You guys, I am way too excited about my new quilt to wait until it’s bound to show it to you. Forgive me?
Disclaimer: If you have issues with the use of the full English vocabulary, then you might get a bit flustered by this quilt. And it’s mildly NSFW. Come back later!
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So…here’s the story. I went to Rhinebeck much too long ago and got to meet Eling, the super amazing fiber pusher dyer/carder/purveyor at Traveling Rhinos. I brought her a golden miniquilt and she brought me some lovely fabrics.
Check out those cats! The folded piece on the left is some Nani Iro and on the right are batiked pups because she knows of my current obsession with puppies. You know, photos of puppies are currently my drug. I just look at one and instantly I relax. If I weren’t allergic, I’d get a real one.
But I digress.
The point here is that she also gave me that postcard there. It’s something I say in my head all the time both at RealJob and when wandering around on the interwebs looking at great quilts and stuff. Like when I saw this amazing quilt top by Maritza Soto. Yikes! Anyway, there was something galvanizing about seeing it in print.
Jump to three days later… Last Wednesday had an eerie open calendar and so I made it my Saturday and spent a few hours patchworking.
It felt really really good to cut and seam and it almost didn’t matter how things looked. Just going through the motions was meditative and refreshing. I managed to get it all basted up by Saturday.
And through steady slow short sessions between RealJob stuff I got it all quilted up in a 3/4″ diagonal lattice by late Sunday night.
The contrast of colors on the “so” is too subtle, but it doesn’t mess with the message. Though it does make me reexamine the use of yellows since this is the second time this year I’ve gotten burned by some yellow…hmm. Again, though, I don’t mind it in this one.
Yeah, you are!
The binding? Oy. I could have finished it by now, but it’s been agonizing to choose a fabric. I cut a green leaf print and contemplated some durable neutral fabrics and none of them really work for me. So Franken-binding it will be!
The Details:
Materials: muslin, various solids from stash
Techniques: machined pieced improvisationally; ideas for lettering from this book, machine quilted; will be hand-bound
Finished size: 72″ x 63″
Started: October 19, 2011
Quilting finished: October 23, 2011
Finished: ??? soon!
This is the perfect auto-biographical quilt for you!
This is FANTASTIC! I love it. Love love love.
I think we all need to say this to ourselves more often. This is a great piece – any chance you could hang it in your office? Heh.
You are so fucking awesome. I think that all the time whenever I see one of your creations. I just don’t say it out loud as often as I should. (I’ve been far too quiet online lately… that needs to change.)
I love it!
Awesome!
Just when I thought you couldn’t get anymore awesome yourself… Love it, lady!
I love your quilts!
frankenbinding will be perfect for this one. It’s simple enough to take anything you throw at it!
it is so fucking awesome!!!
OMG this is so fucking awesome!!!
Franken-binding will be perfect. I’m so glad you were able to get an entire quilt in with your busy schedule. That in itself is awesome, and the actual quilt rocks, too!
How could you add anything but the Franken-binding to this most awesome quilt? Again you pull off another F-ing A quilt! :)
I’m seriously in love with this so fucking ridiculously awesome quilt. I hope you wrap yourself up in it everyday to remind yourself of how awesome you are! Did your neighbor lady get a look at this one?
This quilt is the fucking awesomest! And so are you!!! This is so fantastic! LOVE LOVE LOVE
And thanks for the shout-out. Means a lot coming from you. xo
i totally love this! excellent work and holy crap you finished that so fast! i love your frankenbinding! it will be perfect for it.
This post is fucking awesome!!
BOY I love this! So, so cool.
Damn right you are!!
So fucking wonderful! I love it. Quilt-tastic.
how wonderful it would be to see that every day!
No! No! You are! You are!!
What Bertha said. This is fantastic!
This is so great. I had an idea, this weekend, to quilt the street art that’s appeared in my neighborhood.
No, YOU are!
one of my favorite words!!! you inspire me to put it in a quilt one day soon!!!
I am fucking amazed! Gorgeous and fun!
SO fucking awesome.
Hilarious!
this is truly fantastic! i love the colors! I think that seeing this quilt every morning would make me happy. Who doesn’t want a reminder every morning that they are so fucking awesome?! By the way, it was so great to finally meet you at Rhinebeck! I wish we could have had more time to chat, but my vagina was thrilled :)
pretty damn cool! And Franken-binding will be PERFECT!!!!
Perfect, even with that little yellow issue, I love it!
You are amazing :)
I read this quilt as a boyfriend/girlfriend phone conversation. “You are SO fucking awesome!” “No way, YOU are so fucking awesome!” “No, no, no, you are so fucking AWESOME!” “Are you kidding me? You are so FUCKING AWESOME!” P.S.: You are so fucking awesome :)
I HAVE THOSE CATS!!!
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(They make up beautifully in a bag). OK…the bags of that cat fabric are F–k–g AWESOME!
And so is your quilt – no forgiveness necessary…
(((hugs)))
I yawn at all the sappy affirmations out there, but this one got my attention! Now THAT’s an affirmation. But what’s up with those cats? Who thinks up stuff like that?
this is totally fucking awesome!
hahahaha
no brag just fact.
This quilt is amazing, gorgeous, and clever – I find the message surprisingly comforting. It makes me want to wrap myself up in it.
This may be my all time favorite quilt EVER.
Seriously.
I think this might be my favorite of yours thus far (how is that possible?!). Big, bold colors just send my heart aflutter! And, to add my voice to the chorus: this is so fucking awesome.
How can you be so quick! It is pretty awesome!
woohoo!!!!!! just have to say it. fucking awesome!!!! love it. yeah, yellow sucks with white. I tried to do a letter and houses quilt in just blue yellow and white and it did not come out as planned…
Love your work – especially this quilt! Now following you! :)
High five. That quilt is amazing.
Oh MAN this makes me happy!!! and Frankenbinding is BRILLIANT! Oh this is so much more fun than sunbonnet sue, not that she isn’t fucking awesome herself…
Your quilt is sofa king awesome. AWESOME!
seriously fucking awesome! heh I need to get over swearing at you but really that is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen
That is so fucking awesome!
Definitely the frankenbinding. and I agree with what everyone else said (hard to be original when you’re the 43rd comment)
effing awesome indeed
You are so *very* awesome.
Ladylike in NYC
P.S. This comment good for one free hand-stitched binding. Send it on up and I’ll sew it on down. Srsly. I love to blind-stitch a binding more than I love garter stitch. Gasp.
I love it! Very awesome!
Wow! And I didn’t even see it coming. I love it. You ARE so fucking awesome.
Loving this SO MUCH!
It’s just fabulous. And yes, fucking awesome – just like you, C!
Awesome! And I don’t think you should be apologizing for just being your awesome self!
I’ve been laughing my ass off browsing throug your blog! I really have to read these ViagraSPAMs before i toss them:-) It was so nice to meet you at Rhinebeck.
Big hugs from sweden
/maria
Love it. Love the use of vibrant, saturated colours in combination with such a positive message. High Five!
Yeah! I love it.