As promised last post here is a picture of the curtains for my office/sewing room. Well, actually, here is a picture of a tiny little part of what I hope will be curtains for my office/sewing room. I'm doing a braided strip interspersed with a plain dark blue strip. The fabrics in the braided strip are ones that my son and his wife brought back for me from Israel. I love them! They are very brocade-y and shiny, with lots of gold threads. And as an added bonus, I am also including strips of a fabric I bought in 1999.How do I know I bought said fabric in 1999? Because this fabric says "2000" all over it, and I bought it planning to make a quilt for the New Millenium with 2,000 pieces, utilizing this blue 2000 fabric as the border. Remember all the fun that was Y2K? At the time it seemed like a fabulous idea and certainly one I would do. What was I thinking? I never even attempted it, and as it got further and further away from the year 2000 I wondered how I would ever use up this fabric.
When I started to gather fabrics for my curtains, I knew there wouldn't be enough of the Israel fabric to make them, so I dug out all my large blue pieces (which was easy to do since my organization blitz this past summer) and auditioned them with the brocades. Really the one that looked the best was the 2000 fabric, but did I want curtains with 2000 written all over them? I was not sure. Denise came over, looked at them, said you couldn't really tell it was 2000 unless you got up close. I decided to go for it.
So far I like how they are turning out. What I like most is the things the fabrics remind me of -- my son, my daughter-in-law, Israel, starting to quilt in 1999. Oh, didn't I mention that before? Yes, this quilt with the 2,000 pieces was going to be only my second official quilt. Again, what was I thinking?
Here's the braid so far. I'm sewing it with my serger since the brocades are very ravelly, if that's a word. It's going swimmingly. I type a little, sew a little, type a little, sew a little. I hope to have them finished sometime next week. I'll take another picture of them hanging when I do. Happy Y2K8!
2 comments:
It's beautiful Aunt Kaye!! You are very ambitious to make a quilt for Y2K, even having the idea is more than I would have thought of. I look forward to seeing the finished product.
I love reading about your quilting. Truthfully, at this stage in my life it is almost as fun as doing it. I love your y2k8 quilt! Lori told me all about how she heard a quilter refer to your blog on her podcast. You are famous! You always have been "famous" in my eyes.
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