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Sunny · 2008-11-22T00:51:16+00:00

A friend and I make quilts together to donate. Mostly to the fostercare group here. But she's now in the Children's Hospital guild(Seattle hospital) and they need fun, bright quilts for teens who willbe staying a long time. So her idea was we would make faces, 18"squares, that would be bright and funny. I got started and it was likepaper dolls. It really suited the part of me that always made thefaces green and the lips purple in coloring books and I grabbed outbatiks and whipped up three really fun faces. (no, I can't postpics .....)When I showed them to her yesterday she sort of gasped and grabbed myhand and took me straight to her friend who is also a professionalartist (both of them are published, hung in galaries, etc) and theysaid I can't give these away and they have to be framed and put inshows and then they started talking about books and patterns and thelike.Then we went to our LQS and the owner wanted to know what pattern Iused. When I told her it's mine, she explained what steps to take.Over the next YEAR. It involves a good more faces (wheee it's fun) andsome quilt shows and writing down everything I think about and theprocess and then teaching some classes for the LQS and then theyintroduce me to the quilt book publishers they know. (And she doesn'treally like me that much)Whoof.That's the sound of air leaving my stomach quickly. I just made funfaces.So I'm going to try this, but it's a long term kind of thing. That'sdefinitely not me. I have no staying power. I don't buy green bananas.I've been known to make a salad of seedlings because the lettuce wastaking too long to grow.The faces are a lot like my Red Riding Hood character. Matter of fact,she's going to be resurrected and I'm going to make her face big andpretty.This all sounds weird I know and it sounds silly to me, but dang itwould be good to do something that might result in me making a fewdollars.You guys think I can pull this off? You know me pretty well. I'mskittery and have the attention...

Nov 22, 2008 20 Replies

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Sandy 17 years ago

Aren't we all friends? ;)

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