Insert lovely photo of most excellent quilt...below!
Karin decides she will tell me about STAPLIQUE' a new technique for applique which involves the use of a stapler as a means of attaching applique motifs to a block. Yes people you heard me right! STAPLIQUE'.
After I was revived and the paramedics had left the building I began to think about the rest of 2011. This BOM runs through early Fall. Do you think I can hide from you know who until then? Eric Rudolf hid in the Smoky Mountains for years. I could find out about that, and make a run for it. No, that would involve sleeping in a cave and I'm kind of a Ritz Carlton sort of girl. And I really can't eat beans from a can for months on end.
Staplique' maybe she is on to something here. Maybe this would open up a new market for my patterns.
NAHHH...NOPE...ABSOLUTELY NOT.
I talked to Karin, I appealed to her love of sewing. Encouraging her to take up the needle. Respect our quilting ancestors. I talked to her about sewing,reflecting on life, and the joy that comes with the quiet solitude of hand work.
This was her reaction...she mocked me. She mocked me in front of 30 other people. Not only that... she told me that she was going to go to Office Depot and see if she could buy an "air gun stapler" and that she was going to do RAW EDGE SPAPLIQUE'.
I'm leaving...retiring from teaching quilt classes. That is it! I can't take it anymore. Karin is in charge now! The Smoky Mountains can't be that bad.
8 comments:
LOL! You.are.so.funny!!!!
so......maybe I should consider duct tape..or hot glue, double faced tape or may teeny tiny safety pins. But truly my hearat is with the staplique method. AND you only have to hear about this for another six months or so. 2 plastic bags down..4 to go
Hey Pat..This is so funny. But I
understand how Karin feels. Applique always scared me, but when
Melisa at Sweet Home displayed this quilt for BOM I jumped in with both feet ( no fear ) yeah right. But I really have enjoyed it so far. I have finished block 1.
I have done the applique by machine. I am starting on block 2.
Cant wait til it is finished. Thanks so much for this wonderful
pattern.
Carolyn
yo know she may be on to something, what about postalique using post it instead, or maybe... that explains the run on staplers at staples.
tooo funny!
She might be on to something here.
I am also doing this quilt at SH.
Quick question what is the name of the fabric you used for the background in your quilt?
Now really Teacher, what's the difference between using lots of pins and a stapler, ya get holes either way....well other than having to figure out how to get the staples out without tearing the fabric. I'm wonering how many of those 30 ladies went home and tried Staplique and haven't been brave enough to tell you they did????
Crispy
Bless her heart--you know if she actually tried needleturn she would love it (and I can say this now because she is out of the country) bahahahaha
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