What happened?

I had am uplifting and inspiring post ready to go and when I pushed PUBLISH the computer and internet ate it.

So here is a less than inspiring post with some great pictures.

I was personally inspired to rust some fabric by (click here)Carol of Quilted Fabric Art......I always want to say Quilted Fiber Art because I think of her as a great fiber artist.

So I pulled the first one out of the vinegar package last night.

Here is the second one I did.  You can see the sawblade I used for the overall color and I poked nails through the fabric.  I think the sawblade sort of overwhelmed the whole piece, but I am not complaining AT ALL!!!!!
 

The rust always thins a bit with the stopping process then the wash with Dawn process.  And then it lightens as it dries.  So you can begin to really see the nail marks on the wet piece I have hung out to dry.  

Suzette of Swooze's Quilts And Tall Tales (yes, she is actually one of the few women taller than me!)  inspired, or rather GUILTED me into finishing some of the 20 quilts I had in the To Be Quilted pile before I strated any new ones.  So here is the tribute I am paying to her, a quilting finish.  

This is from oh, 10 years at least.  The doilies are from Frank's mother, she was a prolific doily maker.  And this quilt will go to our Nephew Shannon's daughter.  His father Gene was Frank's brother who died when he was 49.  

She needs a bit of her Great Grandmother's stuff.  This will be exciting for her to have.

My Next Non-Essential Quilt

Suzette aka Swooze, made the mistake of showing me this quilt by sending me a link to a photo online.

Then I was playing in Pinterest one day and found the same quilt.  Wow!  Like deja vu!

Then I found it in a magazine.   I already had this
magazine in my house.  So I randomly picked it up one night just to look through it while I was bored and I came across the one in the same. So is a fact that the universe is telling me to make this quilt!  And when the universe tells you to make a quilt, by golly, you get your astral butt in gear and make a quilt!







I already had the 5 inch squares cut out.  Now if that wasn’t the universe telling me yet AGAIN to make this quilt,  I don’t know what is.

And I have a shelf full of whites to make the background. So all the stars in MY universe have lined up.  And I am making another quilt.

Maybe the name for this quilt should be

Imploding Universe........

I have to admit something.

I made another boxy pouch.  But I didn't use Patty's tutorial.  I used another one that said it was so easy it blew all the other ones away.  It didn't.  I got so discouraged with it that I tossed it into the garbage can last night. 

This morning I took it out and tried to salvage it.

I actually just needed to take out one seam and it worked just fine. 

I would still make Patty's if you want to make one though.

I did have one oops that was strictly operator error.

It is not going anywhere so this is fine for me.

The Best Saturday Ever!

Even though it did not seem like a Saturday with all the holidays going on, it was a pretty good one.


If you want to see what a lot of south Louisiana looks like, here is a nice picture of the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp.  This is where the Mississippi River would be draining if man would not force it into submission down the current path.

I had arranged to meet Swooze (from Mesquite, TX) at a restaurant in Lafayette.  It was fairly equi-distant between the two of us, Baton Rouge and New Iberia, where she was in town visiting with her brother.  She brought along the two most delightful parents you can imagine.  We talked her dad's ears off, so he took solace in Frank's more sedate manner.  (Although if you can withstand the millions of questions Frank fires at you, you are doing well.)

To no avail.....

There's me trying to be serious......

Swooze, her mom and I terrorized the quilt shop after dinner and bought a "few" yards of fabric on a nice 40% discount.  I had never been to this shop so it was good seeing all the people and enjoying their amusement at our antics.  There were some ladies I knew in the classroom so I felt totally at home.

you can see Frank in the reflection!

It was wonderful seeing the face behind the blog and comments and texts.  We were instantly felt a kinship like we had known each other for years!  And Mom and Dad were just great in the mix.

I bought some shot cotton and some homespun type stripes for some table runners and she bought bright and beautiful batiks.  Mom got fabrics for a table runner, blue and red.  I think Dad and Frank slept off the lunch in the car while we shopped.  To their credit, the men were very very patient and didn't complain much.




Here is my haul, when I was friviously purchasing these fabrics I did not once think of my stash report...........


Let's do this again.....I loved seeing that you were taller than me......I gotta keep friends like that!

glen:  and hey, when are you going to post to your blog again......dearie?