that turkey...

In the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors there was an article on prompts.
add this shape, add that color, do this or that.....tons of them

I wrote them all down on little sheets, including....couch something on and I didn't even know what that was.

I wanted to add something to "that turkey quilt" but had no idea what.
So I drew out a little sheet from the container of prompts.

Wouldn't you know...I drew out couch something....
good grief
Well I needed to find out what it is.
Couching is a way of attaching something to your work, like wool, ribbon, thread, or even wire. You can make a picture or word or pattern.

I added light purple floss and stitched it in place with a rusty color around his hat.

That was cool, I just couched something on..... but enough of that, what else? Draw another sheet......

Add stripes.

So I had to think some more. How could I do that??

I added narrow strips of green fabric....the turkey looks like he is peaking out of the grass.

There is probably all kinds of things I could have done yet....but I wasn't feeling to adventurous.

And besides I wanted to send it off to my Aunt Barb sooner rather than later.

She got her first turkey hunting this year. She is an excellent hunter. Thanks to her (and my Uncle Hop) we have dined on different delicacies when visiting them in Idaho...

things like bear ham, elk roast and cougar sausage....and it is all so GOOD!!!!

geocaching

We did some quick geocaching yesterday.
There a ton of them in Albert Lea, Mn. We went to 10 and found 8. I could only log 7 of them though... we had been to one of them 3 years ago....geesh.
While at one of them I crawled under an evergreen tree with broken off branches. First I stabbed myself in the back, then I ended up poking myself in the head on one of the branches.
THAT HURT.
My eyes watered the pain was so great....
Tractor joe says he heard me say (bleep) (bleep) (delete)....I only remember saying "that's it, this will be a DNF (did not find)...lets get out of here"

Today is a new day...while my head is still tender, it doesn't affect my ability to think. So I have started a new little project. My turkey hunting aunt Barb is the inspiration....

I am in the middle of it now. It will be a tulle quilt, not much sewing on these kinds.
All the background fabrics are fused down to some batting,
the letters are ready to stamp some words,
and the turkey is ready too.


I don't remember the name of the pattern right now. I'll include that when I blog the finished product.
Right now I need to find out what turkey tracks look like, I may put some of those on this too.

another tulle wall quilt.....

Last weekend, as I was unloading the dryer, I pulled out a pair of Crispy's underwear.


They were boxers....but the back end was thread bear and one big hole. He couldn't wear these anymore....


I will throw them away.





But wait....


That is a cute plaid.


And even if it is thin, thin fabric...


could I use it????





Maybe I could just cut it up in to squares and and make one of the "tulle quilts"
It received it's official name when Crispy came walking by and said,

"hey, what are you doing with my underwear????"

I won't add any other embellishment...just the binding. When I showed Crispy and his friends, who were here, the finished product they said,
"hey that's cute"









And...
I have to keep it and hang it up somewhere here at home.....
Who would want Crispy's old underwear anyway????

he who plants flowers.....

Another lay down the random squares of fabric

bond it to the batting

add stamped words, images and applique,

sew it all down with tulle

and add more embelishments

mini quilt!!

(There has got to be a shorter name for these...I gotta think about that)I made my first ever YO-YO for the flower

I was going to give that job to Karen....

she has made them....

but decided to try it on my own, besides, she was working.

It is probably the frilliest, girlie type quilt I have ever made.

and I am giving it to my 70-something father-in-law
no....
wait.....
he is 80-something now.
anyway....
He plants SO MANY flowers in their yard every year, I thought this was most fitting for him. A little brightness for their entry way while we wait for the snow to melt and the ground to thaw. It is March, it can't be long now.

mini heart quilt....

This is a very easy to assemble mini quilt.

I will tell you what I did....

the link for Mrs. Moen's directions are at the bottom of this post.

I grabbed a scrap piece of batting from near my sewing machine.

I applied some heat and bond (cut to roughly the same size)....

then started laying scraps of fabric on it, overlapping slightly.

Everything was then ironed down.

Since it was for an aniversary, the words happy love were stamped on.

Becareful of little b's d's p's and q's....they can be confusing.

anyway....

I used acrylic paint, it dries quickly.The next layer was tulle. I used white and it was a "finer holed" kind....

Mrs. Moen's looked like bigger gaps on hers. I seemed to work just the same.

I also used my favorite wavy stitch, not straight lines like the origonal.

When the wavy stitching was all done, I marked a heart in the center.

I zigzagged a couple times around the heart sewing down this funky, hairy yarn.

Then I put the binding on. The whole thing only took a couple hours.

http://mrsmoenhowtos.blogspot.com/search/label/Make%20a%20Heart

I think next time I will use lighter fabrics...then I can stamp more words all over it.
I am guessing this is about 12 x 12 inches.