Sunday, November 29, 2020

New Additions to Quote Quilt

 

I'm still adding more things to the quote quilt, as you can tell from the title. These are the new additions this week.

I added mostly decorative things this week. No deep meanings behind most of these. In the photo above, I  added the boy sleeping under a crazy quilt. The quote and the moon were there from previous additions.

This sun quote is on one of my index cards drawings. I got it from an art journal page I saw on YouTube. I really like the confidence of this quote.

I have pi on the circle quilt, and thought it would be nice to have here as well.  The diagonal lines kept distracting me so the pi is at an angle. I could fix it, but I think it still looks like pi.

This quote looked like it had some space for a little something, and since it said heart, I added hearts. The things at the bottom are supposed to be flowers, but if you thought paintbrushes or torches or faces something else, I am fine with that.


2020:  Weeks 48 of 15 Minutes to Stitch



We had a short, virtual Thanksgiving gathering, and a stay at home advisory. Since I had a long Thanksgiving weekend, I had plenty of time to add lots of things to the quote quilt.

I also soaked some walnuts to extract some dye and dyed some fabric for a little fabric booklet.  I didn't heat set it before I washed it so most of it washed out.  So I have soaked them in coffee and this time, I will heat set it before washing in vinegar, and hopefully some of the color will stay.

 

15 minute days this week -- 7 out of 7
15 minute days this year -- 280 out of 334 days
Success rate  = 84%

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9 comments:

Cynthia@wabi-sabi-quilts said...

Love the Helen Keller quote - so wise.

Joyful Quilter said...

Really like the new additions. Yes, it looks like Pi, and yes, they look like flowers (although I tried really hard to see the faces - no luck).

Libby in TN said...

Your sun quote reminds me of what I told my mother when she was bemoaning her lack of housekeeping. I told her the sun would come up tomorrow whether she dusted or not.

Robin said...

I boiled some walnut shells and dipped some fabric in the water. It took the stain so fast. It was much darker than I expected. I don't think it will ever wash out. . . I have a lot to learn about dying fabric.

Sandy said...

I love the first quote. I think it would make a great addition to a quilt label.

Kim said...

Sleeping under a hand made quilt is truly joyous. Love those sweet hearts.

Nancy said...

You are making great progress on this quilt, Shasta! It looks so interesting. Will you enter it in a show somewhere, sometime? It would be fun to see it in person when it's finished.

Kate said...

Very fun additions to the quote quilt. I like the quote about sunrise and those hearts. Hope you got in a good week of stitching time this week. My apologies for being so slow to respond the last week, it was one of those just scrapping by weeks.

Tanya said...

I can imagine generations in the future spending sleepless nights under your quilt reading it!