Dear Readers,
A few years ago, I saw a pattern called Potions by Flying Parrot Quilts. When I saw it, I immediately thought of my school bestie, Rochelle who taught Chemistry and Physics. Well life went on and earlier this year, Rochelle was contemplating retirement, so I figured I better get it together and make that quilt, so I bought the background fabric and shelf fabric and kitted up all the test tubes, flasks and beakers. When I went to Sue's for craft week in January, I made about 6-8 test tubes. When I got home, I quilted up the quilt top we had made for Sue's new grand and also finished a mini-quilt. Once I got those done, I picked back up on The Lab. I finished the top and got the back ready, but then was out of town for 3 different trips and I was having trouble wrapping my brain around how to quilt it.
I knew immediately that I was going to do some kind of woodgrain on the shelves. So then I watched how Angela Walters quilted Tula Pink's quilt where she did vials of potions in a more random design. That gave me some inspiration to get started. While I am no Angela Walters, her quilting was definitely the inspiration for what I did. Here is a picture of Angela with Tula's quilt.
I just used scrap fabrics for the contents of the vials and I tried to do something a little different on each of those. Here are some close ups of the quilting.
I put Chemisty fabric on the back with green strips because I knew Rochelle was not afraid of color. So here is a picture of the back and the label.
zoom in to see the quilting. The vials were done in white thread and the background in a light orange.
I gave it to her last week, she was thrilled! So fun!
Sew on,
Terry
