Brainstorm
Brainstorm 1998
Pattern: from either Quiltmaker or Quilters Newsletter
Magazines. QNM recently featured the pattern in
March 2008 issue.
English paper piece, hand stitched, hand appliqued.
Hand quilted
I got 3 of the whirly thingies put together, and then realized the legs were too long. Back to the computer for resizing and reprinting the paper pieces. I soon was BORED with the whole thing and put aside the finished units. Looking through a fabric catalog I saw the background fabric and the boring bits had a home. The central mass is quilted in a spiral. There are lightening bolts quilted with a flat metalic thread, further embellished with beads.
P.S. It looks much nicer on the kitchen wall now that the awful wall paper is gone. A less than lovely project than was excepted, for it seems the wall board had never been primed. There is now a terra cotta, slightly rough textured paint on the walls.
