Two for the price of one

Okay, so there's not going to be a picture today. I really like to try to put them up because I love looking at photos of other people's work, so I figure you do too. But I don't think today's experiment would photograph at all. Too reflective. What was it you ask? A couple of days ago I tried my hand at making a little quilt top using Ricky Tims' book Convergence Quilts. Guess it's been a while since I quilted and it showed. Of course using scraps that I had no clue which grain was which probably didn't help. Anyhow, I cut the top into 3 postcards (told you it was a little quilt top) and then did some silhouette type applique work on them. Liked two of them, didn't care for one. So I took the one I didn't like and covered it with this pink color-changing cellophane, you know, the stuff you get to wrap around baskets and gifts. Then I free motion embroidered on top of it to hold it in place, zapped it with my heat gun, and waited for the magic. Magic didn't happen - it didn't melt. It did tighten up some around the stitching though. Maybe cellophane doesn't melt or maybe my heat gun doesn't get hot enough. Dunno. What I do have now though is a card that looks totally different depending on how you hold it up to the light - kind of holographic. Tilt it one way and you see the cellophane and the stitching, tilt it another and you can see the work beneath it. Very cool! See - there's never mistakes, only opportunities!