The Fabric Giveaway turned a year old on Earth Day--April 22, 2008. I celebrated by putting off updating this blog for a little longer. Actually, I had been thinking about what monumental amounts of my time and effort this little project has ended up taking, and how it seems pointless in a lot of ways, and had pretty much decided to just end it all, and get on with my life. The top picture, one we took near our favorite camping place, sums it up: Mother Nature and I were both feeling burned out.
But then the most amazing things started happening. Everyone seemed to come out of their winter caves, nests, where ever you hole up, bit by bit. I started getting emails, phone calls, pictures, and requests for more fabric.
The second picture is of a wall hanging I made over the winter. I had made some vests and kimono jackets as thank you's for people who are helping me with the giveaway. My idea was for them to wear them to the quilt festival in Houston to advertise what we are doing. (Never having been to that show myself, I had no idea how warm it is in Houston during the show! So the vests and kimonos jackets were variously displayed in a booth, worn for 10 minutes one evening, or carried around and shown, or left at home. But everyone did distribute the little pins I also had made to introduce the giveaway to anyone interested.) I had told everyone they could either keep the garment as it was, or give it back to me and I'd turn it into a wallhanging for them. So that is what is pictured. It's official title is "World Gone Wrong II", but more often I call it "Scary Quilt"; my husband calls it part of my Soapbox Series. It was made using part of one kimono jacket as the base; this was sliced apart and stitched to a woven cotton fabric backing. The sun is made from a rusted coffee filter. It sums up how I was feeling over the winter: uncertain and very burned out.
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