Design Wall Monday 3-13-13

Before you do anything, you must look at this traditional quilt short.

http://www.nfb.ca/film/quilt/

I was sick in Las Vegas all last week, see my previous post for some fabulous pictures of the Valley of Fire and some of the Vegas Strip.  And my commentary on being sick in Vegas without the benefit of alcohol.

I do have wonderful plans for quilty work this week.  Not a single thing done last week because we were on Vegas Vacation, but plans for this week are evolving nicely.

I am actually cleaning out my closet.  Which is not my quilt room, which desperately needs it more than the closet, but I did find something I just can't throw out or give to the Purple Cow.  But what it means is that I am that much closer to cleaning up my quilt room.  Yes.  Really.  In this lifetime.  Maybe.

Quilty work planned for this week:

Piece Taking Names:  there are two options since I don't like what she suggested.  She wants them in huge hexagons with blanks between them.  First off I don't have any background orange left since I was an idiot and cut way more strips than I needed before anything even started.  And I just am not a hexie girl.  I really like the boxes though.  I can manipulate light and dark and have the most fantastical piece.  There are 110 triangles so that means there are 55 squares.  Since I am not a math major, I will measure it when I finish it.

Piece Tea Towel Moulin Rouge or  Chat Noir:  That should be fairly easy to do.  I have the plan for Chat Noir. It is not brain intensive, no measuring, no nothing.  Perfect for the liberal arts physics courses I took in one of my degrees.  No math.  Just fabric and a sewing machine and a cup of steamy hot Darjeeling or Dragon's Mane tea or even thick dark New Orleans Coffee and Chicory with plenty of evaporated milk.  Gotta have tea when you are making a tea towel quilt.

Chat Noir and the Moulin Rouge

I have been drooling over the tea towels and the process pieces that the gang over at 15 Minutes of Play are all are showing For the Tea Towel Challenge.  I was certainly wishing I had a tea towel to play with everyone with.  Then.  I remembered that when daughter Carrie graduated from Design School at LSU, she took a 7 week backpacking spree across Europe with a girl friend and a gay guy friend.  That was important because she had just become engaged and he was not going on this wild trip with her.  She brought me these two tea towels from France.  (All I got were these lousy tea towels - kind of thing, you know.)

Anyway, I have these two tea towels.  I love them and never knew what I was going to do with them so I squirreled them away in my sewing room.  Amazingly, I walked in there today and just put my hands right on them.  And you would truly be amazed if you actually saw what my room looked like.  Yikes.


So I was excited.  And I pulled some fabrics.  Chat Love.  And my Cali looks just like that cat on the towel....sort of.  A few more colors here and there.

And Moulin Rouge!  Moulin Love!

So I need a few more fabrics, and maybe a zinger for the Chat Noir one.  Maybe a mousie block.  Definitely more black and more of that terrific deep yellow.  And an orange needs to move over to the Moulin Rouge for sure!

Do you think I should give her one of the quilts when I finish them??????????  Maybe not! We shall see what a good daughter she has become...........


glen