Do You Poop Out at Parties? (Edited 8/4)

I'm attending a baby shower this Sunday, so this past weekend I pulled out the remaining flannel pieces from this and this project (started five years ago in an effort to use up mask-making scraps). In with them was a hunk of corduroy, roughly 36" x 42", which looked to be perfect for the backing and also dictated the size of the quilt.

I made a final, fatal dent in those scraps and created this little cutie:

32" x 40"

Any scraps too small for a string quilt (they need to be at least 1"x4") went into the trash, finally. The string bin got its share of the remains, as did the ever-revolving box o' scraps for the eternal 2.5" border roll. No more collecting or collection of little flannel scraps!

I quilted this using these threads. The thread used on the top (at the right in this picture) is King Tut Sphinx #996. I didn't realize I had the spool label poorly aligned when I took this shot.

Bottom                             Frames              Other top areas

As you can see, the Sinai blended in beautifully on the back:

I used a utilitarian wavy line throughout. I'm making no bones about the fact that this quilt is made to be used, not cherished as a future heirloom. My standard description to/for the mother will comment on the fact that it's made to be spit-up-, drooled-, spilled-, and shat-upon.

But here's the kicker: this is the first one I've made in which part of those "instructions" is included in the quilt!

I never noticed this perfect placement until I was pin basting. This is one of the final scraps from a flannel piece featuring the I Love Lucy episode in which she gets a job as the "Vitameatavegamin Girl". An absolute classic, and even knowing what's coming, I still burst out laughing the first three times she swallows the product ("It tastes just like candy!") Anyway, this was part of the quote that makes up this blog's title.

I was quite certain that larger hunks of that fabric had been used in an abandoned fringe quilt I started for my eldest when he was accepted to UT Austin (Engineering). So to further document this blog, I climbed the step stool and pulled down the "fabric" bin holding all the orphan blocks, fabrics, and pieces of that project. To my dismay, I discovered the "fabric" bin holding that project wasn't made of fabric at all, but rather of that fake, cheap, fabric-y stuff used to create most promotional tote bags.

Guess what? It disintegrates.

A rotted-out bottom. I'm surprised and grateful everything stayed in the bin while I hoisted it out of its cubby.

To my further dismay, that fabric wasn't involved in this project at all. Time to shoehorn this into the queue and get it out of orphan status and into my son's new house!

(Added 8/4)

I found the main hunk of the I Love Lucy fabric. It has literally been right behind me for decades--I made the back of my bathrobe from it!