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Ah, the long-forgotten feeling of accomplishment.
You may remember in 2005 I finally finished the rail fence quilt I made Nan and Lear for their wedding present. It was a rail fence of two sets of 6 colors each and I wrote them a sappy letter about how each set represented one of them and the quilt was the story of them merging their lives together (my god, the sap). Here's a photo of it folded up where you can see the two colorways used.
(You can see a picture of the whole thing on my slowly being-established Flickr pages, if you can't remember).
What you don't know is that Nan and Lear, being crazy sapsters themselves, decided to redo their entire living room to match the quilt. No, I'm not kidding. New curtains, couches, etc. Wow. I started to feel really guilty. I mean, come on, it was only a lap quilt, it's not really filling up the room that much....
Unfortunately back in the day when I bought the fabric for that quilt, I was not quite the spending/hoarding/stashing machine I am these days, so I really didn't have much left over. I had one square each of the rail fence, and a few scraps of fabrics left over.
So I took the rail fence squares, and then I surrounded each colorway with strips from the opposite colorway...you know, so it's the story of the two of them merging their lives together again!! Oh, the sap!
And now they have pillows to match their quilt and their new curtains and their new couches... and I don't feel quite as guilty about the whole thing.
Simple Non-Quilted Backs
Colorway 2 (Lear) surrounded by Colorway 1 (Nan)
Colorway 1 (Nan) surrounded by Colorway 2 (Lear)
I'm sooooo pleased with these turned out. I loved how the fabrics were complementing their alternate squares and if they didn't already own the quilt that matches these, I would be soooo tempted to keep them for myself...
In other news this week:
- Took pictures of an abandoned building in Gary, Indiana (murder capital of the world, or so I'm told. We survived) and a bridge in Southside Chicago where we learned lots of trivia from a friendly city electrician.
- Listened to Lyle Lovett at Ravinia.
- Watched Andre Agassi's last hurrah and goodbye (tearfully) and Rob Cordry's departure from the Daily Show (not as tearfully).
- Bought tickets to see Joan Baez in November.
- Pieced half of one back of one of the Strippers of the Orient.
Upcoming events:
- Gnarls Barkley on Monday
- Grey's season 2 DVDs come out Tuesday.
- Snow Patrol on Saturday
- Renegade Craft Fair next weekend.
- Next week: lots of season premieres! Woot!
OK now I'm going to go eat some peanut butter and make a couple random pillowcases from Mariko's excellent tutorial for the pillows I keep near the couch for nap time. Ciao for now!
Posted by Duff at September 10, 2006
How wonderfully sappy :) I love the matching pillows too. Makes me want to get back into the sewing room. And maybe I'll see you at Renegade next weekend.
Posted by: Julie at September 10, 2006 11:47 AM
Wow, It's amazing how hard that is to follow when you have no f-ing clue what a colorway. Seriously, red that and try to figure it out if you don't know the vocab. I DID however understand the second part of your post - don't forget to watch Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and light a little candle for NBC getting back in the game!
Posted by: Ginger at September 10, 2006 12:39 PM
Obviously, sometimes sap is good! The pillows will be a lovely addition to their room...and what flattery to have it all designed around your quilt.
Lyle Lovett at Ravinia must have been great. I miss being able to go up there for concerts.
Posted by: Heidi at September 10, 2006 04:05 PM
LOVELY! Story, quilt and pillows -- the hat trick and/or trifecta. Sucks that I can't go to Renegade for the first time ever.
Posted by: Mary at September 10, 2006 07:48 PM
The pillows are awesome! What a good idea.
And dude, I thought you were anti-flickr... :)
Posted by: Melanie at September 10, 2006 08:14 PM
They look great Carolyn!
You are soo glad ur not in Sydney right now or you would be saturated like me, lol
Posted by: clare eats at September 11, 2006 02:00 AM
They are awesome!
Posted by: monica at September 11, 2006 12:55 PM
dude, excellent job.
sap and all.
Posted by: maryse at September 11, 2006 02:39 PM
That's such a pretty quilt - I totally planned on making a quilt for a friend's wedding (since that's all she wanted from me), but I got lazy and instead bought her and her husband lots of wine instead.
Posted by: Gloria at September 11, 2006 11:30 PM
What everyone said.
Posted by: Betsy at September 12, 2006 09:31 AM
I love them!!! Fabulous job.
Wish I could be there for Renegade Craft Fair. sigh.
Posted by: alice at September 12, 2006 11:15 AM