Quilt @ MindSay

Wow!  It's been 5 months since I’ve posted here!!!

 

Well... What's happened? In chronological order:

 

- My Dad got married and my parents-in-law came over to attend the wedding.

- We got two new kittens, Zeppelin and Kashemere, they are adorable. Zeppizoo is very mischievious, hehe...

- I graded A-Level this year.

- I've started on a new baby quilt but it's not ready yet and I’m too busy to finish it as of now.

- I spent summer studying for aggregation which I’ll be taking next January.

- We went to Rock en Seine to see the concert of Rage Against The Machine and it was great!

- I got sent to work the whole year in Amplepuis, which is 2 and a half hours of train to go and the same back. I wonder how I’ll survive the year... really...

- I've started to attend courses for agregation, some of them are interesting, other not so much... I must say that Richard Ford's writing is not my favourite. However, we also have to study Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Shakespeare's King Lear, and those are good... so...

 

I'm not sure I thought of everything, but it's quite a sum up already... I'll try to keep this up as well as I can...

 

Last night i had a dream. a really strange dream. i was going on a field trip with my class (i am well over with school) and we were goinbg to this old masion on a little island out in the middle of a lake. as we were walking the tour me, my friend Val and another girl went away from the class. we were looking around and found this room full of old dusty quilted beds. then we started to hear really scary sounds. like screams and such. so we all three hid under a quilt on a bed. we waited and all of a sudden there was this mass right by me. we pulled the cover down and we saw this very hamdsome vampier laying RIGHT by me! my friends screamed and ran away. but i didn't. i just looked at him. he was so hot, skinny but built, nice clean hair, no face hair, nice evil but nice smile, and dark sinking eyes. we didn't talk, just looked into each others eyes. then we were suddenly in his room, same bed, but his room. a very swank pimped out room. we laughed, joked, talked, everything was bliss. then his phone went off and he started texting some one. i asked what was going on and he showed me a movie on his phone. it was a vampier woman who was talking to him, saying how much she loved him and that she was so glad she was having his child and that she would see him in the morning when he was done with me. i was mad. really mad. agai i was in the stupid thought of everythig going good. i told him if i was to be with anyone it would have to be a very very very closed relationship. he just shrugged his sholders and i woke up.

 

This dream tells me that no matter what i do i can never find a guy that is just right. i've dated all types of guys and they all have somthing wrong with them. cheating, drugs, rudness, stupidty. all of them bad in some big way that i just can't pass as a little thing. no matter what, guys ae not going to change. i just want to find one. but not now. this just tells me that there isn't a guy out there that is really really good.

 

 

P.S. i think the vampier thing was just from me playing SIMs 2 where there are vampiers in SIMs Nightlife.

Bat quilt completed!  Didn't take very long either.  The bats weren't nearly as difficult to quilt on as the guitars were.  It is nice and cozy to sleep under, and I think it will get good use.  I shall post pictures of both later this week as soon as I'm able to take some good shots.

I do have quite a wish list of quilts I'd like to make, but I need to figure out either what pattern to make, or what fabric to use.  On my list of to-dos is a book quilt for my mom, and one for my other half, who has yet to receive one of his own. 

So who's next.  I pick....Nomad!  You had asked, and if you like a more modern quilt, I'm up for the challenge.  I have an idea in my head, but I'm not sure if our visions will mix or match.  I see something similar to the bat quilt in terms of a "pattern" but using bright large bold floral print (ala Marimekko - but their fabric can get way expensive) and I'm picturing it in bright orange and red.  This would be an excellent collaboration project!  Drop me an email (or maybe we can Skype - it's been awhile!!!) and we can discuss!

Here are the three fabrics that I'll be using on the front of the bat quilt...





But keep in mind the gray will only be about a 1" stripe in the middle and the binding around the edge.

The back I'd like to be this fabric:


with this fabric as an accent somewhere:

So yes, I finished the guitar quilt this summer.  It looks awesome.  It's used nightly.  All are happy.

But of course, now it's Halloween time.  This means it's time for bats.  I love bats.  Even though I once had an encounter with one in my apartment on Hallows Eve, I still think they are cute.  Especially silly cartoony looking ones.  So...  my next plan is to create a "bat quilt".  This is my grand idea anyhow.  I was thinking of creating a spin off on one the designs from The Modern Quilt Workshop (much like I did with the guitar quilt), but I think I'll be crazy and do something simple like Denyse Schmidt's "A Day at the Beach"  Well, whatever direction I decide to go in regards to the piecing (I'm beginning to think that DS's Beach would be the best way to go), I do know that I want the quilting to be rows of bats.  Ooh!  Title already in my head...

I'm thinking that the front will be shades of black/white/gray.  The backing I may piece together, but would love to include some fun Halloween print fabric.  So excited!  I love the planning phase!  I can't wait to get started...