techniques, joinery, understanding wood movement between seasons, grain direction. Ahhhhh. It’s complicated but I have the best teachers in the entire universe and I’m learning so much! Im shocked by my new woodworking vocabulary. Why just the other day I played TENON in Words With Friends and my b-fry was like “what’s a tenon?” and I was like “oh em geeeeee. uh duhhhhhhh mortise and tenon? it’s like totally the most common joint duhhhh” BAM!
The picture above is my block plane that fits into the palm of my hand. My teacher Mario punched my initials “LG” on the side. Isn’t it so cute?
On to quilting… I’ve been quilting again! Over the holidays I made two quilts 70x 70 that I gave away as gifts. I did’t take pictures, but iIll try and get some. Also- I’m working on a giant (90″ x 90″) quilt for the b-fry. Front is pieced and pinned to batting and back. I’ll take some pictures of that as well and post in a bit.
You can expect a lot more blogging consistency from me because i’ve decided to take the next 8 months off from working to build a portfolio for my next step in life…
