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 !!

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.