More Quilts From the Corner

On Tuesday I was hitting the deep and dark recesses of the corner.  I found three more.  Count em, three.  I thought I was finished finding more quilts back there.

One was a Mystery Quilt from the Quilt Corner, wow, many many years ago.  Like 2004 or 2005 even.  It is a top but it needs one more outside border.  So I pulled a fabric that probably came from the shop that long ago!

The second one is one of the very first improv quilts I ever made!  I think it was the very first, come to think of it.  It will be a great kids quilt.  The appliqué technique is not that great, but the idea is still cute.  It needs a backing and a quilt bit of meander quilting to get it finished up.

I guess there is little chance Carrie will like it!  Maybe I will send it to the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Raffle this year.  In that case I would need to put a larger border on it and make it a lap size.  Maybe some improv zig zags from The Quilt Lady!!


And the third one was a group of churn dash blocks that The Sassi Stripper Guild made for me. We did blocks for everyone's birthday that year.

I was a charter member of that guild when the Quilt Corner put the group together.

And I was president for 3 years after that.

The State of the Corner Quilts

Corner Quilts are those who live in the corner of my room.   The same corner in which I keep finding more quilts.

So far I have fifteen quilts and one wall hanging to find backings for and then Quilt.

And I have  six to put bindings on.

You might think that's all the quilts I have in waiting but it's not.  I have five more quilts that need the binding sewn down.

AND......I have four waiting in line to get quilted.

Yeah....I know the next question.  Why am I sitting here posting when I should be whittling that stack down??????

I also have some really crappy quilts and hangings that I was learning stuff on.  Like the first time I fused fabric together.  Or the first (15 or so) times I did free motion quilting myself.  mostly what I did was to jump in and do it and figure out what I did wrong later!

Actually that is a good way to work sometimes.  You are not bound by "rules".  You know what it SHOULD be, and you know pretty much how to get there.  But you don't know all the rules yet.

And when you do get the rules, whether from a person or a book/class, you have some experience already.  You can say, OOOOOHHHHHH!  That's why that didn't work!

I think I will take those pieces and do some small things to Abandon.  Remember Art Abandonment?   It might just be a great way to get rid of some of the good parts of bad work in a fun and creative way!

In fact, see that delightful chicken quilt on top?  It may become 15 journal covers!  I was never really happy with the way it was turning out.  The fusible I used is thick and stiff.  The quilting is yucky, I was trying to work on the old Megaquilter on the big frame.  The tension disks were really screwed up the whole time I owned it.  The I took it off and tried to fight it on my Husqvarna 930E.  I should have just thrown it out a million times ago.

I did use a corner of an old lemon quilt to cover a brick.  

Maybe one day we can all share our failures, and it will make us closer and we can sing Kumbaya while we toss them into the furnace !!