So, yesterday I was sitting at my sewing machine working on a quilt top that's been sitting neglected for almost a year now, when my SigO asked me how I got started quilting. 
So, I told him the story of Wendy, who used to design Haute Couture in her apartment in San Antonio. I lived in the same apartment complex at the time and we met thru my ex. I loved her fashion designs, but I was especially captured by her quilt. She was hand-dyeing silk and then putting it together in a Double Wedding Ring Quilt. It was spectacular. This picture was taken around 20 years ago at an art festival in San Antonio, Tx. Those are a pair of her hand-dyed silk shorts on Kelly's head. She taught me the basics of piecing together a quilt top, but more importantly, she inspired my love of quilts.
She's got her own line of clothes!
and she was a finalist in Bravo's Project Runway. Not sure if this was my Wendy, I dropped her an e-mail to find out, and sure enough, one and the same! Tiny little world!
And back in my tiny little world, I suffered a small shock yesterday when I realized I wasn't nearly as close to finishing my quilt top as I had been thinking. I had 48 of these squares completed. It has been so long since I started this project, I thought the red squares were all I needed to do. So, when I still had some fabric left over after finishing them, I was a tad concerned. I pulled out the pattern and discovered to my dismay that I still had 52 square to do in Blues and Greens.
So, I cut and sewed and got all of those ready to assemble and now I have this much more to put together.
Meanwhile, I'm still working on that top. But only about 10 rows/day, so progress is slow. Maybe I'll tackle more of it today and at least get up to the armholes where I have to start dividing for the neck. Not quite Haute Couture, but it's all mine and it belongs here in my happy little world.
No comments:
Post a Comment