Here is the second piece. I think I like it.
I did machine trapunto on most of the animals (except on the border were Ihad to use pretty much every space.
I did machine trapunto on most of the animals (except on the border were Ihad to use pretty much every space.
What better thing to do with squirrel skins than use them in your quilt?
Tom and I flew home on Monday afternoon. We arrived back in Pelham around midnight. We had a great week-end. We love our family and enjoy seeing them.
You can see this one alittle more,
but still much better than the frayed edges of the holes showing.
Here is a picture of the rod pocket I put on the quilt my mother made me.
The textile medium really does work – see the spot that I missed and the color penciles washed out when I was washing the quilt?
During December of 2007 I attended two funnerals. At one there were alot of flowers and I as I was thinking about when I died I would rather have people donate to a worthy cause instead of buying flowers that will just die and have to be thrown away. But, then a few days later I went to a funneral and there were NO flowers. Changed my mind – I thought I wanted a few flowers, but then still have money donated to a worthy cause. But, with all those stands that they have to put the flowers on – that would be a great place to drape my quilts on. Having the quilts displayed would really add to the celebration of life atmosphere that I want to have. It would really be like a party and people would enjoy coming to see me dead. Later that month my kids were visiting to participate with me in the Emerald Nut’s Midnight Fun Run at Central Park on New Year’s Eve. I was telling my girls about the additional plans that I want when I die. (I have already told them I want upbeat music playing at the viewing – I really do want it to be a celebration of my life.)
A few days later my daughter came to me and said that we don’t have to wait until I die to do a party like this – I was turning 50 in 2008 – why not celebrate my 50th Birthday by hanging all my quilts and inviting family and friends to enjoy an afternoon together and see my quilts.
My birthday is in December and this really is a very hard time of the year to do something like this. As we started to look at the calendar we realized that my exact 50 1/2 birthday was on a Saturday in June – thus the idea for my 50 1/2 Birthday celebration was born. But, I needed a more catchy name. I asked Janaradan (one of my son-in-law’s) to come up it a catchy name. He went to his computer and started doing some searching. He found the word – Quinquagenarian (which means 50 years old). I decided this was perfect. Put it together with Quilt (since that was going to be the focus of the party) Quest (journey). As I was making plans for the party and lisiting the quilts that I had (or had made) I realized that I had at least one quilt from each of the decades of my life.
A couple of months ago I saw a postcard that Jane Davilla had designed for Fiber + Thread = Art exhibit. She had taken slivers of five different quilts and merged them together to make one photo for the front of the postcard. I thought this would wonderful for my postcard invitations. I included a sliver of quilt from a quilt made in each of the decades of my life. The party is a month away.
Last weekend was the quilt show for Northern Star Quilters – A World of Quilts XXX.Here is Autumn’s quilt with its beautiful ribbon. I loved being able to show off my quilt that my 5 year old granddaughter had made for me.
I have joined a group blog and just completed my first post on this blog. This blog is dedicated to hexagon lovers. Do you think I qualify? This first post is pictures of various hexagon projects that I have made. Most of these pictures have never made it on my blog. So, if you are intersted, stop by.
Thanks and have a GREAT evening!
Here is the green side before I added the folded hexagons.