The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154657 Message #3640946
Posted By: Bat Goddess
10-Jul-14 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: Summer 2014 Exercise the right to declutter!
Subject: RE: Summer 2014 Exercise the right to declutter!
The quilt project has actually been around for a long time. I think it was back in the '90s that I sent them to my mother in Milwaukee. Then she ended up fretting and stewing about how to go about it and, despite advice from her sister (in California), she finally ended up deciding she didn't want to tackle it, so sent them all back to me.
Somewhere around ten years ago when I was visiting Milwaukee, a high school classmate of mine who quilts said, bring 'em out (I drove out a couple times with my cousin -- in a pickup truck, so there was space for a couple boxes of T-shirts) and we'll do it together.
Well...wouldn't you know, I never got back with enough time to be able to do the quilt.
So...my friend Carol in the next town over suggested we do it together because she wanted to learn how to do it (she's an experienced quilter) so she could make one for herself. So we got a start on it -- and then Tom was diagnosed with vocal cord cancer. And between work and Tom's treatment, the project got put on hold.
And stayed on hold throughout the rest of Tom's medical odyssey. About a month or so ago I told her I was ready to start work again and get the quilt made. We really can only work together on Tuesdays. She got upset when I had to cancel once because I hadn't had any sleep, but she just took three Tuesdays off to do other things. And now she's all in a hurry to GET IT DONE. She's now acting impatient and almost angry at me because it's not done already, so that's definitely adding to the pressure I'm feeling about everything else.
She's picking up more Pellon, but I took the squares and the Pellon squares that I cut out Tuesday home. On Tuesday she cut out the stripping that will go in between squares. But (other than picking up the interfacing) she won't work on it except when we're together. So I want to get as many of these squares prepped as possible. And I'll probably do a paper layout based on color, too, before next Tuesday. Then maybe she can start sewing, which will make her happy.
The T-shirts are all music festivals, pubs, beer or booze shirts. The Fishtraks recording studio shirt, which Tom and I each got the night we met, will be in the center, or close to the center.
I'd like to curl up in the fetal position and suck my thumb for awhile...but I've got way too many things to do, even not counting the quilt.
Linn