It was trimming time for the quilt made with Terrie Mangat fabrics.
Then I grabbed the pile of her fabrics to look for a binding.
I was pretty sure I would use the stripe and it looks good with both front and back.
This was the next area for the basement workbench cleaning and organizing. I had piles in front of this area. The fabric is on my worktable to go through later. I have a helper coming Tuesday so I (we) will so some brainstorming and decide what goes in the 3 bottom bins then. The little stack of metal containers with handles were used as little table top wastebaskets when I had a group sewing here. The metal bar is a fringe maker and I think I got it back in the 70s when I had a Viking sewing machine. The white PVC thing is a little hand quilting frame.
I had to show a close up of the workbench top. It was a working workbench for my son, with paint and putty marks on it. We moved to this house when he was 11 (he's 65 now). I have no intentions of refinishing the top; it has too many good memories attached to it.
This group of small size magazines was in this section of the workbench. They are from 1990-92. Most of them were opened to pages of work by Shirley Nilsson.
At the time of these publications I was teaching classes on thread sketching. Even though I didn't use the same technique as Shirley, I was always inspired by her work. Now I'll look through each of these magazines and then probably put them in recycling. It's too hard to locate people who want vintage magazines with articles about people they have never heard of. Since I was in the quilting community teaching (since 1976) I met a lot of the people who were popular and active in the 1990s so the articles interest me.
There was also a pile of photos I need to look through. They were taken at QSDS in Columbus OH and the venues we visited that had art quilting exhibits. I was there as a student 1991-1995 and 2002. On the odd years we also were bused to Quilt National which was a real treat.
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Quilt National…..always an interesting exhibit. Old magazines are, well old, and hard to pass on to anyone. I’ve recycled a lot of them.
So organizing turns into a history lesson- that is pretty cool! Not just random I have no idea what it is- junk. I cleaned off one counter inspired by you yesterday.
What fun Terrie Mangat quilt, Wanda;)))
I see you are continuing to get re-organized. I finally got Posies together and am deciding on borders--always the most difficult part for me it seems;(((
Hot today and a bit sticky out there..71 right now. hugs, Julierose
It's memory lane for you this week! Quilt National is venerable. I've never been though I have acquired a stack of the exhibit catalogs. Back in 2010 my Magpie friend Ellie encouraged me to buy a Terrie M FQ bundle at the Rosemont quilt show. I still have chunks of the prints which bring a smile as I remember her (she's since passed away).
It has been a very interesting week reading about your history as you reorganize and move pieces around. Thread sketching magazine really caught my eye. The detail she achieved was brilliant.
some of the items you are finding are so old aren't they. I never saved magazines all that much and if I did I went through them every couple years figuring if I had forgotten about them I was going to use them. Good memories on the work table!
You are making great progress on the workbench cleanup! Go Wanda! Go Wanda!
You are doing a great job reorganizing and clearing! I'm getting inspired. Don't dare touch that workbench. There are people that would pay a lot to have someone create that patina on a piece of furniture.
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