‘It’s an Emergency’ …
Robyn R
When you’re on a roll, there’s just no stopping!
While exploring the stash it’s a trip through time, and the stages of a patchwork journey, to uncover forgotten bits and pieces! Time disappears while thinking, wondering and remembering. Got plenty of that during these pandemic restrictions, so it’s not wasted!
Came across this panel, and uh oh - how to make a quilt with it? Raided boxes to find just enough spotted fabric (they were in 20cm strips), along with some grey, to make the four-patch using the 5-inch square technique (as explained in ‘Five becomes Four‘). Managed to get 4 rows for the top and bottom of the panel - phew!
As to quilting the huge ‘It’s an Emergency!’ panel, another dilemma. Thought to continue the cross-hatching but decided that it would visually break up the elements of the image, and it’s such a large clear picture, so here we go again - more free-motion tracing! Black thread top and bobbin, free-motion stay-on-the-lines tracing, slowly stitching around windows, vehicles, paths and everything else, even the skinny lamposts - on a roll, where to stop? Don’t bother - just keep going until you run out of lines!! Aaaagh means lots more tying off threads - again! But it’s worth it - the picture stays unspoiled. 
A section from the back shows the free-motion tracing.
Well, it’s been posted to a young boy in the Greater Geelong area, so we’ll see how long it will take to get there.
The Fairy panel ( ‘Free motion tracing), and this small quilt (ruler quilting on this one),
were posted 2 weeks ago. They went to ‘Alexandria NSW, having a lovely holiday, going to restaurants and not wearing a mask’, then stayed a while in Sydney while we (sister & I) wondered ‘if Flat Stanley is with them!’. Destination - from Coburg to the foot of the Dandenongs! Still not delivered, so I wonder at what stage of the ‘roadmap out of COVID’, will the postie pick up the pace! (Or should that be ‘parcel’!).
Stay safe and have fun exploring your stash. Hope you unearth some treasures along the way.
Robyn
Your panel looks lovely love the back. I did free motion quilting on my “twelve days of Xmas” quilt and did gum leaves all over. Looks interesting from back
Love the running commentary, I have a feeling a lot of us run through all that thinking as we work.