Violets II – In Progress
Hand Pieced, Hand – Appliqued
Waiting for Ruched Violets to be added
JoAnn Fabrics, Quilter’s Garden – QBOM (1996)
Violets II – In Progress
September 18, 2008 at 5:17 pm (Quilter's Garden, Quilting, applique, sewing)
Tags: applique, flower, Quilter's Garden, quilting, sewing, violet
Violets I - In Progress « The Nomadic Quilter said,
September 20, 2008 at 5:31 pm
[...] Violets II – In Progress, Violets III – In Progress There is a story for why this block is not finished yet — why the leaves are appliqued and it is still waiting for me to add the ruched violets: In 2003, we had a minor disaster in our truck. Incident, perhaps might be a better word. It could have been a disaster of monumental proportions. It happened one day that we were home for the weekend. We parked the truck in the driveway, and slept in the house. The next morning, I went to the truck and opened the driver’s side door. A cloud of smoke billowed out when I opened the door, accompanied by a foul, melted plastic smell. A panicked investigation revealed the culprit: the night previous, when exiting the truck — somehow my husband or I had bumped the burner knob on the stove, so that it was just barely “on”. That would not have been much of an emergency, except that my plastic tackle box sewing kit had been sitting on the burner. We were left with a melted puddle of plastic on the burner, and a horrendous odor. After much cleaning and airing out, I managed to eliminate most of the smell. I did not lose too much from my sewing kit, but one of the causalities was the pre-cut strips of purple and lilac fabric that was to have been ruched into the violets. I did learn my lesson — remove the knobs from the stove when not in use so that they could not so easily be accidentally turned on. And not to put anything on the burner that did not belong there. [...]