Finished What Was Started
I started working with the collection of the 12 Days of Christmas in January 2017. I was curious as to how the images would work with various fabrics. Off and on over the last 12 months I would take the blocks out of the storage box and begin pairing the blocks with fabric. Not as easy of a task as I would re-think and second guess myself over and over. Back in the storage box and I would work on a quilt or some towels. It was always in the back of my mind to finish what I had started. How sad to have so much time, energy and resources sitting in a box for someone to come across at a time in the future and toss them as they were not a finished product.
We did get side tracked from the sewing studio when we received 12 inches of snow on Saturday and Sunday. Here we are on a Wednesday and the snow project is finished. Dennis’ grandson Ryan came today with a bob cat skid loader and cleared all the snow off of the area between the driveway and Stauffer Ave. Buckets of snow have been parked in the far east portion of the lot. Ryan used the snow rake and took off a huge amount of snow from the south side of our garage roof. We need to remind ourselves that WW2 pallets were used when that garage was built. Yes, I agree . . . fragile. A treat of warmer temps and we have bare concrete showing on the driveway. Snow at this time of year competes with a variety of thawing and melting.
So . . . back to the sewing studio. The last of the four 12 Days of Christmas is done. The blessing of a home that is over a 100 years old and not having a finished basement ceiling, it is a great place to pound a few nails in the floor joist overhead and size things up.
Each one took on a life of its own as I puzzled through. Dennis’ favorites were the blue and the black. The blue did have the designs embroidered on blue fabric with decorative stitching in the sashes. The rust colored one was what I called Prom dress material in the sashes with brass washers and beads for the quilting. The gray blocks embroidered with white sashing and red has 57 buttons for the quilting from the button tree. The gray embroidered blocks with black sashing was a challenge and had to have special embroidered sashing to bring life to the black. Have I mentioned that I am a patient quilter? I don’t get bored and I am always up for a good challenge. I know that come the latter part of the 2018 year, these will find homes. The sewing studio needed the concrete floor Swiffered this afternoon and it is totally void of anything going on . . . well . . . there is a king sized quilt that is waiting for a binding. I will think on that tomorrow.