by | July 28, 2011 · 4:43 pm

Apparently it’s Appreciate Mom Week!

Another smiley from my email 🙂

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4 responses to “Apparently it’s Appreciate Mom Week!”

  1. Dee's avatar Dee
    July 28, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    So pretty! Is that fabric on the canvas?

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  2. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    July 28, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    It’s a quilt you sillyhead, and I do believe Chrissy made it. GORGEOUS!

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  3. Dee's avatar Dee
    July 28, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    LOL! So it is! The tower portion of the windmill looked a little like carpet, so I wasn’t sure!

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  4. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    July 28, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    It’s totally pieced from 2″ x 2″ squares. Where the design demanded a slanted line of two fabrics within a square, that square was pieced.

    Dearest had to do a lot of the pattern making for the fiddly pieces. I am very angle challenged and will NEVER attempt this method again!

    The window and door are photo fabric prints. The window is a pic someone else took of Mama Buzz at the Keukenhof Gardens and the door is a pic she took of the famous Muscari River.

    After the top was done, I quilted it. “Quilt” actually means to make a sandwich of a top (the pieced part), a bottom (a single piece of fabric) and the squishy middle (batting), then sew through all layers. That’s what gives quilts their warmth, strength, and the pretty depths and shadows.

    I like to make my backing big enough to lap it over to the front and sew it down for the binding. I did that here. The binding and backing are the same fabric as the ground … that multi-colored flower fabric.

    After the whole thing was quilted and bound, I went back and sewed seed bead accents. I like my quilts to look good at a far distance, a near distance and a really close up and touch distance. You can kind of see the foundation plantings I seed beaded around the bottom of the windmill.

    There are beads other places where I thought they looked good and big one big brown button in the middle where the blades cross.

    I’m working now on a same-sized Christmas quilted wall-hanging for this spot. Mama Buzz and I had a brain-storm about how it would be fun to have seasonal hangings they could rotate. This one hangs on a curtain rod that is easy to just pop off the wall clips and slide out of the sleeve on the back of the quilt.

    Anyone remember the 12 Days of Obamamas? The foundation scans I used for that are the fabric for the Buzz Family 12 Days of Froggy Christmas wall hanging. And yes, I really have been working on it that long. Sigh. It’s in my too big UFO pile.

    UFO is quilt-speak for UnFinished Object.

    But it’s not ENTIRELY my fault. People keep having babies, so I stop working on my UFOs to make baby quilts for them. I’m ALMOST finished with that one I showed off a long time ago. Just sewing the last of the binding. It’s slow. Has to be hand done and my hands do NOT like hand sewing. Cramps galore.

    Then I need to make some dresses or I will be going nekkid soon. Some of my wardrobe’s been washed so often, it’s gotten kinda transparent and I mean that in the traditional definition of the word, not the way His O’liness means it!

    BUT THEN, fershure, please nobody else gets preggers for a while, I’m going to get that Froggy quilt done for THIS Christmas. I hope.

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