Do you recall, before I got ill, way back to February?
Well today, they finally got some more attention. I had gone into my room to have another look at those florals to see if I could come up with a solid plan for them. But I was distracted by the crumbs. I have played about making up blocks here and there and had even gotten some of them sewn into good sized pieces for placemats. One was even quilted, using the templates which Tony gave to me at Christmas. Today I found myself making Frankenbats for the rest of the pile..
Some have not only frankenbats, but also Frankenbacks. LOL
Some are more scrappy than others, but that's ok, these are just utility mats for my table, and I wanted to use them to practice using my quilting templates.
In hindsight, all of those tiny little crumbs and the multitude of seams was probably the wrong project for a first try at using my templates.
I struggled at times to move my sandwich and the template in unison.
A close inspection will reveal many little mistakes.
But I can live with the errors and to be honest, the fronts are so busy, even I'm hard pressed to find the wobbles and I'm easily distracted by all of the happy memories of other quilts and projects all sewn together to create these Frankenmats.
And here they all are.
Six Frankenmats and a frankenrunner.
Not only will those very busy tops hide my first attempts, I think they might hide a few spills too.
Now, I just need to find a suitable binding fabric. I think I may have enough of the blue grey that I used for the backings. Hmm, where is my tape measure?
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While I sewed in my room, Tony fiddled in his room and visited the kitchen to bake bread.
He made a pretty good looking loaf.
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ANZAC Day tomorrow.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of he sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.
