Cleanup Paintup, Fixup

Or, alternately titled, The Day I Finished Something! TA DA, the Koigu Kimono!



And a few more little pieces of the latest quilt in progress:



Lotsa stuff, eh? I admit things are getting kind of crowded on this, but someone needs to stop me!

Actually I am finished with the top now, tomorrow I will layer it and do some rudimentary hold-it-together stitches and extend some of the leaf shapes out to the border. And I am thinking about another border too, same size as the one on there now but one continulous fabric around the whole thing- we'll see what shows up to be there. If nothing then it is pretty much done now. I just don't want to close any doors .

From the top down, these pictures are of some plastic seaweed toys that each came in the packages of 12 plastic turtles. I loved the golden orange color so scanned them first on pattern tissue (see lowest layer), then on plain white paper which really brought out the color. Next picture is one of the old bug prints I also scanned and have fused and cut out- there are many many bugs on the quilt for the tortugas to get excited about. Next, in the sky dish, are some of thethought balloons for the turtles these are cut from more paper patterns and I am arranging them around the turtle heads, little nonsense bubbles communicating to each other in turtle-thought. And finally, I carved some teensy x's and O's to ectend the X's that were printed into some commercial fabric used way up at the top in a small quiltlet I once used as a class example of following what the fabric tells you to do. The X's and O's cascade down around the plants and turtles. I don't know why.

Well, ya just have to see it.