a couple of years ago there was a batik sale at Lyons Quilting and i wanted this...
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| oooo!!! purples and blues and teals!!! |
the pattern is written in a Block of the Month format
and all the fabric is supposed to be cut at the beginning...
which i find very, very scary...
so i delayed starting by drafting each of the blocks for paper-piecing...
and then waited a few months to Kinko them...
it was a few more months before i drummed up the courage to actually cut into those lovely batiks...
and even more time passed whilst messing up just about everything
including making a bunch of hour glass blocks and half square triangles that i didn't need
so LuLu designed a pillow topper for me...
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| she has the sweetest little feet |
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| and an eye for symmetry |
stacks of batiks and blocks aged in the Magick Shoppe
and my wanting a finished quilt waned...
but
there's the but - i knew it was somewhere
then i found the perfect fabric for the backing
and it made me want to actually finish the flimsy and send it off to Liz the Magnificent for quilting with a gazillion Enterprises...
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| NCC1701 |
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| the United Star Ship Enterprise |
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| to boldly go... |
and she transformed it into this...
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| Star Trekker |
if i ever get bored with the front, all i have to do is flip it over
and i can hang out with these guys...
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| and it didn't end up being a 5 year mission |
pattern is Stars Over Capri by Cheryl Malkowski
quilted by Liz Bowman
pieced and bound by dianne
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
Spock
Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 1
not this time, Mr. Spock...
