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Another UFO bites the dust.
I started this one in 2006. I bought a couple of yards of the fabric
in the center because it was a map of Upstate NY and the Adirondack Mountains. I gave a half yard to each of my 2 DDs, DSis, DM and DSIL. The challenge was that we would all make something special and report back the next summer. Hah! But I did finish it eventually. This is the closest I've ever come (or probably ever will come) to an "art" quilt. There are 13 different "color blocks" and 13 turtles -- really, that's what those blobby things a turtles, to indicate the Native American story of Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (http:// www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mosmd/turtle.htm) There is minimal quilting though -- just some in the ditch stabilizing and spirals on the turtles. The fusible web I used for their little heads, tails and feet has disintegrated a bit over the years so their limbs wiggle a little -- a nice serendipitous touch, eh? (see Flickr -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rose-mo...in/photostream ) Rose in CA |
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Another UFO bites the dust.
I think it's elegant. Well done!
(did any of your family do anything with theirs?) Liz On 1/28/2012 2:07 PM, Rose in CA wrote: I started this one in 2006. I bought a couple of yards of the fabric in the center because it was a map of Upstate NY and the Adirondack Mountains. I gave a half yard to each of my 2 DDs, DSis, DM and DSIL. The challenge was that we would all make something special and report back the next summer. Hah! But I did finish it eventually. This is the closest I've ever come (or probably ever will come) to an "art" quilt. There are 13 different "color blocks" and 13 turtles -- really, that's what those blobby things a turtles, to indicate the Native American story of Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (http:// www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mosmd/turtle.htm) There is minimal quilting though -- just some in the ditch stabilizing and spirals on the turtles. The fusible web I used for their little heads, tails and feet has disintegrated a bit over the years so their limbs wiggle a little -- a nice serendipitous touch, eh? (see Flickr -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rose-mo...in/photostream ) Rose in CA |
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Another UFO bites the dust.
Liz,
As far as I know they did not. But I'm sending the photo to each of them to try to egg them on a bit ;-) Rose in CA On Jan 29, 6:07*am, Liz Megerle wrote: I think it's elegant. *Well done! (did any of your family do anything with theirs?) Liz |
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Another UFO bites the dust.
What a very unique piece! Isn't it fantastic to have an "original" that
you made yourself? Michelle in Wichita, KS (formerly of Nevada) On 1/28/2012 1:07 PM, Rose in CA wrote: I started this one in 2006. I bought a couple of yards of the fabric in the center because it was a map of Upstate NY and the Adirondack Mountains. I gave a half yard to each of my 2 DDs, DSis, DM and DSIL. The challenge was that we would all make something special and report back the next summer. Hah! But I did finish it eventually. This is the closest I've ever come (or probably ever will come) to an "art" quilt. There are 13 different "color blocks" and 13 turtles -- really, that's what those blobby things a turtles, to indicate the Native American story of Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (http:// www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mosmd/turtle.htm) There is minimal quilting though -- just some in the ditch stabilizing and spirals on the turtles. The fusible web I used for their little heads, tails and feet has disintegrated a bit over the years so their limbs wiggle a little -- a nice serendipitous touch, eh? (see Flickr -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rose-mo...in/photostream ) Rose in CA |
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