Walking Dead

Walking Dead, a photo by Mule Hill on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
2" blocks. 25" total. Inspired by a quilt top or cheater cloth used as a curtain in Season 4 episode 4 of the Walking Dead.

It might remain forever unfinished, intentionally, if I use it as a wallhanging. If used as a teeny tiny dog blanket or chair topper, I'll have to sandwich and quilt it.

I am grateful for the distraction this little mini has provided me this week. I have thrown my back out and was getting quite bored. I thought about how I saved episodes of the first half of a season on the DVR while Mr Mule was deployed and how we watched them during leave. Then I saved the second half of that season and watched them after deployment. It's hard to save shows on a DVR for a year! Try it. The cable company gives me like 20 slots and that's it. Anyway, a TV show about an apocalypse has some nice memories attached to it.

I am visually diminished, as I like to say, so I wanted it to be busier than the one on the show. Many dots and ditsies. Truly scrappy. Goal achieved.

It was originally 11 by 10 rows. When I added a row to the length, I should have moved the blue row from the 7th row to the 8th row. I do like how it looks if turned on its side with the blue row on the left side.

I have cut up a phone book and a local freebie newsprint style magazine. Hundreds of foundation pieced blocks coming soon. A tip to remember: leave the papers in until you actually sandwich it. Your forever UFO'd quilt top might be one of the few things left to read in a post apocalyptic world. No internet. No Kindle. No bookstores. Who knows? Maybe no libraries.

"Ooh, look! Someone foundation pieced a quilt top with a newspaper from 2013."

"Cool! What's it say?"