Draft Post dated 14 February 2012...(not joking, seriously a nearly 10 year old draft!)
A long time ago in a land far away Aunt Pitty Pat held a block swap...the blocks to be swapped were owls and nine patches...and Mistea & Jindi's human thought this would be a fun game to play as a team...so they stitched and they sewed and they sent away their owl blocks and their nine patches...in due course a box arrived in the land of Mistea and there were owls and nine patches in lots of colours and fabrics different to what they had sent...and so they divided up the blocks and shared...
Jindi's human took her blocks home and put them on the wall..mmmm I need fabric with pictures of owls she thought, how hard could that be...so began the great owl fabric search...she saw lots of nice owl fabrics...on other people's blogs...but not in the shops...she searched the world wide interweb...she looked in bricks and mortar shops...she searched high and she searched low but woe betide she couldn't find any owl fabric that was just right...until...one day she went on a journey with quilty friends to a shop far away, lo and behold there were owls on fabric with all the colours that she wanted...great rejoicing was had and many metres of fabric followed her home...but...she could not decide what to do next...so she did nothing (as usual!)...and the blocks and the fabric with the colourful owls languished on a shelf...until one day when it was brought back into the light (when looking for something else - as usual!)...and over-thinking was abandoned in favour of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle...to become...[goodness only knows...apparently a photo was supposed to be uploaded...it wasn't]...
And now here we are...October 2021...
So, on the weekend while puddling about looking for something to do I emptied out a bag to see what was in it and amongst other things the half done owl quilt fell out...and after some employing of the reverse sewing tool and re-sewing to get the blocks to the same size...(that was the problem, the blocks weren't the same size and I'd been playing with options to size them up)...
Happy Stitching..
7 comments:
Well done on getting the long awaited project together…
Now don’t leave that border too long or it may be forgotten again..😀.
I think an orange would be a nice border ?
Best to be posted then not no matter how long ago the draft was started...... Hmmmm not sure about another border but a plain blue bind would be nice.....
Haha.... at last it is done though..... very cheerful quilt...
Hugz
What a story to have a post written almost 10 years ago!
Hmm, as I look at this top I kind of lean in the direction Chooky went--I think I would just bind it in blue, if it was mine. But then, it isn't, so you do as you like! :)
well done on your long lost ufo!
very pretty and great that it has resurfaced
Haha! A 10 year draft. You just can't rush these things Annette. Anyway, your quilt looks great even if it has taken a long time. I'm sure you'll find just the right colour to border it.
Well, isn't that a beautiful little quilt top. Very well done. Some things take time. Nice story behind it.
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