A group blog for working on UnRuly Quilting projects and most especially UnRuly Letters. What is UnRuly? Liberated, wonky, improvisational, mis-matched, points cut off FUN.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How I Spent My Long Holiday Weekend!


I couldn't figure out how to put more than one picture in a post, and have them end up in different parts of the text, so here's part two!


This was an experiment to see if I could do words in bricks, and make a complete piece, rather than just a lot of random letters and words. The quilt will probably be hung in my office. I work for a non profit agency that serves senior citizens -I'm part of our arts program. This is one of my favorite quotes about aging, and I thought it would make a fun, upbeat piece for people to see when they come by our offices to see a social worker, or discuss our programs.
I LOVE how it turned out - even though I am still sort of feeling my way around the heights and spacing of the letters. My favorite part was figuring out how to do the apostrophes!
I'm not sure the border on the bottom is going to stay, or whether I'll do another one. I know I don't want to border it all around, the binding will take the place of borders on the sides.
Now some other work is intervening, so I won't have time to do much in the next couple weeks, but I am really fired up to do more. Thanks to Tonya, for freeing me from my quilting funk!

10 comments:

deborah said...

I love it!

Clare said...

It's wonderful. Congrats.

Cindy said...

Love it!!

Ann Champion said...

I love this! Won't it be fun to see the reaction your quilt gets? :)

Nifty Quilts said...

I love this!! Your colors, the quote, the lay out, your letters, everything! It'll brighten the days of so many. Congratulations!

LizA. said...

fabulous!

Tonya Ricucci said...

wonderful bright and happy. love seeing you develop your own style of making letters. how about cutting off a third of that bottom border and then adding it to the top???? it seems like it needs some color variation to me. congrats on a fun quilt and I'm sorry life it too busy to let you keep sewing bunches!

Carol E. said...

Love it! WTG.

Hedgehog said...

Love the apostrophes! I've made a few commas - and your solution is so simple and elegant!

Jennifer D said...

I love your font and the colors just SING! Fabulous.