LAYERING FRANKEN-QUILT

                        Here is Franken-Quilt ready to be pinned...


First, I sewed the music fabric long strips on the backing this morning....
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Ironing all the seams open so they wouldn't peek through
the white...and trimming evenly

Then got my batting out--and
of course!! 
It was too small...phooey!!--so I cut a long 7"x 43.5" strip to the side
to make it long enough....zig-zagged it on and....
                                voila..just right!!
                                           ;))))

I had to get on the floor ---oof!--- 
(AND you do NOT need to see THAT picture believe me!) :'000

and  laid out the batting; and measured the
half way points on all my pieces...

Then I rolled the batting and the top together 
so I could then unroll it in place on the backing 
sitting, smoothed out on my dining table....

Phew--that's all for me today....

Tomorrow I will begin my pinning....

That's all from "Franken-ville" today lol

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (done-for-sure-euse)

FRANKEN-FINISHING

I've selected this really old (way down in the Christmas bin) cute
fabric for the center back of Franken-Quilt...Thus sealing its fate as
a complete Christmas piece....

I have tried using this fabric many times and 
it never went with anything else--

So here I featured it as the main piece...

Of course, those curious Christmas puppies had to come and see
what was going on back there...lol

They wanted to play with the children...so I let them stay on...

And added a small border of darker green and pointsettias...

In the background we have music playing--a "side-note"  lol...

My morning was spent measuring and cutting to fit...

And (sigh) doing laundry,  [we are either the cleanest or
the dirtiest two people--laundry is always with us it seems...]

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After a well-deserved cuppa tea, I made us Tom's favorite
chicken and rice casserole...it will go in at 4 and be ready
for 5:30 dinnertime...
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And.............💨
on this frigid day with windchills of
13-17mph we decided to stay inside..
a perk of retirement life--;))))
why go out unless you have to???


Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (Frankenly-finishing-euse)