Freebie alert!
Now you can give them to the people who get your quilts. Download the freebie below by clicking on the button.
This is what it looks like: four to page. Print it out on cardstock, cut it apart and pass them out with your quilts.
I did have an old Quilt Care Card, but when my sister Susan needed one for the quilt she was making, I rustled up a new one. Much better.
As a person who often wishes she’d studied graphic design (our as they sometimes reference it: surface design) in college, I’ve been amazed by all the graphics I saw on our nightly broadcasts of the Olympics. I want to do something with them all, like making a heart block seen above. Or that very cool half-circle in segments. Another color way is below:
Here’s some links to gaze at, if you’d like seeing some of the graphics in motion:
The cool pictograms denoting the different sports
You know that box the Olympians receive with their medals? Here’s what’s inside.
I liked the little video on this post.
And the connection between the pictograms and a few sports.
Oh. Okay. (Need to update my thinking.)
We went over to The Cheech [museum] last week, on the last day of Judith Hernández’s exhibit, most done in pastel chalks. So many intrigued me, but the two ladies on either side of this triptych were “clad” in the embroidered designs from huipils, a typical dress.
Here’s a snapshot of the huipil I brought back from Guatemala in 2019, when I visited my sister Cynthia (she has since returned from her church mission), and she took me to so many interesting places that involved needles, thread, looms, cloth. I could have stayed a week, but we only had a weekend.
Here we are, clowning around in a woven shawl. Don’t worry; I bought a couple.)
Three women, one of them just crowned Queen of her Village, all wearing huipils (woven and embroidered tops).
Patchwork quilt made of woven scraps, with some embroideries here and there. Somewhere I have about 10 of these parches, tucked away (of course). This entire post has more information if you are interested.
But back to the tryptich, above.
In the linked video, Hernández explains the iconography of the red ram in the center image. It’s that thing that seems to come around and interrupt the smooth flow of whatever you are doing. Of course, I’m paraphrasing. I’m all too aware of red rams in my life, in the life of friends far away, in our families. I loved that this idea was put into a visual image.
My husband and I walked on the beach this last week, as we had a mini-celebration for our anniversary. The waves drawing out the different grains of sand into patterns fascinated me.
Celebrate the bits and pieces of surface design you run across in your lives–
Post Script:
One can never have too much paper or too many pencils. The pencil above is a quilt clapper made by Modern American Vintage, with the loot from the Field Notes most recent sale: I’m a sucker for small notebooks. The pencil below is a Blackwing, purchased last year. It glows 🙂 in the dark!
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I, too, lament not having learned more graphic design – but surrounded by designers all day every day, I became spoiled. I miss them, but I miss the big a** engineering printer more. 😁 There is a sculpture installation by an indigenous artist at the Cleveland, Museum of Art, and I’m gonna run down with Madeleine to see it this week. CMA – Always free! Such a treasure! Have a stupendous week. Joyeux anniversaire! (In tribute to the closing of the Olympics! )
and just a brief quilt care comment- I washed a Gridster quilt this week that I had apparently not washed before. ❤️🤍💙 Luckily, I threw in some color catchers, because they came out Red red red. So if you’re not sure, throw some in.
Lovely post as always Elizabeth! I’ll be having some serious talks with that red ram and tell him to move on! Thank you for the quilt care cards. If I ever start making quilts again and decide to give them away, I will be including one of these. And a glow-in-the-dark pencil – how fun! Happy mini-anniversary!
thanks for the quilt care instructions. This is perfect for all the kid quilts I give away.
Thank you for the lovely designed quilt care instructions. I always include a few color catchers when I gift quilts, but these will be nice to add too.
I’m looking forward to seeing which design you choose for the quilt.
OK, third try on comment. WordPress seems to be mad at me. In summary, I enjoyed the care cards, the unusual fabrics, and the office supplies 😀