Another UFO Quilted (and a brick!)

Started in 2012.......put aside and forgotten.



Quilted in 2016.......how long will it take me to bind the poor thing?

I am thinking this one will go to Malaki.

As you can see, my quilting is not always straight.  Straight lines are really hard.  Really, really hard.  Really.

Here is the next brick installment for Fayne........this one is way too cute, almost stinkin' cute!

If you see a crab this big, RUN!   And get the BIG pot boiling.

This house must be in India....seeing as the family dog is an elephant!

Bricks

 I don't know why I think I hate doing Applique.  I really do enjoy it  once I get in there doing it .  One of the bricks Fayne brought me was shaped like a house.  And I knew I had some  fabric that looked like tiny bricks.  It was perfect, just perfect!

But the morning was fraught with its own problems.   I must've knocked over one of my ironing water bottles because my floor was covered with water under the  ironing board.   And I lost my glue sticks somewhere along the way.  And until I can find it I can't finish covering the bridge with batting .

I guess what I need to do is to work on some of the other bricks until my glue sticks surface again.  Aughhh.......

I know, I know.  I need to just clean up my room for once and for all, and forget about just the little individual days that I go in there piddling around playing clean up.

 Although, I guess good things want to finish for Shannon's daughter, Caitlynne

 I will have to tell you about Shannon in another post. 

The quilt is made from doilies that Frank's mother crocheted endlessly.   When we moved her from the house in Shreveport we had closets and closets of these things.  I made a very similar quilt for Frank's Aunt Emma after his mother died.  She was so glad to have something of her sister's since all their stuff had been lost in Hurricane Katrina.  I think Caitlynne will like having something her great grandmother made.  

Sometimes these UFOs on my floor have a good purpose.  If I had thrown it out or just finished it and gave it away, I wouldn't have the connection for Caitlynne.

Yes, that is why it pays to be messy and unorganized!

Fabric Covered Bricks

LOL.....I thought EVERYONE had a few fabric covered bricks laying around!  I definitely liked your use for them, Carol!  LOL

I have seen them used for doorstops, but I think she wants to use them as bookends.  I am going to see if Frank has any polyurethane in his collection of odd bits of paint and varnishes.  Yes, he can't say much to me about my quilt room if you have seen his shop..........

I am going to paint the fabric with the polyurethane to make it easily cleaned.  I think it will also protect the stitching, my less than perfect stitches.  I think the doggy turned out nicely.   But I need to learn a few new stitches if I am going to make more.

If you didn't see how I covered the brick, go back one post to ((((THIS))))) one.


Here is the outside cover that has been washed to remove the markers.  If  you use the markers, make sure they are the washable ones. 









I eased the corners and flaps and edges around.  I just used two pins to hold things together until I got the stitching done.  You can see tiny stitches, maybe my grandmother would be proud........nope, she wanted NO stitches showing.

This is as good as it gets, Grandma!

 

He is my finished brick. 


I'm kinda liking it.

A lot.