speakin' o' havin' a bad memory....long ago when i first started the bloggin' i tried to convince doo dad'ers everywhere to step away from the scrapbooks and experiment with their vaults o' treasured digital deliveries in other venues. i put up a view o' a quilt i made with a portrait mini gave me for mother's day made by printin' out the art on one big piece o' fabric and then doin' the quiltin'....rather than cuttin' all the lil pieces and sewin' 'em together as in traditional quiltin'. i had promised to blog up some more examples of this technique and then plum forgot to do so....so...it may be two year's late but here it is!pictured here are three o' the many quiltin' projects made in this cheatin' way: pink girls for one o' my best friends judy, a canine cover for mini's daddy featurin' every dog he ever owned (the ones that are no longer with us are wearin' halos) and one i started for mini's fifth grade teacher bordered with a lil pieced pupil for each student along with their names. i never did give it to her...this was the year i abandoned mini for the first time to be with my mom before she died and the teacher was less than kind and understandin' to the situation. i must admit to takin' great pleasure recently in choppin' it to bits to make a new set o' doo dads for moland...where everyone is always kind and understandin'!
if you want to give a cheatin' quilt a whirl you can get some warm up instructions in my blog from may 2005 - i can't remember how to make a link so copy and paste this in your browser bar: http://mojackson.blogspot.com/2005/05/mini-mos-quilted-mom.html. after that just do a bit o' googlin' and you'll have no problem findin' a flurry o' better information than i offered up. if you do end up makin' somethin' please send me a picture as i'd love to see!
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