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An ongoing series (probably) of rescuing and completing unfinished art from thrift stores.
Intro:
Intro:
It often makes me sad to see half-finished artworks for sale at my favorite thrift store. All that effort abandoned! I wonder what happened? Well, last week I saw one I couldn't resist. A beautiful, tiny paper-pieced quilt front with no backing. It was in the scrap bin, being sold for $3.
Someone spent HOURS on this.
The original paper patterns were still sewn into the back.
Taking off the paper was annoying. Remind me never to make a quilt like this. The patterns were from Granny Nanny's, copyrighted 1991!
I had a perfect fabric for the back and used some thin cotton batting pieces I had for a middle layer.
At this point, I got engrossed and took no more pictures. Suffice to say I layered the three layers, added a bias binding edge and spent some time carefully sewing little loops onto the back so I could hang it with a dowel.
Some bias binding loops and a dowel to help me hang it.
The final tiny wall hanging.
It's hanging on my wall, and I think it was worth the work and the $3. I wouldn't be surprised if I did more thrift rescues like this in the future. I really value human effort and handicraft.
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