Coastal Quilters Chapter Banner #4
Maine is home to many outdoor enthusiasts, as the phrase goes. OK. People here like to have fun, and for many of them that involves getting outside and enjoying our beautiful state. Kayaking on both lakes and coast is common, and everywhere you see kayaks for sale or rent along the coast and on the inland lakes.
Leigh Smith is a devoted member of Coastal Quilters and works hard when she isn’t commuting to work in the Boston area (she’s a nurse). But she is a beginning quilter…I’d say she did a phenomenal job! I gave her a basic pattern for a kayak, but she did research at our local sporting goods store, Maine Sports (on Hwy.l 1 in Rockport–also good for raiding the fly fishing department for goodies to stick on art quilts!) to get the details right. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the handles at the ends (jewelry findings from Wal-Mart!) and the hatch cap (or whatever they call that round screw-cap thing-y…we have kayaks but I haven’t a clue) which is really a button detailed with a sharpie with a paddle logo!
And Janet Knapp made this quirky lobster using one of my patterns. I had omitted the legs, and her first comment was “where are the legs?!” So she chain stitched them in–perfect! I love his tentacles/feelers, too. And as you can tell from the bright red, he’s already been boiled … where’s the butter?
April 24th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Wow, these gals are doing such a neat job. Yummmmm…I don’t eat lobster except in Maine…it just doesn’t taste the same. One Mainer told us that the lobstermen take lobsters home and put them on the floor…and the one that moves the quickest he keeps and eats. Again…yummmm.