Do What You Know...

I found the theme of challenge #3
to be....
a challenge!

As you recall, I had a couple of false starts before
I did what I know
and I ended up creating these...

Well, not really these.

But this...

Yes, it is really just ONE quilt!!!

I started with a couple of photos of my cutting table in its often state of disarray

(yes, I am not proud of it but it is reality!)

 I edited them using tools in Picnik,

printed three of them on muslin,

and bordered  the photos using a couple of 

my sunprints that have tools...
safety pins...

and 

scissors...

I then tried my hand at thread sketching
(I took a class with Nancy Prince last year and never finished the project,

but hey! I learned a lot!)

and added a piece of velcro on the back of the rotary cutter.

Then I got the idea that this is by no means the only tool
that gets lost on my cutting table, so...
since I had a piece of velcro on the front of the quilt
to hold my rotary cutter....




I also added a strip of velcro to the back of the quilt..

to hold my extra tools
while I display one on the front...

depending on what disaster has afflicted me for the moment.

And yes...
there are days when I feel that I have lost
one of the most basic tools I have...

(my brain!)