Tick Tock, Tick Tock....

Yes, I'm still waiting, not so patiently, for my camera to be repaired.   I didn't realize how often I pick it up to capture a spontaneous image in the lens.   Yikes, it feels like my life is on hold.   Sigh...so as I wait for the camera guru to finish up, here are some more "oldies but goodies" photos from my archive.  

If you "double click" with your mouse on the images, you will get a closer look at the quilt.   This quilt was made for a client who brought her niece's t-shirts from various stage shows and asked that they be turned into a memory quilt for her.   The shirts were simply cut into the same size rectangles and sashed with black fabric.  

 The horizontal sashing in between the rows was machine quilted in handwriting listing the names of famous theaters on Broadway in N.Y.C.   Can you see the writing in white thread?

Then, find of all finds!    I came across this orchestra fabric and used it horizontally for the top and bottom borders and finished the quilt off with black fabric that had musical notes and scales in white.

I struggled to think of an interesting way to create a quilt label for the back of the quilt until I hit upon the idea of duplicating a Playbill like the ones handed out at Broadway shows, only with the quilt recipients own special information on it.  I simply sewed together yellow, black and white fabrics and imprinted the wording from my computer printer directly onto the fabrics. 

Theme completed!

Still waiting,

Debbie