PQ 16.1 Cryptids Uncle

This is where I gave up on my first challenge piece for Project Quilting Season 16.  I didn't really give up.  I just decided that I was not going to be able to get it finished in the time allotted while staying true to the vision.  I did not want to compromise on what I think is going to be a really cool quilt.

Not a lot of story here.  I just started drawing, digitizing and stitching cryptids.  I actually drew 12 of them and digitized 11.  I only stitched out 9.  (Unicorns are hard).  I kept stealing cryptid ideas from Challenge quilt chat.  Anything was easier than that elusive unicorn.  

I know the rough sketch of the Very Shy Monster who lives under the bed and collects happiness to save for a gloomy day doesn't exactly look like the sketch.  I figure turnabout is fair play.  I can't ever draw what I see in my head.  SO it is only reasonable that I can make what I sketch in fabric.

A Very Shy Monster.  No bed.  No zipper.  But I might start making tote bags with him on them.  Anyone want one?

Nessie.  Just a bit of her.  Because, unlike the shy monsters who will jump out and hug you if they like you, Nessie is camera shy.  

So camera shy that by the time I got her in focus, all I could see what a bit of her tail.

Cthulu.  Again just a glimpse as he swam out of sight.

CT is a lot more steam punk than I knew,

The Nine Tailed Fox.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about the fabric either but I had to use stash and I am woefully lacking in brown and orange and anything else that looks like fox,

 

PQ 16.2 Uncle v2 Unfinished, Unironed, Untrimmed, Unispired 'Umbre' Quilt

You know that sinking feeling when you've spent the entire week knowing that you were absolutely NOT going to make a quilt for week 2? When even the fleeting notion of a bookmark of last resort is too much to contemplate? When you are completely uninspired by the challenge (sorry Trisha Priewe Frankland )? When your only glimmer of a fun project is shot down in the chat and is probably beyond the contents of your scrap bin?

And yet...

There you are. Standing in Hobby Lobby trying to buy buttons at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. When three bolts of fabric start screaming at at you at the top of their little linty lungs. It is hard. But you turn your back trying to find the proper size buttons. But you realize they aren't shouting. They are singing. (Poorly, because they only have little linty lungs after all.). You can just make out the words. It is something like, "We can show you a quilt. Show you fabric by fabric. Just find us two pretty friends...".

And there it is. A fully formed image in your mind. A quilt you can make in your sleep. And you don't even have to calculate yardage. Except it is Friday. Afternoon. And you have obligations all day and evening on Saturday.

Yeah. Sucks to be me. I present to you the Unfinished, unironed, untrimmed, uninspired 'Umbre' quilt. 44*64. Made from absolutely nothing in my stash in hours squeezed out of a rock, turnip and a hard place.

But it is at least a flimsy so I can't call it a UFO by my standards.

 

By the way... look at those corners!  And I wasn't really trying that hard.  Guess measuring carefully and practicing your seam allowances is a good thing.  

Oh, and I know, one of those two friends turned out to be a mean girl. But Hobby Lobby closes at 8 so whatcha gonna do?