service & devotion

My friends’ are having a baby and I decided to help with the nursery decorating. They live in a superb four-plex in West University, for the first year or so that they lived there they had an elderly neighbor named Mrs. T who resided in the apartment building for the last 40(?) years. I never met her, but I heard lots of stories about her fabulous wardrobe, her stories and her interesting antics which after a while, started started crossing the line from humorous dementia to a not-so-funny situation. Her family eventually intervened and took her to a new home and in the process-  cleaned out her apartment and lifelong possessions via a dumpster parked in the driveway. As sad as the situation became, we all kinda scored from the clean out of Mrs. T’s belongings.  An awesome breakfast set that lives on my patio, a stair stool (you know the vintage vinyl and chrome kitchen bar stool -jobbie that turn into a step stool), some clothes and also- a bag of vintage scrap fabric. I had no idea what to make with any of it- a quilt (I don’t quilt), Wha?

Results?

FLAGS! I combined Mrs. T’s vintage fabrics with some scraps from all the thrifted skirts I buy and chop and hem. Then I sewed it up with some wonder under, some pinked edges, some francophilian type ribbon and a zig zag detail. I prolly went WAY overboard with the heavy duty construction technique, but I wanted them little flaggies to have a little but of substance to them. (Maybe the unborn baby Tess will take them to college and hang them in her dorm room?)

In addition,  I recently found this awesome vintage print on wood at an estate sale for $8. So fun!

I had extra triangles that I started playing with- and I then constructed a big flower to Festoon something with…

I  impressed myself with this creation!

I hope to take some pictures of the whole shebang when Mrs. Getman starts to decorate! She has marvelous taste- and does a lot of DIY furniture work. I am sure her Nursery is going to be splendid!