after i finished what a wonderful world, i loaded the frame with alphabet soup - a flimsy that has been waiting to be quilted since ... let me go check ... december 28, 2007 ...... i started it in september of the same year - right after i found out that there would be a new little sunday - but i kept stalling out ... the expectant parents decided that they weren't gonna know the baby's gender till her birth day ... and then i was told that the baby's room was gonna have an under the sea theme ... so i put away alphabet soup and started working on a turtle quilt ... but i ran out of blue wave fabric and put the turtles away ... i took alphabet soup back out and decided that it was far too loud for a baby and added an outer border to calm it down ... and then i decided that a bitty baby probably wouldn't want a quilt with a bunch of sharp pencils pieced all over it and went back to the turtle quilt ... but the turtle quilt was too blue ... i came up with the brilliant - not! idea of making a signature quilt for the new baby ... so i sewed together a backing and some binding and put alphabet soup in a project bag under the quilting frame ... and promptly forgot about it ...... anywho ...... i finished quilting it a few days ago...
see what i mean about those sharp pencils?
a ... b ... see ... all those inconsistent stitches
see what i mean about those sharp pencils?
a ... b ... see ... all those inconsistent stitches
i dunno what photo shop has against those colors - that's actually cheeto orange and crackly lavender and dark sky blue
chalkboard green flannel wasn't on sale - so i settled for moss green - which you wouldn't know looking at that picturethe new little sunday just celebrated her second birthday and ended up with a way cool quilt named Good Wishes Fishes ... so alphabet soup is gonna go hug my favorite blue-eyed blond-headed boy
but ... wait ... that's not the end of the story ... i went looking for one of the practice pencils to use for the naming block and found this...
leftovers ... groani guess i'm not done after all
Now that's bright and cheerful.....a great quilt for a boy!
ReplyDeleteI think you overthink quilts too much! LOL! ANY kid would love it! It's so very happy looking!
ReplyDeleteGlad I am not the only one with those kind of Photoshop issues. I like how it finally came out.
ReplyDeleteThose are all lovely!
ReplyDelete(By the way, I think your grandson's teacher is partly right. Two of my children have always been able to spell - well, since they began to write - and the third is slightly dyslexic, which was obvious to me from the moment she began to write. She was a hilariously phonetic speller as a child and now, at 28, is pretty good - but still has to look things up sometimes. She's learned to spell but it's been an effort.)
Hey, haven't you been to a class or two..what's the latest with Peggy Money Penny.
ReplyDeleteI love Alphabet Soup!