You can imagine, I'm sure, that it takes a lot of ties to make a quilt. And you may be thinking at the same time, who wants to do that anyway? But creative people just see things differently. (I seldom put myself in that category of persons, sigh...)
But back to the ties. I had a hunch that between my various male in-laws, there would probably be a little stash of no-longer-used, no-longer-wanted, slightly out-of-date or soiled ties in Barbara's color - primarily red. And I was not wrong! Larry and Barry, seldom needing ties in their retirement, had some lovely ones to donate. Joey, since he's trying to get rid of the banker-as-a-guy-always-in-a-tie image, also had a few he was more than willing to part with. So we had quite a collection to donate.
And so we went to visit. Back to the site of my accident! Barbara and Charlie were forever saying Watch your step! I do. I did. I will. After the obligatory Kaffee + Kuchen (yummy homemade treats from last summer's fruit) we looked a the quilt-in-progress.
It's basically a log cabin pattern, but done with strips in the stripes and continuing on and on - it's one huge log cabin block.
She opens the ties and presses them and adds iron-on backing to stabilize the silk and then sews them together to make the longer strips. There are a few ties with some history of course. And interestingly, she's saved all the labels which will become the binding for the finished quilt.
Then we had a painting lesson. I had already done some fabric "printing" after our first visit, but having a lesson was useful. She gathered some flowers and leaves and then we helped make a "sampler" to take home for reference. Even the sampler is pretty!
Now to make some of my own for the craft show at the end of March. I'd better get busy - there's not much time!
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