i’m starting to like my leftover projects more than their originals
Took me ten days to make this — pretty fast for me. I’ve started thinking of it as my end of summer quilt journal. I quilted the titles of all the books I read over the last ten days (ten — but three of them were picture books), and quilted the names of all my kids, lists of some of the things I did (made jam, drank lavender lemonade) or saw (a goldfinch, wildflowers) or heard (frogs), and recorded some nature occurrences (full moon, hurricane). I made a playlist on Spotify of all the songs that had a connection to either one of the books I read, a patch of fabric, or I movie I watched while sewing (“The Last Jedi,” “This Beautiful Fantastic,” “Mystic Pizza”). There’s a line in the musical, “Quilters,” that talks about how much the quilt knows about the person who made it. I get that.
Wow, you read 10 books AND made a quilt? You are amazing, woman! And that's what I call jumping in the deep end as far as the free-motion quilting goes. Great job! There's a musical called Quilters? How have I managed to miss that?
@margonaut Thank you so much! I pretty much just read and quilted for 10 days. Plus, three were picture books and three were mysteries — once I start a mystery, I usually can’t put it down. I’ve quilted words into my quilts before, but this was definitely way beyond my others — especially because I misspelled two words and had to rip them out (one of them twice because I had actually spelled it right the first time). It’s not a huge quilt either — maybe 60 x 64.
@margonaut Oh, and the Quilters musical came out in the 80s maybe? I think I saw it when I was still living in Ohio. Or it’s possible I saw it as a high school production after we moved to Virginia.
@margonaut What’s most embarrassing is what the words were — “beginning” (problem with all those “n”s) and “hurricane” (left out the “e”). I guess there’s a reason I was only 10th in the eighth grade spelling bee.
August 15th, 2020
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