#marymannakee was picked up and Lorraine showed it to our hand Applique group. I wasn’t able to be at meeting but I assumed it had gone off with a BANG! A couple weeks later I see a mutual friend who comments on Lorraine’s Mary that it “looked quite yellow”. Mentally I think…well that happens with a 14 year old hand appliquéd quilt. Oils from hands and all that. Out loud I say… “yeah, there was a spot that was discolored. It happens.” I move on. Thank God that Lorraine is a wonderful human and a perfect client. She calls me! Nicely asking if there is something she can do about the yellowing…. WHAT?!? Like for real, WHAT are you talking about?!? No way that one spot can be it. So I meet up with my dear friend and….. it’s AWFUL! The quilt has turned yellow. Not an “ohhh look at that age” yellow but a “did someone pee on that” yellow! I DIED. I took Mary home. I asked around to the best of the best in our field and was informed that YES, sometimes when you add baking soda to the water to remove the blue lines… it can and will turn YELLOW. Dead again. I marked ALOT on Mary. This quilt is a swan song. It is amazing and it has amazing quilting and it’s freaking YELLOW…. Mentally after the year I have had I just wanted to throw in the towel sell everything I own and go work at Starbucks. “HI, may I take your order?” @helloiamjoshuajames tells me to grow up…MANY people do not LOVE their job and I should consider myself lucky that I have/do have a job I normally LOVE. I think of smothering him with a goose down pillow. The only thing to do is to stay in town and get the job done. So I unpack my car and put away the down pillow😂 It needs to be fixed. This quilt is 108” square. So I cleaned my tub and cleared out my living room. I rinse the quilt (twice) in just cold water, pray it doesn’t bleed, drain, spin in the washer and stake it to the insulation set up in my living room. I put two fans on it over night. Then I wait….. #bluemarkingpen #lisascreativequilting #lisaarndt #handapplique #innovalongarmquilting #customquilter (at LisasCreativeQuilting.com) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYJ7Es2LGH8/?utm_medium=tumblr
