What’s on my DESIGN FLOOR, Monday, January 23, 2012
Posted By drsao on January 23, 2012
I was looking at my design floor post last week……and I was sure giggling because I did not DO EITHER OF THE TWO THINGS THAT WERE ON MY DESIGN FLOOR last week. I am just like the mouse in the book “IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE…” I got DISTRACTED by other things.
OK – so here is what I DID do.
FIRST… I put together the top for my grandangel, Jannae’s, art quilt.
She made these drawings on cloth with crayon when she was 5 and 6 years old.
- Jannae’s Art Quilt
Second – I knitted a hat for my Grandangel, Leanna.
Leanna's knitted hat
I think I have redeemed myself after making her an ugly scraf that my brother, Dan, says looks like she was wearing intestines around her neck. I still do not know what to do with it………I guess it would make a good WHITE ELEPHANT gift if that ever comes up!
Leanna and the UGLY Knitted Scarf
Third – I helped Grandangel Leanna make a pieced skirt for her sister’s American Girl Doll. She made it with 2 1/2″ fabric strips from my 30’s fabrics – I have a special basket for this fabric collection
Grandangel Leanna and the SKIRT
Fourth – I finished my 2012 January Color Challenge – combined with my January Free Motion Quilting Challenge – it is my first Alzheimer’s Art Quilt to be donated this year.
The colors were given by Vicki Welsh – the picture is of tiles of an 1882 Ship that she saw in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. I used yo yo’s that I purchased at an “estate” fabric sale. I just couldn’t let this deceased quilter’s pickle jar of yo yo’s that she worked so hard on NOT get used for something special!
I also quilted it using HEART LEAVES – the January 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge.
The Spangle Tree
I named the quilt the THE SPANGLE TREE in memory of my friend Margarita. She was a Spanish Professor at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA where I taught for 20 years. We used to walk together in the early mornings before our classes started. I loved her!
Margarita was very spiritual and shared the story of how “GOD SPOKE TO HER ONE NIGHT AND CALLED HER HIS SPANGLE.” She was very distressed because she dreamed and prayed in SPANISH and God had spoken to her in ENGLISH. So she had to go look up SPANGLE in the dictionary. She said it meant sweet, and special – like a sparkling star. (I looked up the meaning on WIKIPEDIA and evidently it was also a candy made in the 1950’s as well….now discontinued.)
Here is the BACK of The Spangle Tree…..I used a BIRD HOUSE label (you have to have birdhouses to go with a Spangle Tree) that I got on the WHITE ELEPHANT TABLE at my Colonial Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild meeting. I love using unloved and unwanted things for a new purpose.
The Back of THE SPANGLE TREE
Fourth – I made my 11 x 14 block for the Richmond Modern Quilt Guild Round Robin that will begin in February. We had to use a word that represented our dreams or aspirations for 2012. I chose SPANGLES (I guess my friend, God’s Spangle, Margarita, is on my mind a lot lately, and I had a DREAM about this block – SERIOUSLY, I planned it in my dream!) So, in 2012, I hope to be sweet, special, different, sparkly like a star, colorful, and FUN!….so SPANGLES is my word for 2012. The dots in the fabric represent the CANDY NERDS which I tasted for the FIRST TIME this week. Grandangel, Sarah, shared some with me. The ONLY candy that I really eat much is chocolate….so this was a taste adventure.
Spangles
Fifth – I put together my 2011 Summer Mystery Quilt!
Summer Mystery 2011
So what will I do this week? WHAT I HAD ON MY DESIGN FLOOR LAST WEEK! LOL.
Go to Judy Laquidara’s Blog at Patchwork Times.Com to see what quilters around the country are working on!
http://www.patchworktimes.com/2012/01/23/design-wall-monday-january-23-2012/
Baby girl, when you went to Wikipedia for the definition of spangle – didn’t you see your picture???????????