Last year I was over the moon about getting to visit a quilt shop in Seattle where one of my blogging "friends" teaches. Jay was a super good sport about going out of our way as I slowly paroozed the store until I found something that I was happy with. 
My biggest mistake was when we put the house on the market a couple months ago I wanted something to fill the wall space above my sewing machine. So, very quickly I threw together this quilt. I had in my mind what I wanted, it just did not turn out right. Combine that with some bad accent color choices, a poor quilting job and hanging it up the cheapest way I could. It was bad, real bad.
I was embarrassed anytime someone came into the office and looked at it. I was also sick of Jay bugging me about the embroidery I did on it. I call the vacations our Mr. and Mrs. trips and he says that it seems that we won some beauty pageant or something. Anyways, the quilt had to go! I didn't want people thinking this is my usual work...
So, I decided to trash it. I started cutting and playing with the fabric a bit. I got two blank canvases from Michaals for cheap and decided to do some decoupaging. It has been since Christmas, I think the decoupage missed me! First, I laid out the pieces.
And then started gluing.
I like this better than the quilt.
All of the fabric is from the quilt, except for the space needle. I left the batting in the petals of the flower to make them have some depth. The flower is suppose to be the state flower of Washington, the rhododendron. I am calling it artistic perspective, also known as I have no clue how to make a rhododendron from fabric!
It fills up the space in the office just as well and I am glad that ugly quilt is not glaring down at me anymore! It was a mean quilt.
-melissa