enjoyed by a former friend

if you went to art city days you would have been in for a treat this year. here are some of the quilts we saw. and by we i mean me and my parents. at the quilt show we ran into my great aunt who doesnt remember me (or really anyone to be fair) but she remembers she likes quilts. i think this quilt is about joseph smith jr.

you probably cant see this quilt but the little animals in the middle are walruses. a pink blue and green one but you probably can see that part. whoever made this one is clearly awesome.

flags and flowers were common themes.

as were egyptians.

across the street in the art museum there was a flower show. i went over to the art museum to get an entry form for some quilt show they have there but i probably wont get into it so dont get your hopes up. were your hopes up? get them down.

back to the foliage an entry included a doll looking at herself in the mirror. looking good dolly!

there were balloons and cotton candy everywhere of course.

here is my family at the parade. i would put up a picture of myself but i sort of look like an alcoholic in the morning. i dont promote drinking i just look like i do.

we all showed up to support my mom who is on this float. she is obviously the super excited person under the umbrella. she made me pick out a new outfit months in advance but decided not to wear it due to "weather concerns" but really i heard she was worried she was wearing a rival cities colors.

oh yeah at the quilt show i got to talk to my neighbor who makes birds out of garbage and puts them in his yard.

he is making a new chicken out of a toaster or something. he had a clever name for it which i promptly forgot. i was never good with coming up with or retaining clever names other people came up with.

the end.

once elin told me no one would ever love me

but this tortilla is not hiding its feelings.

its like living in seattle these days

i like this one. it has a lot of squares. i cant really remember what i was going for when i was making it. im hoping it was a lot of squares. i started it like two years ago so there is no telling what i was thinking. im making one now that is a lot of stripes. and by making one right now i mean i started sewing it six months ago and now i just sort of think about it sometimes.

nephews and scrap quilts

i have a new nephew lucas. i have never actually seen him awake but i can tell he is pretty fun. i havent made him a quilt but i bet he will eventually get one. if he plays his cards right. also i think he weighed 7'11'' and i immediately got a slurpee to celebrate.

here is my outdoors quilt that i dont want to use outdoors anymore because i like it too much. but, for people interested in outdoor quilts, i got a good suggestion once that you can make little pockets in the corners which you can put rocks in to keep it down in the wind. i didnt do that because its hard.

and on a personal note i could be done with allergy season.

summertime

my friend summer is having a baby and i made this quilt. its really really pink. and blue because i wont be bossed around by gendered colors.

maybe converted tonight

i know i know. you are thinking i (i meaning you) have seen all these quilts. at this point you (you meaning me) are just recycling old pictures of quilts you did forever ago because you live at home with your mom and you havent done anything productive in a month. or two months. maybe it was january.

i live at home with my mom. but i dont really like talking about it.

the purple quilt i made for colleen. i went to visit her in january and i got to see the purple quilt again. the quilt seems to like her st george home.

here is baby e's quilt. she likes to smile and hug and i suspect she is the best baby ever.

i made this quilt in a quilting class. the quilt i was supposed to make looks nothing like this. i was never good with patterns. (seriously i mean nothing) (the other quilt had santas on it or something).

and here is colleen with my nine patch. nine patch seems like a pretty tough name for a quilt. i wish it looked a little more macho. and. although i moved home for a bit i am trying to finish up some projects and get rid of some fabric and there should be some new and exciting stuff on this blog shortly. and by new and exciting i mean sort of more of the same.

the end.

dark is the night

i had a dream which i think stemmed from a conversation with colleen in which she asked what the difference is between a sociopath and a psychopath. i said a sociopath had no empathy and can kill people but be smart about it but a psychopath lost touch with reality and just starts killing people. both are to be avoided. i dont know. its sounds right to me. so then i had a dream that i was at the store and some kids started robbing it. i came back to find that the quilt i had been making my grandma (who wasnt really my grandma because she is dead and it didnt even look like her) was destroyed in the robbery. and i was so annoyed. anyway my grandma had already called the insurance company to make a claim on the quilt. they were giving her $3 a yard. but then the kids came back and they started killing everyone and i kept trying to call 911 but i called all the other number variations of 911 instead.

and, i just finished one of my favorite quilts so far. i gave it to brian as the sole follower of surging urges. he claims he doenst have a camera and he flushed his phone down the toilet which i thought only happened in movies so the quilt is not pictured. imagine a really good one.