What's Wrong With This Picture?

Now this is a novel concept.  Not sure if it would work for me so much, but interesting idea. 

There have just been too many men in my house this week.  The place is teaming with testosterone.  The men are very nice, but they are just so, so, masculine.   They joke around, laugh loudly, bang things, operate really loud machinery, and generally just do not act like women.  Sophie just about can't stand it.  First of all, she doesn't care for strange men.  Second, she abhors banging (remember when she bit me on the butt when I was smashing garlic?).  Third, she finds long sticks, boards, brooms and things of that sort extremely threatening.  As a result, she has spent much of the week in her dog crate and is very grumpy about it. 

I just let her out for a split second Tuesday and she got into all sorts of trouble.

Today she kept me company in the sewing room while I worked on Big Madeline. 

 

I have made almost all the 25 blocks, but didn't have room to lay them all out.  My floor space is all occupied by men with flooring boards, don't you know.  I had room in the guest bath to lay out nine of the blocks.  It looks just like the Madeline Schnibble, only bigger!  My blocks are 12 inches unfinished.   Kind of a weird size, but it doesn't really matter, since it is a straight set and can be any old size top I want it to be.  I have to start considering ideas for the border.  Since I have decided to use my leftover fabrics to make Elizabeth (another Miss Rosie pattern), I don't want to use my scraps for a border, even though I love the look.  I may have enough of the large red floral print (my favorite) to be the border for Madeline.

I might just finish this project this week, while I keep busy staying out of the way of the workmen who are in every other room of the house.

Comments

[Karen]

The blocks are so beautiful! Nothing like being holed up in the sewing room to get some work done.

[Kate]

Your blocks are looking great! I really love that fabric line.

Gives a whole other meaning to peeing in the shower!

[Nancy, Near Philadelphia]

So pretty.

[Mary Flynn]

Madeline all grown up...love it!

[Wendy]

I have to finish Elizabeth before I start another!! I'm off work today and I'm so tempted to start something else...like a grown up Madeline!

[Cara]

OH it looks lovely! I can't wait to see the finished thing.
Poor Sophie..I can only imagine. My pups are upset if they're locked up for a few hours.

[Michelle]

This is so beautiful. I always love seeing what you make.

[Lee]

looks great. the best thing about renos is that you don't have to clean while the work is being done...more time for sewing!

[Paulette Doyle]

Madeline is looking gorgeous!! Just stay in the sewing room and turn the music up! Happy stitching!
Paulette

[Jayne Honnold]

I have a healthy stash of Rouenneries (sp?) and I just haven't found the "right" idea for it yet. Your big 12" stars are looking mighty good - maybe I'm closer than I think to cutting into that stash! Great look - the stars, not the bathroom!! lol

Jayne

[Yvette]

I have a baby Madeline to make in those exact fabrics. Now I want a jumbo one too!

You could really multi task in that bathroom. LOL

[Nancy in WI]

It's looking great Nicole! Poor little Sophie......soon she will have the run of the house again. Nancy in WI

[call me crazy]

Beautiful! Sorry Sophie is having such a hard time~ watch your rear end! ;-)

[Cathy McMann]

I'm loving that Big Madeline! I might have to do something similar with my bundle of Rural Jardin.

[Carol]

Poor, Poor Sophie...your big Madeline is just beautiful! Love it!

[Shelley dionne]

Oh Nicole! I want it I want it I want it!LOL! So much red! Love it!

[Laura]

Very pretty!

[Mary on Lake Pulaski]

So, so pretty Nicole!

[Susan Ramey Cleveland]

THe idea (first photo) is interesting. It would save time.

[Wendy P]

The tile looks great. The toilet in the shower could be handy if you are in a rush, I guess. LOL

I think a lot of us are thinking "Madeleine Grows Up" is a better title for your WIP. Big Madeleine sounds like a woman who could put a hurt on you!

[dorothy]

this is going to be a gorgeous quilt!!! i'm also stash-piling (oh, that's a good new word!) the french general fabrics but i don't think i have enuf reds like you do (because of course i want to copy it!)

[Suzy]

Beautiful! I so love that line of fabrics! :o)

[Miss Jean]

That makes me want to run right out and get more Rounerries fabric. Big Madeline is going to be beautiful.

Toilet in the shower. Now why didn't I think of that....

[Allyson]

Oh wow, you're making such quick progress. Loud, obnoxious, banging men should be tearing your house up every week. You get lots done when you're holed up in your sewing room taking refuge.

Sophie sounds like she's a wreck. I can only imagine her, warily eyeing those men, with all their boards, thinking of ways she can destroy them. Or at the very least, chew up their jackhammer cords and quiet the place down. Bless her heart.

[Elizabeth]

I had to laugh at the sight of the toilet in the shower--thinking for a split second that this was intentional, then it hit me. We are getting bids for our bathroom remodel and I'm scared spitless. Knowing that you were able to still put together some beautiful blocks allows me to press forward with a little less fear. Great post!