Furlough day 12 Starfish

 I am totally addicted to starfish images. 

pics from Carrissa  Rideout.

Furlough Days 9 & 10

 Yesterday we took a mental health ride up to Warm Lake.

 It's still winter in the high country.

 Since we're eating lunches from the saddle bags, I decided to up the sack lunch game.  Today's theme is rolled up foods.  These are salads wrapped in rice paper wrappers. Inside are peppers and carrots.  These pansies taste like grape koolaid.  So I added some lemon balm and made an orange dipping sauce.  Froot Loop Rolls.

 Made sushi for the first time in a decade.  But with smoked salmon for food safety.

Back to quilty things tomorrow.

Furlough Day 8 Covid Selfie

I have been working today on the second panel of the Covid quilt.

This is the Selfie that Chris sent me.  She assures me that she was looking relatively good at this point and things went downhill from here.

Still needs ears, oxygen mask tubing and some under-eye details.

Motivates me to STAY HOME.

Lungs Done

So happy to have this feature panel of Chris' Covid quilt done.  It's 20x 28".  Represents my friend's experience with the coronavirus.  She says that it feels like there were "shards of glass in my lungs".  I worked hard to represent that, and the lighting on this picture does show that all the shards are 3-D.  Top of the trachea is left open lest intubation needed.

I  had a different grey/black background picked out, but when it was time to do the cut, realized it was piece of double wide fabric I'd bought for a backing.  Couldn't bear to cut into it.  Black textured fabric to the rescue.

Throughout the quilt, I plan to add the Covid Pom Poms.  They represent the virus.  And will show up randomly.

Next up.  Sorting out the other panels, primarily for size.  Pic with Chris wearing an O2 mask is the next biggest panel.  But several smaller panels to represent her experience. 

Furlough Day 6 Lungs

My plans for the day got flipped around and I ended up working on the Covid19 quilt instead.  Prepped the second lung and got most of it stitched down.  Need to make more of the large white glass shards.  This is part of a quilt for my friend Chris who survived the virus.  She says it felt like her lungs were filled with shards of glass. 

Furlough Days 3-5

I've been busy the last few days.  On the quilting front, I asked a Face Book group of scuba divers for ideas for a pillow, thinking I'd make one to go with the octopus.  They shared hundreds of pictures with me.  I narrowed it down to 7 that I thought would translate well to quilting.  While I promised myself I wouldn't start new projects until I finished a bunch of the old ones.... I also committed to having only one project per category going at a time.  I just finished the purple machine quilting piece.  The jellyfish is just quilting.  This one goes to the photographer Bridget Perry and I have one prepped for me.

We packed a lunch and took a couple Mental Health rides.  Being a sparsely populated state has its advantages (size of the UK with only 1.7 million people, half of whom live in or near the capital city).

I completed another repeat on the crochet project and it is very clearly not the right scale with this thread.   I do have some finer in the stash, so time to start over.

The late daffodils are still blooming and the early tulips fading.  Time to do some deadheading when the rain stops.   Garden shops here are now open (with face masks & distancing rules) so that may be part of today's events.  It's my civic duty to help keep them in business.

Purple Finish

 Here's the finished quilt in the morning light so you can see the texture.  This was machine quilted on a cheap Singer.  I transferred the deign onto the center panel using Crayola Ultra-clean washable markers.  None of the fabrics were pre-washed, so the final step of washing this in hot water, combined with the cotton batting makes the yummy texture.

 This photo taken from the opposite end.

 This is a wedding quilt for my Niece Denise.  Years ago, I started a tradition of making a Groom's quilt "because we know you'll be sleeping on the couch".  Typically it's made with scraps from the Bride's quilt.  This time it was a practice piece to see how the FMQ would work out.

 This is Jaxson's quilt from the back side.

 Denise's quilt from the back.

And a bonus one since it's easier to see the design on the green because of the contrasting thread.