Finished UFO's and A Moth Critter

Batman finally gets his bunny pillow. In spite of early misgivings, he had the tact to be thrilled and to oh and ah for an appropriate amount of time. He's very good at saying the right thing and shouted, "Oh! Just what I always wanted!" when I gave it to him. He seemed to have forgotten his previous criticisms about the unlikelihood of a rabbit wearing shorts.

The next one I make will have to be from his drawing, as I promised him that after I made his sister's robot pillow.


This is a detail of the back of my "Pearl Harbor" quilt that I just finished binding. I'd sent it away to a lovely woman in S.C. to machine quilt and got it back a week or so ago. The planes and islands reminded me of Pearl Harbor. I'm probably the only one who makes that connection. The planes are all American planes (someone with very little imagination pointed that out to me)and aren't all war planes. Well, the feel of it was "pearl harborish" to me, anyway.


This is the complete back. I can't do solid sheets of fabric for the backs because I get too bored. I try, but just can't. I've always wanted to make a two color quilt, but I'm not sure I could keep my color greedy mitts out of the tint and hue till. I'm too easily swayed by a pretty color.
Here's the front. I designed my own block and learned quite a bit about what not to do and why certain things don't work. Maybe I should have called it "tropical chaos." Well, it's cheerful in the bleak days of winter.

I bought this sweater at the Salvation Army and then washed it and dried it so I could make some fuzzy little critters out of it. Sadie drew a moth and I got all excited about the striped body that I thought she'd drawn. When she saw it, she poked her lip out and insisted she had not drawn stripes on her moth. I insisted she had. We rooted around and found the original drawing. Damn if she wasn't right! She had drawn it on notebook paper and somehow my eyes had seen the notebook paper lines as stripes. (So, I stand corrected, or "I stand correctly" as she likes to say.)


So this version has been totally rejected--she said I could keep it. And now I will be making another version from an old purple sweater she outgrew and doing it "correctly" this time and putting spots on the wings. It's so nice to have inhouse critics to keep me on the straight and narrow.